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

[busylizzie123]

My G G Grandmother Sarah Ledson was 88 when she died of ‘paraplexy’ at Woodyard on 5 June 1852: according to the
Liverpool Mercury she left ‘13 children, 91 grandchildren and 108 great-grandchildren’.

So still trying to find out if she had more than 13 children and did any die, wonder if she could remember all their names?

[fredthompson]

My Great Grandfather  11 children of which 7 survived to adult hood 1st born in scotland in oct 1874 last born 13 feb 1902 all to the same wife and his brother had 16 at minmi in NSW unfortunately on 6 survived to adult hood

[Seoras]

Wow,lots of mine have 10 and I thought that was a lot.Reading some of these I realise they were almost celibate

George.

[traceypat]

What fastinates me is how small the houses were and  how many children lived there.  Where I was born we had a small house that held us four (2 kids 2 parents) and that was OK but I was told Mrs E down the road had 8 children in there. How!   Top n Tail in bed I was told. When one of the eldest was getting married they were so excited as it meant more bed for the rest.

[Lal]

My family of 13 were born between 1868 and 1894, and there was no point when they all lived in the house at the same time. When they got to about 12 they all seem to have gone to 'live out' and work as farm servants and labourers, though none of them went very far, at most a mile or two from home. And I understand the old cottage was surrounded by all kinds of outbuildings and sheds so no doubt there was room to go off and sit on your own. They probably had a relaxed attitude to the idea of 'privacy' anyway - their numbers kept being added to by the extra babies that some of the girls produced!