Well, I'm a loser! Only two boys and one of them has disappeared after 1870 census. Does 11 children from a Yorkshire emigrant who moved to Hawaii and had the children there count? -----Original Message----- From: yorksgen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:yorksgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Karlena Nagle Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 9:38 AM To: CHRISTINE WILLOTT; YORKSGEN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] family size Hi Christine and all, I have a family (who were not from Yorkshire) where there were 16 children born to one set of parents, Robert Wise and his wife Mary Ann Lucas, here in Tasmania. An even balance of 8 girls and 8 boys. But not quite satisfied with his efforts at populating Tassie Robert then married again, to Elizabeth Barratt, after he was widowed and they produced a further 12 children. With the exception of two children, who I don't have death dates for, the other 26 children all survived to adulthood. Robert was born in 1818 and his youngest child was born in 1901 so Robert was 26 when his eldest child was born and 83 years old when his last child was born. I have yet to discover an older new father ;-) Due to the wide spread of ages of the children, Robert has 5xgreat grandchildren alive today as well as grandchildren although not on the same lines of course. Bye Karlena from a chilly Tasmania, Australia. -----Original Message----- From: CHRISTINE WILLOTT Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 4:24 PM To: YORKSGEN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [YORKSGEN] family size The list is rather quiet at present so on the way back from the Wakefield archives yesterday, we decided to suggest a competition. Family sizes in the past were large so who has got the family with the most children to any one set of parents? Step families are excluded. Then we thought who had the most girls in a family and who had the most boys? Chris ..... Ancestors in Yorkshire? http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/index.html; www.ryedalefamilyhistory.org; www.wharfedalefhg.org.uk; www.yorkshireparishregisters.com; www.yorkshireroots.org.uk; ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to YORKSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ..... Ancestors in Yorkshire? http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/index.html; www.ryedalefamilyhistory.org; www.wharfedalefhg.org.uk; www.yorkshireparishregisters.com; www.yorkshireroots.org.uk; ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to YORKSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message