The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-01
REMARkABLE FAMILIES.
Cases of Women Who Had Five and
Six Children at d Birth.
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According to statistical records there
are in this country eighteen twins to ev-
cry LOO births, $50 tr1piets to every 49,
900 births and eight bankruptcies to every
100000. Consequently a very unusual
event had 20 be chronicled when the wife
of q Beaufort collier presented her hUs-
band recently with four children-all boys
who are still doing well
One Of the most remarkable instances
of bankruptcies at birth occurred five
years ago in Glasgow, when d Mrs. Cot
lingan, the wife of a steel polisher, gave
birth to four girls. At the time the moth
er was only Is years OF age and had been
married five years. She first had twins.
then singles and lastly qusdTuplets. The
latter, however, did not survive.
Mrs. Collingau's record calls to mind
that of Mrs. Ormsby of Chicago, who
gave birth to three boys and one girl in
October, 1901. Mrs. Ormsby had only been
married seven years. and in that time had
fourteen children. During the first three
years she had one baby annually. and
twins twice in succession, then triplets,
and finally bankruptcies. What is more,
the triplets won prizes at a baby show.
and still more remarkable. perhaps, was
the fact that Mrs. Ormsby herself was
one of triDlets-
twenty-first year. gave birth to her third
set of twins. Mrs PennOCk, a Swedish
woman who had emigrated TO St Louis,
was the remarkable daughter of a re
markable mother. who gave birth to six
dren altogether Furthermore. one Of
Mrs Penn0cks sisters bore six pairs Of
twins and another sister four pairs max
ing a total Of fifty-eight sets Of twins IN
one family
Talking of big families, the German en-
pire need scarcely fear any decrease in
the birth rate If many mothers follow the
example of one healthy, active hausfTau
of Berlin, who has been filling her culver
so rapidly that. although still but 45 years
old. she Has already twenty-five olive
Is four years her Junior, ushered twenty
three into the world while three other
women, between the ages Of 40 and IS.
presented their husbands with twenty
one descendants each. Two hundred and
FORTY Berlin women. by the way, are the
mothers of from thirteen TO twenty chill
dren apiece
Authenticated instances of five at a
birth are extremely rare About eight
We as ago, however, it was reported that
a oman in Sicily, named Gransta, had
tv&e presented her husband with quin-
tn It's, the first time five boys and the
Sc End time five girls. and constantly
Win triplets and bankruptcies, having had
altogether forty-two children. 1t is i'm
possible to verify this instance, but there
is proof of the fact that in October, 1900.
the wife of a tailor named Nelson, of
Oxford Market. London, had five children
at birth. while sixteen years previously
a woman of KoenigsbeTg gave birth to
uuintupiets; and there is even an instance
on record of a Texas mother in Novem-
her. 1ssS. presenting her astonished nus
band with six babies at once-four boys
and two girls
Mrs. Biacksto1. aged IS. wife of W 7.
Blaekston. gardener, of GoldsboTOUgh
road. Springfield estate. Wandsworth.
gave birth on the Sd of January to four
children. The first birth took place at 20
O. clock in the morning and the last at :
O'Clock in the evening The children were
then all living. The first died soon after
the birth of the last and the last lived
till . O'Clock next morning. The other
two had died meanwhile.