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

[Jim Guthrie]

>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

If one lived past working age, one needed children for support.

My father's mother had eight children -- only five lived past the age of 10, 
because childhood diseases claimed so many lives.

She was married at 25, had the fist child in 1893 and the last in 1919. My Dad 
was Number 7.

Cheers,
Jim