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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

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

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

Geoff, She obviously hadn't heard of a headache..... Crista

In 1901 there are 20 Jonas in Chester but no John - Cheers Chris

I wonder if she ever worked out what was causing it.

Can anyone find them on a census? Probably have a page to themselves. Crista

Hi Alot of mine had 10 - 15 kids, but 33 !! poor woman, her life must have been very hard. Sandra

Housework? No need to make the bed anyway;)

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.

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