[Magdalen] 5 Easter sermon, was Baptism refused...

[Jay Weigel]

My late ex's father was one of a half-dozen or so Roman Catholic siblings,
most of whom seemed to be in a competition to see who could have the most
children. He was considered something of a piker, having only four, as most
of his siblings had anywhere from eight to thirteen. My late mother-in-law
was a convert. Make of that what you will.

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> On 5/11/15 7:13 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 5/11/2015 8:06:27 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> jguthrie at pipeline.com writes:
>>
>> Why we  don't believe in the "traditional family" mythology. She had five
>> children  by my great great grandfather Blok, and the Handyman sired six
>> more! My
>> mother met some of the Louewens when she was a little girl, but they
>> pretty much
>> disappeared when they came of  age.>>>>
>>
>> For much of the world back in that day, having a lot of children was
>> routine.  Usually, though, it was the wives who died away leaving  the
>> husband to start a new family.
>>
>> In the case of my maternal great grandfather, there were 10 children  from
>> the first mother, and then an addition 7 children with the second
>> mother - my great grandmother.
>>
>> They had run out of names, and so there was some reuse.  There
>> are two sibling Andrew Liums, for example.  This makes genealogy a  real
>> nightmare.
>>
>
> My mother, born 1906, was the middle child of eleven, my father, born
> 1903, was the youngest of "only" six.  Both wives of my father's father
> died young, the first of childbed fever, my own grandmother of breast
> cancer.  My mother's mother, whom I remember, was very proud of raising all
> of her eleven to adulthood, while my father lost two half-siblings to
> diphtheria before he was born.
>
>
> --
> Sibyl Smirl
> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>