Who is your most profilic ancestor ?

[danuslave]

Great grandmother Ellen. 

Married at 16 years & 4 months already pregnant.  Went on to have a total of 16 children (with the same husband) of whom 6 had died by 1911. 

One son lost in the Battle of the Somme 1916, another later as a result of gassing during WW1. 

Ellen died at the age of 77, having been a widow for 25 years.

According to my grandmother, Ellen’s D-I-L, she was a bit of a battle axe.  Do you wonder?   

Linda

[Gaille]

My gt-gt-gtanny Margaret had 15 Children............. including 3 sets of Male/female Twins, plus I suspect at least 3 more Children that died before or around birth.

Her youngest daughter (also Margaret) had 11 Children............ one of which was my Nana

Gt-gt-granny had 35 Grandchildren
Gt-granny had 33 Grandchildren.


LOL My nana had one child!
(I wonder why!!)

 

[Lydart]

My gr. granny had 13 children; generations before her were always large.  Then granny had four ... without too much detail, I wonder how they 'family planned' ... I'm thinking 1900 - 1910 ... were 'rubber goods' invented by then ??

[kaydoubleu27]

Lol Lydart - maybe they were too expensive tho bringing up children would have been more so 

My poor 3 x great grandparents had 15 children, all still living according to the 1911 census and the poor old dad of them all was still working as a dock labourer at the age of 70 and he died at 71! When I moan about being overworked and underpaid I should think of him 

Kim

[Samueller]

The vicar of a mining parish in Warwickshire in about 1913 went to congratulate a parishioner on the birth of their 16th child.  He asked what they were calling the baby. "Albert" said the father, to which the mother recoiled in horror and said "Bless 'e, George, we've already got an Albert."
Sam

[Rah1980]

Well they couldn't have all been that worn out by having so many children as they wouldn't of had the energy to make more would they My nan has 8 children (although there was another two who died before birth) over 25 grand children (so far) and about 8 great grand children (so far)

[Charles IX]

I have this guy as an ancestor:-
Thomas Edwin Ricks married four more times in plural marriage, and was father of 42 children. He was the founder of Ricks College, in Rexburg, Idaho.
Now thats a busy guy! I also have 2 lots Gt-grandparents and 3 lots of gt-gt-grandparents who have 11 children each, I dont know why but no-one could break that 11 mark. Not that I blame them!!

**just to add somthing else I found to do with Thomas Ricks**
At the time of his death he had 154grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren living.

[coombs]

3xgreat grandfather Thomas Roberts (1813-1889) was married 3 times and had 10 known children.