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Offline NettieS

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Re: 40 year old woman giving birth in the 1700s?
« Reply #18 on: Monday 13 April 15 13:37 BST (UK) »

One of my great grandmothers was 19 when she had her first child and 46 when her last child was born, the other one was 24 when her first child was born and 41 when her last one was born.
Bramwell -  Derbyshire and Bolton
Pottinger -  Gloucestershire, Berkshire
James- Gloucestershire
Rawley, Wheeler - Middlesex
Nicholls, Nichols -  Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire
Lee, Porter - Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire
Bowers, Coxall, Coe, Dawkins, Hawkins, Horspoole, Rule - Cambridgeshire
Stoughton - Bedfordshire
Stewart - Stirlingshire,  Glasgow and Edingburgh
Tulloch - Orkney Islands
Liddell - Stirlingshire, Lanarkshire
Tulloch, Wilson, Stevenson, Baxter, Muir, Boag - Scotland

Offline Galium

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Re: 40 year old woman giving birth in the 1700s?
« Reply #19 on: Monday 13 April 15 14:56 BST (UK) »
Among the families I am researching, from the early 18thC up until the early 20thC most women bore their last child when they were  43-45, occasionally later. 
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