Largest family you have found

[Andrew Tarr]

These family 'records' are all very well (and the Olympics are on, aren't they - was it an endurance event?) but I think this thread started with a present-day couple trying to win the event.  As I said earlier, 19th-c people had several reasons to.  I don't understand why any family does these days.  Much of the time we are hearing about population pressure, but at the individual level most people shrug and say 'how wonderful'.

Bah, humbug.  But straws and camels, I say.

[pharmaT]

The family of 18 in my tree are from the  20th century. If you only want those who were having children into the 21st century then the biggest is 10.

[conahy calling]

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=435826.

Link to thread "Michael Fenlon - 3 wives" on Wexford board

    1st wife        Mary Ouselm        24 children
     2nd            Margaret Murphy    16
     3rd              Mary Murphy         20

Michael died aged  99 yrs  Jan 11th   1900

[Gadget]

I can't go any higher than 13 - my staunch Welsh Methodist grt grandparents.  My second cousin, who knew them as a young boy, told me that they looked vey strange together - his taid was a tall thin man and  his nain was about about 4ft 10 ins and fairly plump 

[marcie dean]

ny husbands marsh family, parents had16 children and their youngest but one had twentythree one of her children died, she started having children aged 16, his name was bertie he died, she moved to aus after her first husband died he was a lot older than she was, remarried and had another 2 or three, possibly more than thatbut we lost touch with the family and the only historian in my husbands family died so could not ask anything anymore.
we were in touvch with family members in aus for a while. but no longer

[mijath]

My 3 x great grandparents in the patrilineal line.

16 children born between 1835 and 1859, including one set of twins. I think the most remarkable thing is that 12 of the children lived to adulthood and married. Oddly, the four who died were daughters called Mary Ann, Mary Ann and the twins, Mary...and Ann.

[barryd]

15 children of Michael Wilson Heaviside, VC. Children born between 1906-1930. Michael  was born in Durham City and died Craghead, County Durham. Wife Elizabeth Draper.

[marcie dean]

the youngest daughter of my husbands marsh family insouthsea was one of 14 and she added to that family by the time she emigrated to aus d, she had had 21 childtrn from the age of 16 pregnant from the age of 15 her husband died in aus aand she remarried domeone v=called silvestri and had another three with jimi, before she was 45

[jaybelnz]

One of my 3 x great grandfathers, a coal miner,  married 3 times, at his first marriage he was 19.  He died at 51, having fathered 11 children.