Genealogy Chat

PP

that is also what I have been told ..... and also read about in several places, including when I was doing a zoology degree.


I have also seen quite a lot of cases on censuses and other records where children were born to mothers over the age of 45.

my mum was 42 when our youngest sibling was born . She thought she was pregnant some 3 months earlier than she actually fell although turned out late she had started the change then!!

Her due dates kept changing cos the baby seemed rather small , the first date was in June but this was amended because of the babies development then it went to August . I broke up for summer holidays end July and told everyone that when we came back for the Autumn term there would be another sibling . Well went back early Sept and the baby still hadn't arrived , she made her appearance on the 14th Sept .

She was born at home , the youngest of 8 !

My maternal Grand Mother had thirteen children.
Seven sons and six daughters.
My Mother was the youngest.
Great Grand Mother had Mother at age 46.
GGM died aged 60 of bowel cancer.

My great great grandmother was born in 1846 had her first (surviving) child in 1868 and her eleventh and last in 1896. She died in 1919 (flu or just plain knackered ?!?!?) Her husband lived till 1932.

And that helps show how generations can span the centuries The last child was born 1896, her father was born 1845 and her grandfather was born in 1787. She passed away in 1960, 173 years after her grandfather's birth.

As Kevin says, generations can span the centuries.


OH has a family with 20 children, his gt grandfather being one of them

The couple married in 1835.

First child born 5 months later

20th child born in 1860, died 1900

ALL survived to adulthood ......... although there is a suggestion that I cannot verify that a child was born and lost between number 19 and number 20.


Father of the family died January 1869, age 62, and mother died about 3 weeks later, age 54, of "chronic disease of the heart".

So she was approximately 45/6 when her last child was born

The 19th child was born in 1858, died in 1938 ........... and was well-known to my father-in-law and his wife!

She actually died only 1 month before OH was born


The strangest thing of all is that I did not know of this woman ........... but ended up giving our daughter the same name!

It was a name that I had seen in a book way before we married (or even dated), and decided that I liked it so much that I would give to a daughter, if I ever had one.

It was not until daughter was born that f-i-l said "That's Aunt xxxxxx name ....... but you have spelled it wrongly"

................ a small matter of "t" vs "tt" at the end of the name.

Les than 2 years later, we were back in the UK, and f-i-l produced a handwritten (copper-plate) framed listing of that family, with all the birth dates one. It now hangs on the hall wall here.



sylvia

Medical advice I got.

In your 40s clear after 2 years from last period. In 50s 18 months from last period.

Late menopause is not that unusual. My father's side of our family have this. Some of my cousins, my sister and myself stopped our periods between ages 52 and 54, which meant we were not clear until 54 - 56. We did however find that we had less severe symptoms and they lasted a shorter time than relatives and friends who's started menopause in their 40s.

There are 5 of us who could have had children in our 50s, and 1 of my aunts was very late 40s when she had her 2nd child. Her daughter was almost at work when her brother was born, early 1933 and late 1947.

Pat