[Magdalen] parochialism

[Jay Weigel]

My grandparents each had 3 (my father's oldest brother was stillborn).
However, my maternal grandmother was the youngest of 9. I'm the oldest of
3. My late ex was the third in a Roman Catholic family of 4 kids. His dad
was one of either 6 or 7, I forget. One of his uncles had 13(!) kids. We
had 4, lost one to SIDS. My daughter has 2, Adam had one.

On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Esther Williamson <momohl1 at cox.net> wrote:

> 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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