Hmmmm........methinks that perhaps after having imbibed all that liquor, perhaps another snuck in to father the children...but then I'm a skeptical sort! <g> mary lou In a message dated 6/24/2012 6:01:55 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, cagaden@iprimus.com.au writes: Died on the 25th of February in the barony of Ivereagh in the county of Kerry in Ireland in the 112th year of his age, Danial Bull Macarthy Esq. He had been married to five wives, he married the fifth who survives him when he was 84 and she 14 by whom he had twenty children, she bearing a child every year. He was very healthy, no cold affected him and he could not bear the warmth of a shirt in the night time, but put it under his pillow for the last seventy years. In company he drank plentifully of rum and brandy which he called 'naked truth', and when out of compliance to other gentleman he took claret or port, he always drank an equal glass of rum or brandy to qualify those liquors; this he called a 'wedge'. He used to walk eight or ten miles in a winter's morning with greyhounds and finders and seldom failed to bring home a brace of hares. Hampshire Chronicle 12 August 1797 page 3 Cheers Caroline ..... 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