[Magdalen] parochialism

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Gma O had one child. Gma Hayes had two children. Mom had two.

Uh huh, always the contrarian...

On Wednesday, July 6, 2016, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> In a message dated 7/6/2016 11:35:19 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> michaudme at gmail.com <javascript:;> writes:
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> My  great-grandmother had 22 children.
> My grandmother had 9.
> My mother had  2.>>>>>>>>>>>>
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> A similar pattern for my family, though they were Pietist Lutherans:
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> My great grand father's first wife had 15 children; he remarried and
> had another 8 via the new wife (my grandmother).  There were so
> many children in that generation that they began to reuse names
> from the first set.  So there are two Andrew Liums, one from the  first
> set and one from the second set (my grandfather).  What a  nightmare
> to do genealogy.
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> My grandmother had 10 children
> My mother had two.
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> David Strang (from D'estreing to Streing to Streng to Strang).
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-- 
James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
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