How Many?

[Just Kia]

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 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!

[LindaJ1959]

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!

[toni*]

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

[wildtech]

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.

[stoney]

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!!!!! 


Stoney

[Filiem]

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 

[Gaille]

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 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

[Eyesee]

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

[toni*]

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