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

Hiya Christine & list, my 3x gr grandparents John BAGGAN & Hariet (nee THOMPSON) had 7 daughters: Mary Elizabeth - married William ECCLESTON 1874 Jane -married Frederick WOFFENDEN 1866 Hannah - married William SYKES 1868 Emma only one not to marry Sarah Ann - married George Temple PICKUP 1874 Eliza - married John SCHOLES 1879 Harriet - married Harry PONSONBY 1879 (my 2x gr/parents) Maureen x -----Original Message----- From: CHRISTINE WILLOTT <christine.willott@btopenworld.com> 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

Hiya Christine & list, bit extra info as someone may have one of the following in their tree, you got to be bit cheeky in our hobby!! John BAGGAN b.1822 - d.1869 Pontefract but married 1844 Sheffield where his parents & siblings moved to live. Harriet THOMPSON b 1822 Normanby, Lincoln d.1887 Pontefract. All daughters born in Pontefract & married there (except Eliza who married at St Lawrence in York. I believe the following SYKES family had 14 children, Maureen my 3x gr grandparents John BAGGAN & Hariet (nee THOMPSON) had 7 daughters: Mary Elizabeth - married William ECCLESTON 1874 Jane -married Frederick WOFFENDEN 1866 Hannah - married William SYKES 1868 Emma only one not to marry Sarah Ann - married George Temple PICKUP 1874 Eliza - married John SCHOLES 1879 Harriet - married Harry PONSONBY 1879 (my 2x gr/parents) Maureen x -----Original Message----- From: CHRISTINE WILLOTT <christine.willott@btopenworld.com> 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

My father was one of 14 children of his father's second marriage, produced over a period of 20 years, ten of whom survived into adulthood. There was also an older half-brother, my uncle Tom, who was sadly killed in 1917 at Passchendaele. Rob > 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 >

Hi Chris My g.g.grandparents married in July 1857 and had their first child in May 1858 They went on to have thirteen children until my g.g.grandmother died aged 38 at 8.20pm 16th December 1874, eight hours after the birth of their last daughter Alice The longest gap between giving birth and falling pregnant with the next was 11 months Nine girls and four boys All lived to adulthood They were not from Yorkshire although one son set up in Keighley and farmed there for many years, their descendants are still in the area For myself, I am the youngest of ten and the great grandson of another tenth child Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 25/07/2012 07:24, CHRISTINE WILLOTT wrote: > 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

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