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Offline Andrew Tarr

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Re: Children after Father’s Death
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday 16 June 21 11:03 BST (UK) »
As above -

One possibility which occurs to me is that the 1899 child Arthur may not be hers, but perhaps one of her daughters' ?  If your dates are correct she would have been ~46 when Arthur was born, which while not impossible, would have been unusual; most large families stopped growing when the mother reached about 40.

Clearly there are no reliable statistics on this topic, but it's a very long-established scenario from a time when living was hard and contraception was non-existent or expensive.
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