Big families.

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  1. StatisTYKE

    StatisTYKE Well-Known Member

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    Just doing some research into my area – narrow streets of 2 up 2 downs built as workers cottages in Victorian times.

    There was a couple who had 7 kids in my house at one time. Another across the road had 11 around the 1900s. I’ve found another couple who had 15 kids! The husband made them line their shoes up outside the door as it was the only way he could tell where they all were. Anybody know a family that topped 15?
     
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    Is that including the Mam & Dad?
     
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    Ok, just read your post back, I can't top it but can equal it, my mate from Gt Houghton had 6 brothers & 8 sisters plus himself.
     
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    My late Mother-In-Law was one of 22 children to my wife's Grandparents and she was one of the youngest, Sadly, not all survived into adulthood.
     
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    Did they know what was causing all those babies?
     
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    JLWBigLil Well-Known Member

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    They were married for 71 years, so I've no reason to believe they didn't love one another.
     
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    ATYKE1 Well-Known Member

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    Sounds like they loved each other a lot!!!
     
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    No tele or phones ?
     
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    I have a mate who has 10 kids.

    We keep telling him he needs to get himself a hobby.

    He keeps telling us he already has one ;)
     
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    Can’t top it, but I know a family called Bakers,and yes there was 13 of them:)
     
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    I'm from a family of 7,we had 2 others who died,one in childbirth and the other at 3 months old.
    Sixty years ago my mother who served in the wrens during the war invited her friend up from Buckinghamshire.
    Her friend Peggy came for a week with her husband and 6 children.So that week we had 13 kids and 4 parents in a 3 bed council house but we had a great time.
    As for my siblings all still living and aged from 75 down to 62.
     
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    When I was a kid my sister had two brothers, but I only had one. That taught me that life just wasn't fair at times.
     
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    Thought me and wife was bad with 6
     
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    The feckless **** in 10 Downing St as 7 or is it 8 kids that he admits to and allegedly some he doesn't and I can't for the life of me work out how he's managed to 1 convince any woman the let the creepy fat Tory gimp near them and 2 how he's managed to motivate himself the do the deed so many times cause he can't motivate himself to do owt else.
     
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    That’s more like it. Let’s see if we can bring up 80/20, £750,000, vouchers, benefit scroungers with too many kids, big families spreading Covid and Brexit. And McGeehan
     
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    Great story that imagine 13 now all sat on their phones not talking lol not in those days though.
     
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