Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1890 — The Largest Family On Record. [ARTICLE]

The Largest Family On Record.

In the Harlein MSS., Nos. 980 and 78, in the British Museum, there is an extraordinary fact mentioned; namely Shat a weaver in Scotland had by one wife, a Scoth woman, sixty-two children, but only feur daughters of these lived to be women. Forty-six sons, however, attained their majority. Most of the sons were living in the year 1630, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, and it was recorded in the early history of Newcastle that a wealthy gentleman rode thirty miles beyond Edinburgh in order to prove the matter. It is said that Sir J. Boyes adopted ten of the sons, and three other gentlemen also took ten each. The rest were brought up by the parents. Daughters of the Prince of Wales. Bugene Field in Chicago News. The youngest of the daughters, Princess Maud, is the best looking of the three, bearing a fairly close likeness to her mother. All three are said to have inherited their royal : grandma’s temper, and amusing stories are told of the discipline which has had to be resorted to at times in order to keep the willful young women in check. Within the year the Princess Maud, now past twenty, has been sent to bed without her supper because she rebelled against one of the domestic rides.