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Mother of 33 children
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Debbie | Report | 1 Jun 2004 17:33 |
No I am not this was in my evening Echo on looking back 100 years ago. Since the Old Testament, few people have had such large families as the late Mr John Jonas of Chester. His qifw became the mother of 33 children, all of whom lived to be christened, though the majority died before reaching manhood. She had 15 sets of twins and she also gave birth to three children singly. That poor woman, I have done a search for John Jonas and there is a few but it desnt give his age in the newspaper. Are any of you researching that name. That would be a lot of birth certificates to order. Debbie |
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badger | Report | 1 Jun 2004 19:08 |
I thought my g/g/granda and grandma did well with twelve but thirty three, i wonder where she found the time for housework.Fred. |
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Smiley | Report | 1 Jun 2004 19:44 |
Housework? No need to make the bed anyway;) |
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Sandra | Report | 2 Jun 2004 08:01 |
Hi Alot of mine had 10 - 15 kids, but 33 !! poor woman, her life must have been very hard. Sandra |
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Crista | Report | 2 Jun 2004 08:39 |
Can anyone find them on a census? Probably have a page to themselves. Crista |
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Geoff | Report | 2 Jun 2004 08:40 |
I wonder if she ever worked out what was causing it. |
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Christine2 | Report | 2 Jun 2004 08:44 |
In 1901 there are 20 Jonas in Chester but no John - Cheers Chris |
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Crista | Report | 2 Jun 2004 09:26 |
Geoff, She obviously hadn't heard of a headache..... Crista |
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Debbie | Report | 2 Jun 2004 12:10 |
Afternoon all This was 100 years ago so 1904 so I imagine they should be on the 1901 census I dont know whether it meant he died 100 years ago or it happened then. He must have been a horrible man letting his wife go through all that. Debbie |
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Zoe | Report | 2 Jun 2004 12:36 |
I can't see anyone obvious on the 1891 - I'm searching for John Jonas in Cheshire but none of them appear to be overrun with children |
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Zoe | Report | 2 Jun 2004 13:06 |
okay - I'm getting into this now. I've searched for Jonas births in Cheshire using FreeBMD and got these that have matching page numbers so in theory could be twins: Births Sep 1845 Jonas Sarah G Boughton 19 39 Jonas William G Boughton 19 39 Births Jun 1847 Jonas John Gt Boughton 19 48 Jonas Mary Gt Boughton 19 48 Births Jun 1852 Jonas Eliza Great Boughton 8a 366 Jonas Emma Great Boughton 8a 366 Births Sep 1853 Jonas Eliza Gt Boughton 8a 331 Jonas Thomas Gt Boughton 8a 310 Births Jun 1857 Jonas Eliza Gt Boughton 8a 348 Jonas Henry Gt Boughton 8a 348 |
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Lindsey | Report | 2 Jun 2004 13:29 |
If I remember rightly the person with the most children in this country was a Mrs Mott and she had 46 children around 1670s to 1720s. The person with the most in the world was a Russian woman with 64 or 68 I think. I saw it on TV yesterday. Lindsey |
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Debbie | Report | 2 Jun 2004 15:19 |
Well done to you Zoe that looks like a few sets of twins there. perhaps the paper article meant he John Jonas had died in 1904. So the dates of the children you found would probably be about right. I wish there was someone researching them I would love to know if twins carried on in the family. Debbie |
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Zoe | Report | 2 Jun 2004 15:56 |
right - I think I have two of them in the 1881: (this first one would be his son??) William JONAS Head M Male 31 Chester, Cheshire, England Plumber Emma JONAS Wife M Female 33 Chester, Cheshire, England Emma JONAS Daur Female 9 Chester, Cheshire, England Scholar Mary A. JONAS Daur Female 7 Chester, Cheshire, England Scholar William JONAS Son Male 5 Chester, Cheshire, England Scholar Mabel JONAS Daur Female 3 Chester, Cheshire, England John J. JONAS Son Male 2 m Chester, Cheshire, England Alfred FURNESS Nephew U Male 15 Chester, Cheshire, England Apprentice Plumber ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 96 Foregate St, Chester St John Baptist, Cheshire, England (and this would be the prolific Mr jonas himself) John JONAS Head M Male 66 Chester Furniture Broker Mary JONAS Wife M Female 67 Gresford, Denbigh, Wales Saleswoman ... Martha JONAS Dau U Female 30 Chester Servant Eliza CALLAN Dau M Female 23 Chester Furniture Saleswoman Henry JONAS Son U Male 23 Chester Furniture Salesman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 65 Foregate St, Chester St John Baptist, Cheshire, England obviously I'm making a lot of assumptions here. I wonder could we contact the newspaper and see if the piece they reprinted referred to a death or if it was just a piece about the man |
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Zoe | Report | 2 Jun 2004 16:07 |
do tell me if I'm getting carried away. The poor exhausted woman???.... Marriages Jun 1839 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CRANE Thomas Great Boughton 19 21 EVANS Margaret Great Boughton 19 21 GREGORY Thomas Gt. Boughton 19 21 JONAS John Great Boughton 19 21 KEARSLEY Mary Great Boughton 19 21 LARGE Hannah Gt. Boughton 19 21 |
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Debbie | Report | 2 Jun 2004 17:53 |
I think My Echo has an email address so I might try and email them and ask them. I will let you know if I recieve a reply. Debbie |
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LindaMcD | Report | 2 Jun 2004 20:35 |
If my memory is correct this is mentioned by the guide on the Chester city bus tour and their graves are in the local cemetery. Linda |
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Christina | Report | 2 Mar 2015 22:33 |
I have just come across this family in the Westmorland Gazette, April 25 1857 where there is a copy of an announcement of her 12th set of twins, in Chester, a girl and a boy - which together with other births totalled 32 children at that time. |
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GlitterBaby | Report | 2 Mar 2015 22:55 |
Christina did you spot the date of this thread - 2004 |
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supercrutch | Report | 2 Mar 2015 23:27 |
lololol makes my late FIL who was one of 20 children a child from a small family :-D |
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