What's your highest number of children born to a couple

[Peterjay]

Hi,
Would be interesting to know the greatest amount of children born to one couple, I have a couple with 16 kids, can anyone beat it.
Peter.

[jane l]

yep i can 20 

[genjen]

Twenty-two!

And the mother lived to a ripe old age.

Jen

[Lloydy]

19 for one couple

17 for another - all born in New Zealand, all documented and I'm sure you can imagine how many descendents there are.....been in contact with several

[Alexander.]

Wow, but did they all survive? The most I have on my tree is 16 to one couple, but nine of the children died in infancy, so there aren't actually that many descendants.

[Lloydy]

In my New Zealand family of 17 children, 2 died in infancy while all the others lived well into adulthood.  Their father was from a family of 14!!!

What a huge Christmas card list

[AnneMc]

My hubby lived next door to a family of 22 children  on one side and on the other side a family of 19. This is in Quebec.

Cheers
Anne

[genjen]

Wow, but did they all survive?

I'd need to be looking at my tree to be sure but I believe all but one or two of my family of twenty-two survived into adulthood.

I'm not on my own computer tonight but will check when I get home.

Jen

[Little Nell]

Thirty-two, apparently, although I've only found proper documentary evidence for 21.  And for the record the mother of all those children outlived the father by some 14 years.  He was 80 when he died, but I don't know her age.  The figure of thirty-two comes from several biographical sources, but I suppose they might all be based on the same original.

Nell