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My 3x great grandfather was born in 1807. He married at 19and had his first child when he was 20 (and my 2x great grandfather in 1830 when he was 22).

He went on to have 24 children with 2 wives - the last child born in 1882 when he was 75 and his second much younger wife was 42.

That last daughter lived to be 87, and died in 1970.

The father was born in 1807 and the daughter died in 1970. A span of 163 years.

According to family lore there was no doubt in the family that they were all his children.

Quote from: Alison Terao on Tuesday 09 August 16 12:37 BST (UK)

One of my ancestors had 25 children.

He died at 85 with all his faculties intact.

Some more than others, by the look of it .... 

My father's maiden aunt - his g-granddaughter  (herself one of 11 - 10 surviving who she raised when her mother died) used to say "they should have put a blue ribbon on it"

Well it's a little darker than that because in one case she was assigned to him from the "female factory" in Paramatta.
This doesn't mean she didn't choose it though, because contemporary accounts talk about new arrived convict women angling to be assigned to good prospects, who had been pardoned and had land.

I'm surprised that Band is an unusual surname in the area as I'm also looking for Bands, and in particular Robert Band.

I'm tracing back from a Robert Band born 1800 in Dairsie who married Isabella Cunningham and emmigrated to Australia in the 1850s.

This Robert Band is the son of Robert Band and Elizabeth Peddie.

Robert Band married Elizabeth Peddie in Monmail in 1799.

This Robert Band may be the one born in 1758 in Kilrenny to James Band and Elizabeth Band. That makes him 41 at his marriage, which though old isn't impossible, especially if it's a second marriage.