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I know there have been similar topics but...
What is the greatest number of children you have to one woman, all surviving into adulthood?
Just today I have discovered my 4xG Uncle (or should that be my 3xG grand-uncle?) and his wife had 17 :o children between 1871 and 1893 with all of them still alive according to the 1911 census (of course I can only find 16 but what's new LOL).
17 children in 22 years? Poor woman!
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My 3xG Aunt Mary claims, on the 1911 census, to have had 20 children (this would be between 1871 and 1900) born alive, and 17 still living, but I've only been able to find 15 so far. These include one born two years before she married, and three or four (not quite sure yet) born to a third man after her husband ran off and married another woman bigamously. She eventually married this man (after her husband had died), and died in 1938, aged 85!!
Linda
Added at 13.25: I've just found another one, so that's 16. Four to go, if Mary was telling the truth!
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i haven't found but my nan claims she was one of 13 children my uncle can name 7 and my dad says she had 7 brothers the 7 brothers are different to the 7 that my uncle can name so that brings us to 9 including my nan on the 1911 census my nan is one of 8 all surviving and there was a child born in 1915
the 9 that my dad and uncle can name between them
so what about the others ?
my great nan was still alive early 1950's but i doubt she was having children then being born in 1870's
so 9 surviving isn't a great amount but
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One family with 14 children born between 1788 and 1805, one definite set of twins with possibly two others. Two of the children died in childhood.
Another family of 15 children born between 1806 and 1836 with probably one set of twins and one stillborn with 14 surviving to adulthood. The 4th child of this family was my 3rd great grandmother, wife of the gentleman in my avatar
A third family of 13 children born between 1849 and 1872 all surviving to adulthood and NO TWINS.
Also a family of 11 born between 1866 and 1884 all surviving to adulthood.
Those are the families I remember from my tree but there are 301 - or so the software says
My mother-in-law's father was one of thirteen and she can name them all but I have yet to record that side of the family.
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My maternal Grandfather was one of 15 - all "live" births and no multiples!
And my maternal Grandmother was one of 10!
Lots of great Aunts and Uncles!!!!! :o
Stoney
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I have a family with 13 children, all but 1 surviving into adulthood.
In fact I have quite a lot of large (10 plus children) families in the mid 1800s, mainly the ag lab families. I just wonder how they all manged to fit in the same house ;D
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I know there have been similar topics but...
What is the greatest number of children you have to one woman, all surviving into adulthood?
Just today I have discovered my 4xG Uncle (or should that be my 3xG grand-uncle?) and his wife had 17 :o children between 1871 and 1893 with all of them still alive according to the 1911 census (of course I can only find 16 but what's new LOL).
17 children in 22 years? Poor woman!
My Nana was one of 11 - all except 1 survived
HER mother was one of 13 .......... our of those there were THREE sets of Male/Female twins (all verified as twins in the records)........... 11 of the children survived until adulthood - the ones that didnt survive were 2 twins - different sets.
I think there may be at least 2 children I havent found yet tho - theres 3 big gaps in the family I suspect should have a childs birth in.
Gaille
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My g-g-grandparents, the guy in my sig photo being my g-g-grandfather, had 18 children from 1847 to 1873. The first 9 were born in India and the second 9 in England. But they only took 5 of the first nine back to England, the other 4 died as babies or small children in India.
In one of my other lines one couple had 19, in NZ, from 1843 to 1871. She was 15 when she had the first. Family stories suggest there had been 22, and there is enough of a gap between some for this to have occurred. They must have been stillbirths or miscarriages as there were only 19 registered. They all lived to adulhood as well, except one son who was accidentally killed. Two older sisters of hers had 14 and 12 each, and two younger sisters had 10 and 15 each, and a younger brother had 11. Duncan and Marjory FRASER were the parents of this lot and they were each one of fifteen children and they had 15 themselves. Marjory was still having them when her four eldest daughters were starting to have theirs.
Ian C
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i haven't found but my nan claims she was one of 13 children my uncle can name 7 and my dad says she had 7 brothers the 7 brothers are different to the 7 that my uncle can name so that brings us to 9 including my nan on the 1911 census my nan is one of 8 all surviving and there was a child born in 1915
the 9 that my dad and uncle can name between them
so what about the others ?
my great nan was still alive early 1950's but i doubt she was having children then being born in 1870's
so 9 surviving isn't a great amount but
i forgot to say tht is if Jinny was Mary otherwise that would be another child and David we cant find a birth for him but he did exist so maybe thats 10
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Afraid i only have a man in my tree who fathered 18, 8 with his 1st wife & 10 with his 2nd.
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The Guinness World Record for the most number of children born to a single woman is an unbelievable 69. In my tree it's in the order of about 15. For my direct ancestors it's more like 12.
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The 69 was a Russian peasant woman from 1725-1765 she apparently gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets.
I know a woman who lived near where I grew up used to be the record holder for number of live births all surviving to adulthood (I don't know if she still is) with, I think, about 25-28.
I not 100% sure if it was a UK only record or not, and I think it was all single births.
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My 3xgt grandmother was 1 of 16 born between 1856 - 1884, no multiples or stillbirths but only 10 made it to adulthood.
Paternal grandfather was 1 of 13 born between 1900-1918 all survived most of them making it past 80.
My mum is 1 of 10 all living the eldest is 83 & the youngest is 58.
Vicki
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My G. uncle John Hill and G. aunt Theresa (nee Martin) born 1879, married in West Brom then moved to Newport, Monmouthshire and had 10 children.. John, Ethel, Florence, Francis, Stephen, Olive, Joseph, Arthur, Leonard and Martha.
On a weeks visit there, my parents said at a family gathering there were about a dozen persons sitting around the large, white-scrubbed table. G. aunt Theresa always said a little Prayer before every meal 'For what we are about to receive' etc, and another one after 'For what we have received' etc.
Mum used to say she rather mumbled it though, then whispered something even more difficult to hear which thought may have been - Dear Lord, please don't let me have any more children! ;D
Midlanders
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On the Wilkinson branch of my tree I have a g-g-grandfather, Samuel, who had 9 children to two wives. His eldest son Samuel had 8 children to two wives and his second son, William my g-grandfather, had 11 children to two wives.
Another g-g-grandfather, George Edmondson had one wife and they had 10 children. His brother, Richard beat him with 11 children to one wife.
James Cairncross, another g-g-grandfather had one wife and they had 8 children.
On another branch that I have just started looking into I have a g-g-g-grandfather Hogg who had 11 children to one wife.
My mother is one of 6 children and her father Stewart Young was on of 8 children.
All of these relatives come from Roxburghshire, Scotland. Must have been something in the water. :)
Ritchie
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My Grandad was one of thirteen, twelve boys and one girl, they all survived into adulthood. Having seen the small terrace house they were born and brought up in, it must have been extremely chaotic.
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my grandad was one of 12 and they are all still alive and his dad was one of 14 and one of his sisters is still alive she is 93 I think - still looking though
Jo