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Daisy and Violet Hilton

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| label1 = Born | data1 = 5 February 1908
Brighton, England

| label2 = Died | data2 = 4/8 January 1969 (aged 60)
Charlotte, North Carolina

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| label14 = Occupation | class14 = role | data14 = Entertainers, grocery store clerks The girls were born in Brighton, England (East Sussex) on 5 February 1908. Their mother was a single barmaid named Kate Skinner. The sisters were born joined by their hips and buttocks; they shared blood circulation and were fused at the pelvis but shared no major organs. Skinner's boss Mary Hilton, who helped in childbirth, apparently saw commercial prospects in them, and thus effectively bought them from their mother and took them under her care. The girls first stayed above the Queens Head in Brighton, but later moved to the Evening Star.

According to the sisters' autobiography, Mary Hilton with her husband and daughter kept the twins in strict control with physical abuse; they had to call her "Auntie Lou" and her current husband "Sir". They trained the girls in singing and dancing.