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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: Peterjay on Tuesday 08 February 11 20:12 GMT (UK)
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Hi,
Would be interesting to know the greatest amount of children born to one couple, I have a couple with 16 kids, can anyone beat it.
Peter.
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yep i can 20 ;D
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Twenty-two!
And the mother lived to a ripe old age.
Jen ;D
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19 for one couple
17 for another - all born in New Zealand, all documented and I'm sure you can imagine how many descendents there are.....been in contact with several :)
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Wow, but did they all survive? The most I have on my tree is 16 to one couple, but nine of the children died in infancy, so there aren't actually that many descendants.
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In my New Zealand family of 17 children, 2 died in infancy while all the others lived well into adulthood. Their father was from a family of 14!!!
What a huge Christmas card list ;D
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My hubby lived next door to a family of 22 children on one side and on the other side a family of 19. This is in Quebec.
Cheers
Anne
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Wow, but did they all survive?
I'd need to be looking at my tree to be sure but I believe all but one or two of my family of twenty-two survived into adulthood.
I'm not on my own computer tonight but will check when I get home.
Jen
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Thirty-two, apparently, although I've only found proper documentary evidence for 21. And for the record the mother of all those children outlived the father by some 14 years. He was 80 when he died, but I don't know her age. The figure of thirty-two comes from several biographical sources, but I suppose they might all be based on the same original.
Nell
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My grandfather was one of 16 the first baby born 1878 and the last 1900
Poor woman must have been pregnant for about 22 years
Elizabeth
By the way they didn't all live
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My gt-gt-grandma had 16 children ......... including THREE sets of male/Female twins!
I think she may have had more children because there are 'gaps' in the birth pattern, but I havent found any evidence yet.
Gaille
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Hi,
Would be interesting to know the greatest amount of children born to one couple, I have a couple with 16 kids, can anyone beat it.
Peter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feodor_Vassilyev
Apparently his wife holds the record
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:o :o :o :o :o :o ;D
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Hi,
I have ( well hubby's maternal line, his g ,g grandparents) 13 children (with no twins amongst them) who survived to adulthood.
I don't know if there were any still births so the figure may be very slightly higher than that, we'll never know . They lived in a terraced house with just two bedrooms - the mind boggles at the the liviing conditions.
The woman deserved a gold medal , or her hubby should have put a sock on it( I don't know which ;D) Maybe it was all the oysters that they ate ( he was an oysterdredger) I guess it was one of the main foods in their household (ladies stay away from oysters! )
Poor woman, rather her than me . There couldn't have been a year gone when she was not pregnant ( needless to say she died before her husband )
Kind regards
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There were sixteen children born to one couple in my family. One of those children went on to have 16 children too. Unfortuntely they do not lead to many descendents as some died young, others didn't appear to marry or had no children.
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My gg grandmother had 17 of which 7 died and her daughter my g grandmother had 12 of which 10 survived into adulthood.
Sharon
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The photo on the left here is of my great-great-grandparents Enoch and Hannah (and a few of their children and a grandchild) who had 13 children and lived in a four room cottage - all of them grew up and most of them had more children of their own! Hannah was having children between the ages of 17 and 43 - no twins - and lived to her 80s. Two of their daughters had families of 8 and 11. The odd thing is that only one of their sons had children!
Enoch was one of 11 children, and his brother Mark also had 11 children, but sadly not all of Mark's lived, and I suspect TB got some of them going by their ages :(
I've also found that Hannah's grandfather had 10 children. Out of these, Hannah's aunts and uncles, there were two families of ten, one of none, and one of fourteen.
I'm not even finished with looking them all up, either, which is good as they fascinate me. It must have been all the good, fresh air out around Martin Mere ;)
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I know a wife of an ancestors brother who had 14 children. One set of twins.
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My G G Grandmother Sarah Ledson was 88 when she died of ‘paraplexy’ at Woodyard on 5 June 1852: according to the
Liverpool Mercury she left ‘13 children, 91 grandchildren and 108 great-grandchildren’.
So still trying to find out if she had more than 13 children and did any die, wonder if she could remember all their names? ;D
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My Great Grandfather 11 children of which 7 survived to adult hood 1st born in scotland in oct 1874 last born 13 feb 1902 all to the same wife and his brother had 16 at minmi in NSW unfortunately on 6 survived to adult hood
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Wow,lots of mine have 10 and I thought that was a lot.Reading some of these I realise they were almost celibate ;D
George.
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What fastinates me is how small the houses were and how many children lived there. Where I was born we had a small house that held us four (2 kids 2 parents) and that was OK but I was told Mrs E down the road had 8 children in there. How! Top n Tail in bed I was told. When one of the eldest was getting married they were so excited as it meant more bed for the rest.
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My family of 13 were born between 1868 and 1894, and there was no point when they all lived in the house at the same time. When they got to about 12 they all seem to have gone to 'live out' and work as farm servants and labourers, though none of them went very far, at most a mile or two from home. And I understand the old cottage was surrounded by all kinds of outbuildings and sheds so no doubt there was room to go off and sit on your own. They probably had a relaxed attitude to the idea of 'privacy' anyway - their numbers kept being added to by the extra babies that some of the girls produced!