Largest Family

[sue 1950]

My gt gt grandparent's had 16, gt gt grandad was only an ag lab.

[patrish]

Must have been all that fresh air Sue.!!!!!!!

[carol8353]

My husband's aunt,on a farm in Co Clare Ireland,had 12 children from the 1940s to the 60's.Thank goodness her sister,my mother in law,moved to England .She ONLY had 5. 

Carol

[pipkim]

I can't top those births, but my GG Grandmother had 10 children to my knowledge, 3 girls and 7 boys between 1860 and 1886, and enough gaps to add a few more.

Lucky the didn't have RootsChat there wouldn't be enough time! 

Pipkim

[patrish]

 How true !!!

[wotty]

My great great great grandmother had 13 children between 1837 and 1860. Of the 7 boys, there is only one that I haven't traced to adulthood but the girls are proving harder to find (because of not knowing who they married - yet).
She was the wife of a farm worker, but it seems to have taken its toll on her as she died in her 40s.

Wotty

[mimosa]

Hi

Always remember my grandad telling me about his sister who was born in 1884
having 25 children, he says he would go round with half a crown and come away with nothing. Always found this hard to believe but my mum backed it up.
All I can say if this was true is WOW  poor women and I cant wait for the next census to check all out.

Mimosa

[Comosus]

Well some would be born after the 1921 census

[russethouse]

In my husbands line he has a Martha De Gilbert(b 1737-38) and Capt William Henry Guyon who had 20 children, what surprised me that having called a boy John, when he died they recycled the name !!! No wonder we get confused !