Show I LARGE FAMILIES Fe Few fathers have have hae such ch large families families families I lies as the applicant for relief to the Birkenhead Guardians who stated that he was 70 years of ot age was the father of twenty-one twenty children the he oldest of whom was 50 and the youngest an in in- in fant The man has married twice hence bence the case is rot Jot as s remarkable an instance of a large family as those given by Thoresby In his History of Leeds He cites the case of Dr Hudson Hudson Hud Hud- son chancellor of York whose wife died in her bel thirty-ninth thirty year having given birth to twenty-four twenty children Another long family was that of ot Joseph Joseph Jo Jo- seph Cooper belonging to the same town whose wife bore twenty-six twenty children children chil chil- dren but the most remarkable was that of ot William Greenhill of Abbots Abbots' Langley in who had noless noless no noless less than thirty-nine thirty children by one wife France has need of such Lon Lon London don Chronicle |