Amazing as couple born same day, same hospital, same ward, went to same school reunite via Facebook and got married after 50 years

Indeed Facebook is the social media of the century for its ingenuity in uniting and reuniting friends, and families whom hitherto may have been possible.

The latest of such is a couple that were born on the same day, at the same hospital, same ward became husband and wife after being hooked up again via Facebook after 50 years.

According to report, Alison Blackwell and James Hodges were both born just metres apart at the Berkeley Hospital in Gloucestershire in 1967.

The pair were in the same class at Cam Hopton Primary School but lost contact after James moved school when he turned eight. But with the help of Facebook, almost five decades later, the pair managed to reconnect using Friends Reunited after James sent a light-hearted message asking Alison the date of her birthday in 2012.

Alison said: ‘He said hi and asked me when my birthday was – obviously knowing full well when it was. We arranged to meet a few days after Christmas and then started seeing each other soon after.

‘We’ve been together ever since.’

Alison’s mother Isabel Denning gave birth on the same day as James’ mother Linda Hodges, on February 3, 1967, before she passed away eight years later.

After his dad remarried due to the death of his mother, wool machinist James moved away, and they occasionally bumped into each other a few times over the years, politely saying hello.

Alison, a mother-of-two, got married when she was 21, but divorced ten years later.

She said: ‘People say it’s destiny that we ended up together because we have so many connections. It is absolutely destined to be.

‘James hasn’t stopped grinning since the wedding.’

James burst the question in September 2015 while the pair were on holiday in Devon and they married at Cam Methodist Church on February 4.

To add more colour to the touching wedding ceremony, their teacher presented them with an old class photo.

James said: ‘People ask when we met and when we say “on the day we were born”, they are shocked.’

‘We could have been in beds next to each other – we really don’t know,’ Alison added.

They both joined Cam Hopton Primary School in Dursley, Gloucestershire, at the age of four, and Alison said her first memory of James is his ’round faced little boy’.

She also said: ‘I remember him being in my class and being aware that his mum had died. I remember feeling really sorry for him and not imagining what it would be like.’

James added: ‘I just remember her really kind smile. That always stayed with me – and it’s still the same today. So many people have said to us how crazy they think our story is.