Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1901 — Hat 128 Decendants. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Hat 128 Decendants.

The Dowager of Abercorn who celebrated her ninetieth birthday quite

recently, has more living descendants than even Queen Victoria had. Her children, grandchildren, great-grand-children, and great-great-grandchil-dren number 128, among them being four dukes and heirs to dukedoms. The Dowager Duchess is a daughter of the sixth duke of Bedford, and was married to the Duke of Abercorn in 1829. On her eighty-second birthday, in 1894, there was a family reunion, at which 101 of her descendants passed before the venerable Dowager, led by her eldest daughter, the Dowager Duchess of Lichfield, with her thirteen children and thirteen grandchildren, who were followed by the thirteen children and fifteen grandchildren of the Countess of Durham. The children of the Dowager Duchess who are still living are the present Duke of Abercorn, Countess Winterton, Lord Claud Hamilton, Lord George Hamilton, the Marchioness of Blandford, the Marchioness of Lansdowue, and Lord Ernest Hamilton.

Dowsger Dochess of Abercom