Hello Sarah & Gay, My g.grandmother, who lived to 89 years of age,was one of 19 and had 19 children herself. Both generations we all single births and all survived. My goodness, can you imagine meal times and washing days for these ladies?? Regards, Lynn > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gay O'Neill" <gayoneill@bigpond.com> > To: <BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 12:29 PM > Subject: [BDF] How many children can one woman have? > > >> Hi Sarah, >> my grandmother had 19 children in South Australia in the 1880's. >> She was a Cornwall girl.. There were triplets and twins.. none of those >> babies lived but at least 10 of her children did survive.. what a hero >> of mine. She even moved a few times.. and then came out to Western >> Australia and ended up in Kalgoorlie which was our gold mining boom >> town - that is