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

[aspin]

My grandfather was one of 16 the first baby born 1878 and the last 1900
Poor woman must have been pregnant for about 22 years
Elizabeth
By the way they didn't all live

[Gaille]

My gt-gt-grandma had 16 children ......... including THREE sets of male/Female twins!

I think she may have had more children because there are 'gaps' in the birth pattern, but I havent found any evidence yet.

Gaille

[deebel]

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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feodor_Vassilyev

Apparently his wife holds the record

[Lloydy]

   

[Cell]

 Hi,
I have ( well hubby's maternal line,  his g ,g grandparents) 13  children  (with no twins amongst them) who survived to adulthood. 
 I don't know if there were any still births  so the figure may be very slightly  higher than that, we'll never know .  They lived in a  terraced house with just  two bedrooms - the mind boggles at the the liviing conditions.

 The woman deserved a gold medal , or her hubby should have put a sock on it( I don't know which )   Maybe it was all the oysters that  they ate ( he was an oysterdredger)  I guess  it was one of the main foods  in their household (ladies stay away from oysters! )

Poor woman, rather her than me . There couldn't have been a year gone when she was not pregnant  ( needless to say she  died  before her  husband )

Kind regards

[Rishile]

There were sixteen children born to one couple in my family.  One of those children went on to have 16 children too.  Unfortuntely they do not lead to many descendents as some died young, others didn't appear to marry or had no children.

[Sharon01]

My gg grandmother had 17 of which 7 died and her daughter my g grandmother had 12 of which 10 survived into adulthood.

Sharon

[Lal]

The photo on the left here is of my great-great-grandparents Enoch and Hannah (and a few of their children and a grandchild) who had 13 children and lived in a four room cottage - all of them grew up and most of them had more children of their own! Hannah was having children between the ages of 17 and 43 - no twins - and lived to her 80s. Two of their daughters had families of 8 and 11. The odd thing is that only one of their sons had children!

Enoch was one of 11 children, and his brother Mark also had 11 children, but sadly not all of Mark's lived, and I suspect TB got some of them going by their ages

I've also found that Hannah's grandfather had 10 children. Out of these, Hannah's aunts and uncles, there were two families of ten, one of none, and one of fourteen.

I'm not even finished with looking them all up, either, which is good as they fascinate me. It must have been all the good, fresh air out around Martin Mere

[coombs]

I know a wife of an ancestors brother who had 14 children. One set of twins.