New-York tribune., 1908-09-13
FATHER OF sIxTY-TWO CHILDREN.
Record Claimed by SeOtland-Stories Of
Large Families in Various Countries

In these days OF declining families # IS quits
reassuring to read in the column Of news
paper Of one lady who. ir fourteen years has con-
tributed twenty to the population: and OF another
who boasts as many descendants as there ars
days in leap year. says Tit Bits
But one need not search long among family
records without discovering many ttat s.il
more remarkable. II is only few months sncs
We read Of woman Antwerp who actually
gave birth to six sens last year-three making
their entrance together into the world in January
and three others following in December. Perhaps
more interesting stilI was the achievement OF
hers 10 her family at seven births and in as many
There have. however. been many parents who
would have considered twenty-One quite small
family. There was for instance that Scottish
weaver. Of whom the HarIeian Mss ten US who
had no fewer than siXty-twO children BY one VIE.
all of whom were born alive and Of whom forty
six sons and four daughters half a hundred slD
lived 20 be twenty-one and upward Inonas
the thirty-ninth child of father and mothss
there was French lawyer. according 20 Boyls. Boy
Melbourne who died in l743 at the ase ~ lee Isi'
thirty children to wear mourning foT ner 1., a
Chester. was the mother of .hIty-three r1iGIen,.
for out relief had thirty children 70 call htq
father; and one Anthony CLARK quite s2ogSfT 9SfT
Court. by pleading guilty TO thirty-two sons anu
Even the record Of the lady who boasts S06 De-
scendants has been eclipsed more than ossa5
When len Mrs Of Gnaring N kenI kSeennIprssd
is children ia grandchildren 22S grandea d.
dren and greatgrea -grandC hi SIS - -
creditable total of SCI persons who owed thsif "a
istence to her. But much more W0noeIltI .iig
lady was Lady Temple OF STOW. VINO sct.sa''
lived to pat her 7o0th descendant on the hee- -
Even this does not constitute record for or y
years ago there died the neighborhood OF 11TsIsr
nog in Merionetshire. Wales. an honesI 20
farmer who was ieS years OF age ~ ns tsI- - sy his
he had thirty children by his seeond ys5- = wears
third four. His Youngest son was eSlty
younger than his eldest and eight hundfSSal - On
sons descended from his body, attenoso HS
N we come down - recen times we also so-YsI ~.
records which calculated 10 make ohe uss
buried in Hutton Bushel churchyard, nssL L-,;5ov,
borough, Mrs Ursula Lightfoot. farmers ,,ou-1
who left fewer than 16S descendants - ~ thrss
her less These included six dauGhtets S.str-fhrss
sons seventy-nine grandchildren. seV Ven..[,srhl.
great grandchildren and two great
dren .o~, n nay
be remembered. lived to nurse more !isStS, Nssk-
dred OF her descendants: and MI w ~ the age
ing OF High Wycombe. before ne 1lsu 1lsussnts ID 70
Of ntnety-one, could count Ms uSSS01''
nearly the same number ,,a. ssuily ca
Beyond all question the most Eronno 80. settled
record is that Of man called Weo2. sisast sc1
was father OF nineteen children. and ttotaling
eighty. three later geuSIts--- ndchil.
425 members; OF wh9p1 two were Sas more than v ~
descendants: while his daughter Sssth descend
with ten children. lived to see ner -S9s,for asovs
ant and TO raise the family OF WeoO
Another daughter Sally by name, raniNS aisS IS De-
In order OF contribution to the census ssi5 Lefty
Win a total of son: while Webb's yonnfs;or had
according TO the latest family enui,nSsiisren ara
eleven children. seventy-stN grfIluSstAioos Tnus
eighty OF the two succeeding set;on 10 Arerss--
has already added more than l,oeo 70 "
than's family