Hi Roy Just a thought but what about Kellys Directories for 1850's you might narrow the search by checking licensed victuallers Regards Tony ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Stockdill" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 7:10 PM Subject: [HRT] Watford woman with 30 children in 1851 >I just came across the following fascinating item on a website that is > conducting a trial of online digitised newspapers from the British > Library..... > >>From Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, Dublin, April > 12 1851: > > "REMARKABLE FACT. There is now residing at Watford, in > Hertfordshire, the wife of a respectable licensed victualler, not more > than > forty-three years of age, who was safely delivered, on Monday last, of her > thirtieth child." > > As you can imagine, I am now very keen to find out who she was and if it > was true! However, no name is given. Grrrrrrr.....doesn't it make you want > to spit? > > Presumably, this lady must have figured in the 1851 census, which was > conducted only a few days before the birth of her 30th child. But how to > find her, that's the question? Simply entering Hertfordshire as the county > and Watford as the parish at Ancestry produces over 6,600 entries in the > 1851. And just calling up the June and Sep quarters of 1851 for births at > Watford in FreeBMD produces scores of results. > > Short of trawling through the lot and checking each name in the 1851 > census (and that is hours and hours of work), can anyone think of a quick > short cut to finding out who she was? Or, indeed, has anybody come > across this woman before? And yes, I've tried the Guinness Book of > Records websites and, no, she doesn't appear! > > Grateful for any suggestions. > > -- > Roy Stockdill > Professional genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer > Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: > www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html > > "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, > and that is not being talked about." > OSCAR WILDE > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >