Large gaps between d.o.b. of a grandparent and one of his/her grandchildren.

[Keith Sherwood]

Absolutely correct, Carmela!
I hadn't been paying attention properly at the back of the class as usual...
Gold medal position for you on both counts at the moment, unless someone else comes along with a set of circumstances even more outrageous.
I'll hang on for now to the booby prize for three generations born consecutively in the 17th, 18th and 19th C, then.
keith

[Redroger]

I hope everyone realizes that in years to come the thread will be the opposite of this one. With all these teenage pregnancies these days, the thread will be something like: "how many generations in a century".   

It already is in a lot of cases, my daughter who is a teacher, and a colleague who is a NTA at the same school both took their 4 year olds to see a children's play recently. Both of them are in their 40s, one of them is a grandmother already.

[pinefamily]

Here in Australia, the government is probably partly to blame. About 17 years ago, they brought in a scheme designed to encourage the falling birthrate, a baby bonus. The only problem is, you get the same amount EVERY time you have a baby. And the worse part of it is the fact that it is the welfare-reliant section of society that is pumping them out at a rate of knots.

[pinefamily]

Sorry, my soapbox has probably gone off-topic. 

[johngirl]

My Grandfather Herbert Henry Isaac was born in Toxteth Park Liverpool in 1874 and I his youngest Grandaughter was born in Tasmania in 1958.My Father Terence bieng the youngest of eleven children was born 25 years after his first sibling was born.

  Johngirl

[pinefamily]

That could be the start of another thread maybe: the gap between oldest and youngest children.

[Keith Sherwood]

Darren,
I think that, as a theme, this has already been explored somewhere on Rootschat - I seem to remember I started a thread when I discovered that my gt-grandma Annie Sherwood (nee MILES) had given birth to NINE consecutive boys as a gentle start to producing and rearing children in the late 1870's.  The challenge was then to discover if anyone had experienced a larger number of consecutive same gender births in their own family, and this then evolved into which woman had managed to keep giving birth to children for the longest number of years.
If I remember correctly, it was in excess of 30 years, extraordinary...
keith
N.B. The length in years between oldest and youngest sibling in a generation, and then also someone marrying and producing children late in their own life are the two factors that produce the large gaps between d.o.b. of a grandparent and one of of his/her grandchildren, of course...
...very naughty of me, because this is off topic somewhat, but my gt-grandma Annie had her first child in 1878, aged a mere 15 (she 2 years later married the father) and until recently I thought her last birth was twins in 1903.  But I have recently discovered that she had a baby boy called Nelson in 1907.  After that, I reckon she'd "done her duty"....no offence to our great Admiral intended...!

[Redroger]

Not so much a gap as an unusual family spacing, my wife's great grandfather, named unfortunately John Smith was the only boy in a family of seven, there were three girls followed by him, then three more girls! Never seen a spacing like that anywhere else.

[pinefamily]

Reading both of your last posts started me thinking.
I wonder what the record is for the largest number of same sex children in one family. Roger has mentioned 6, Keith nine (or were there more?). My own father was the youngest of 10 children, nine of which were boys. Sadly my auntie was the last to pass away. I think it broke her heart to see all of her brothers go before her.

So, do we have any takers on this one?