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The total fertility rate or TFR is a statistic that characterizes the average number of births per woman in a hypothetical generation over her entire life. Since 1950, the TFR has steadily declined. In the United States, for example, the TFR in 1950 was 4.95 children per mother. This statistic has consistently decreased over the past years and in 2010 in the United States the TFR is approximately 2.36, i.e. for sixty years there has been a decrease in this indicator by two children per mother.

However, throughout history there have been many women who have given birth to significantly more children than the statistical average. You do not even suspect what is meant by the word "significantly". Unfortunately, the stories of mothers who were said to have given birth incredible amount children, is quite difficult to verify, the only evidence remaining to this day are journal entries and old gravestones. However, what little is known about these mothers today is simply breathtaking.

Here are ten mothers who, according to historical records, gave birth to the largest number of children.

10. Mary Jonas (33 children).

In the 19th century, Foregate Street, Chester, England, lived a furniture dealer named Mary Jonas. When she died in 1899, at the age of 85, she was buried next to her husband, John Jonas. Their gravestone at Overleigh Cemetery in Chester, England contains an interesting inscription. The engraving reads:

Here lie John Jonas, who died on February 24th, 1892, at the age of 78, and Mary Jonas, the beloved wife of the above and mother of 33 children, who died on December 4th, 1899, at the age of 85.

Of the 33 children of Mary and John, 30 were twins (15 pairs), and each pair of twins consisted of a boy and a girl. In addition, all of Mary and John's children were born alive and well, but most of them died before they became adults. However, ten children were still alive at the time of their father's death in 1892. Another interesting fact about the family, that the popular magazine of their time, Tit-Bits, held a competition promising a lifetime subscription to the woman who "will contribute the most to increase the population of the Empire." Ms. Jonas won the competition posthumously.

9. Mrs. Harrison (35 children).

1736: Mrs. Harrison, wife of Mr. Harrison, a Ver Street businessman, had her 35th child by the same husband.

Nothing else is known about this couple.

8. Elizabeth Greenhill (39 children)

Most mothers with many children had multiple pregnancies. However, Elizabeth Greenhill of Abbots Langley in Hertfordshire gave birth to 39 children with only one multiple birth. This story was recorded in The Art of Embalming by Thomas Greenhill, so we know this fact. The entry in the book reads:

She had 39 children from one husband. They were all born alive, and all were from same-sex pregnancies. The last child, who was born after the death of his father, worked as a surgeon in King Street, Bloomsbury, and wrote this book. She said that if her husband were alive, she might have had two or three more children.

Thomas Greenhill, author of the book and last child Elizabeth, born after the death of his father, William Greenhill, in the late 1660s.

7. Alice Hookes (41 children).

Alice Hookes Gwyneth of North Wales is included in this list based on the inscription on her gravestone found in the churchyard at Conway Church. The inscription on it states that Nicholas Hookes, who died in 1637, was the 41st child of his mother Alice. Unfortunately, there is no further information about Alice's other children.

6. Elizabeth Mott (42 children).

The 1988 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records names the British record holder with the largest number of children as Elizabeth Mott. In 1676 Elizabeth and John Mott of Monks Kirby in northeast Warwickshire were married and reportedly had 42 children. Elizabeth died in 1720.

5. Maddalena Pomegranate (52 children).

In Nosera, Italy, a woman named Maddalena Granata was reported to have given birth to a total of 52 children. This was recorded by a Xaples correspondent in a Parisian magazine, where the following was written:

About two or three stations from Pompeii, in the city of Nosera, lives Maddalena Granata, forty-seven years old, who married at twenty-eight and gave birth to 52 living and dead children, 49 of them were boys. Dr. de Sanctis of Nocer states that she has had triplets 15 times.

4. Barbara Stratzman (53 children)

Living between 1448 and 1503, during the time of the Holy Roman Empire, Barbara Stratzmann of Bönningheim (today part of Germany) was reported to have given birth to 53 children, although almost none survived infancy. Barbara and her husband Adam Stratzman were said to have had one pregnancy with sevens, one with sixes, four triplets, five twins and eighteen singleton pregnancies. Of these children, nineteen are believed to have been stillborn, and by 1498 the oldest surviving child was eight years old.

An unusually large number of births were recorded in painting by the Protestant painter Kyriekaskirch from Bönningheim. In the work, Kyriekaskirch depicted Barbara and Adam with their 53 children in a stable in Bethlehem. However, in 1990 the chief physician of Heilbronn, the Municipal Women's Clinic, questioned this story, pointing out that Barbara's multiple births were statistically improbable and that a woman at that time could hardly have survived multiple pregnancies due to the quality of medicine at the time.

3. Leontina Albina (55 children).

A 1988 edition of Guinness World Records reports that the most prolific mother in the world, at the time, was Leontina Albina (née Espinosa) of San Antonio, Chile, wife of Gerardo Secunda Albina. Leontina and Gerardo, born in 1925 and 1921 respectively, married in Argentina in 1943. According to Gerardo, his wife gave birth to five triplets (all boys) before moving to Chile. Then in Chile, the number of children the couple had steadily increased until 1981, when 55-year-old Leontina gave birth to her 55th child. There is anecdotal evidence that the couple had nine more children after that, making their total 64. If Leontina's birth in 1986 were officially confirmed, this would make her the oldest "young" mother in the world. Unfortunately for the couple, eleven of their children died in the earthquake, and by 1988 only 40 (24 boys and 16 girls) were alive. And most importantly, I wonder if you want to buy toys, how much money do you need to spend on it? The only plus is that the toys go from older to younger. But do not forget that new toys are also needed, and the more children, the more money goes to them.

2. Wife of Yakov Kirillov (57 children).

In 1775, 60-year-old Yakov Kirillov from the village of Vvedenskoye, Russia, was introduced to the royal court in recognition of his successful fatherhood. With the peasant farmer were 15 of his children, who were born by his second wife, and all 57 children, who were born by his first wife. The first wife, whose name was not recorded, gave birth to 57 children in 21 births: four quadruple pregnancies, seven triplets and ten twins. Unfortunately, the fact that Kirillov's wife really gave birth to 57 children cannot be verified, thus there are doubts about the veracity of this statement.

1. The first wife of Fedor Vasiliev (69 children).

Fyodor Vasiliev, who lived from 1707 to 1782, was a peasant from the town of Shuya, Russia. The name of his first wife was not recorded, but according to the records of the St. Nicholas Monastery, this woman gave birth to four children, seven triplets and sixteen twins, as a result of 27 births in the monastery. A total of 69 children were born to one woman, and according to records, only two of the children did not survive infancy. Even more surprisingly, Vasiliev remarried, and his second wife gave birth to two triplets and six twins, that is, a total of 18 more children as a result of 8 births. In total, the man had 87 children. There are doubts about the veracity of this statement; however, the Guinness Book of Records names Vasiliev's wife and her 69 children as the official record holder for the most productive mother of all time.

And the fact that we are in first and second place gives confidence to our nation. Women, of course, we have wow ...;)

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Setuples

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Eights

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From 10 and more

There is information about the birth of ten twins at once. Such cases were recorded in Spain in 1924, in China in 1936 and in Brazil in 1946. But this is not the limit.

Eleven children at once - this is the largest number of twins, information about which is known. The first birth of 11 twins occurred on May 29, 1971 in the USA, in the city of Philadelphia. The second - in 1977 in Bangladesh, in the city of Bagarhat. In both cases, none of the children, unfortunately, survived.

Besides

The largest number of children born to one mother

The largest number of children born to one mother, according to official figures, is 69. According to reports made in 1782, between 1725 and 1765. The wife of a Russian peasant Fyodor Vasiliev gave birth 27 times, giving birth to twins 16 times, triplets 7 times and 4 twins 4 times. Of these, only 2 children died in infancy.

Of our contemporaries, the most prolific mother is Leontina Albina of San Antonio, Chile, who gave birth to 55 children between 1943-81. As a result of the first 5 pregnancies, she gave birth to triplets, and exclusively male.

The woman who gave birth the most times

The record 38 births are said to have been given to Elizabeth Greenhill of Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, UK. She had 39 children - 32 daughters and 7 sons - and died in 1681.

The largest father

by the most father of many children In history, the Russian peasant of the village of Vvedensky Yakov Kirillov is considered, who in 1755 was presented to the court in connection with this (he was then 60 years old). The first wife of a peasant gave birth to 57 children: 4 times four, 7 times three, 9 times two, and 2 times one. The second wife gave birth to 15 children. Thus, Yakov Kirillov had 72 children from two wives.