How Many?

[Mark1973]

Afraid i only have a man in my tree who fathered 18, 8 with his 1st wife & 10 with his 2nd.

[Comosus]

The Guinness World Record for the most number of children born to a single woman is an unbelievable 69. In my tree it's in the order of about 15. For my direct ancestors it's more like 12.

[Just Kia]

The 69 was a Russian peasant woman from 1725-1765 she apparently gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets.

I know a woman who lived near where I grew up used to be the record holder for number of live births all surviving to adulthood (I don't know if she still is) with, I think, about 25-28.
I not 100% sure if it was a UK only record or not, and I think it was all single births.

[pistonbroke]

My 3xgt grandmother was 1 of 16 born between 1856 - 1884, no multiples or stillbirths but only 10 made it to adulthood.
 Paternal grandfather was 1 of 13 born between 1900-1918 all survived most of them making it past 80.
My mum is 1 of 10 all living the eldest is 83 & the youngest is 58.

Vicki

[Midlanders]

My G. uncle John Hill and G. aunt Theresa (nee Martin) born 1879, married in West Brom then moved to Newport, Monmouthshire and had 10 children.. John, Ethel, Florence, Francis, Stephen, Olive, Joseph, Arthur, Leonard and Martha.
On a weeks visit there, my parents said at a family gathering there were about a dozen persons sitting around the large, white-scrubbed table. G. aunt Theresa always said a little Prayer before every meal 'For what we are about to receive' etc, and another one after 'For what we have received' etc.
Mum used to say she rather mumbled it though, then whispered something even more difficult to hear which thought may have been - Dear Lord, please don't let me have any more children!
Midlanders

[ritchiewilk]

On the Wilkinson branch of my tree I have a g-g-grandfather, Samuel,  who had 9 children to two wives.  His eldest son Samuel  had 8 children to two wives and his second son, William my g-grandfather,  had 11 children to two wives.

Another g-g-grandfather, George Edmondson had one wife and they had 10 children.  His brother, Richard beat him with 11 children to one wife.

James Cairncross, another g-g-grandfather had one wife and they had 8 children.

On another branch that I have just started looking into I have a g-g-g-grandfather Hogg who had 11 children to one wife.

My mother is one of 6 children and her father Stewart Young was on of 8 children.

All of these relatives come from Roxburghshire, Scotland.  Must have been something in the water.

Ritchie

[Duck]

My Grandad was one of thirteen, twelve boys and one girl, they all survived into adulthood.  Having seen the small terrace house they were born and brought up in, it must have been extremely chaotic.

[jobarnes]

my grandad was one of 12 and they are all still alive and his dad was one of 14 and one of his sisters is still alive she is 93 I think - still looking though

Jo