[Magdalen] parochialism

[Esther Williamson]

My grandparents each had 3 children. My mom had 2. My Roman Catholic 
doctor would not prescribe the pill until after I gave birth to my 4th 
child in December of 1965. Then in 1992 we adopted our 5th child who 
grew up with our grandchildren.

Esther

On 7/6/2016 3:28 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
> 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:
>
>>
>> In a message dated 7/6/2016 11:35:19 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> michaudme at gmail.com <javascript:;> writes:
>>
>> My  great-grandmother had 22 children.
>> My grandmother had 9.
>> My mother had  2.>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>
>> A similar pattern for my family, though they were Pietist Lutherans:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> My grandmother had 10 children
>> My mother had two.
>>
>>
>>
>> David Strang (from D'estreing to Streing to Streng to Strang).
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