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The miracle of childbirth is said to be a beautiful thing, and becoming a parent to
a beautiful bundle of joy should be an honor.
Some women, however, have taken that to the extreme and had baby, after baby, after baby.
And that's exactly what we're going to talk about today - the top 10 women with the most
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Mrs. Harrison First on the list is Mrs. Harrison of London,
England.
She and her husband conceived 35 children together, and she gave birth to their final
child in 1736.
It’s unknown why they decided to have so many children, but Mr. Harrison worked as
an undertaker so I can only imagine that he wanted as much life in his house as possible
when he got home from a long day at work with dead people.
9.
Mariam Nabatanzi Babirye 37-year-old Mariam Nabatanzi Babirye is number
nine on our list with 38 children.
Mariam only set out to have six children, but by the time she’d delivered three different
times, she'd have 18 babies.
Oops.
In total, Mariam would end up having 10 girls and 28 boys.
At the time of writing, her youngest is almost two years old and the eldest is in their mid-twenties.
Among the kids are six sets of twins, four sets of triplets, and three sets of quadruplets.
Only two of the pregnancies resulted in just one baby.
All but one of the children were delivered in her house in Uganda, Africa.
The 38th child had to be delivered by cesarean but is growing up to be a healthy little girl
in their very hectic home.
8.
Elizabeth Greenhill Elizabeth Greenhill and her husband William
had 39 children during their marriage.
The English couple had seven sons and 32 daughters, and what’s incredible is that other than
one set of twins all the children were single births.
That’s a lot of pregnancies.
That’s also an impressive amount of live births for the time – Elizabeth lived during
the mid-1600’s when birth mortality rates were extremely high.
The last child was the well-known doctor Thomas Greenhill who was born in 1669 shortly after
his father’s death.
Elizabeth was quoted as saying that if her beloved husband hadn’t died she might have
gone on to have a few more children.
7.
Alice Hookes Not much is known about Alice Hookes other
than what can be found in a small cemetery in North Wales in the UK.
On an old, worn-down gravestone lies an inscription that Nicholas Hookes was the 41st child of
Alice Hookes.
Nicholas died in 1637 and there are no other records on their huge family.
As with the Greenhills, who we just looked at, that amount of live births was extremely
uncommon in those days, so there’s no way of knowing whether all 41 children survived
birth.
6.
Elizabeth Mott We’re back in the UK again for number six
on the list.
Seriously, was there something in the water around the UK that made families so big back
then?
Elizabeth Mott of Warwickshire gave birth to 42 live-born children.
She was married to John Mott in 1676 and died in 1720, producing the sixth most children
in recorded history during that time.
Not much else is known about the Mott family, or whether all of the Mott children lived
to see adulthood, but we know that she definitely deserves her place on this list.
5.
Maddalena Granata Maddalena Granata was born in Nocera, Italy
in 1839 and was married at the age of 28.
During her marriage, which we can only assume was a happy one, Maddalena gave birth to 52
children.
Not all of them survived, but incredibly 49 of them were boys.
Perhaps they just kept trying and trying for a girl?
Who knows.
Luckily for Maddalena though, not all of the babies were single births: according to a
doctor in her city, she gave birth to 15 sets of triplets.
Records for her children end at 1886, so it’s possible that she had even more.
4.
Barbara Stratzmann We’re going way back in time now, to Barbara
Stratzmann and her 53 babies.
Barbara was born in present-day Germany in 1448 and gave birth to 38 sons and 15 daughters.
These were the days of the Holy Roman Empire and she is said to be the woman with the most
children from this time period.
She had a total of 29 births, which included one set of septuplets, one set of sextuplets,
four sets of triplets and five sets of twins.
Sadly, 19 of Barbara and her husband Adam’s children were stillborn, and it’s not known
how many others died in their early years, but it seems that most of them had very short
lives.
What we do know, though, is that the eldest surviving child was eight years old in 1498
when a notary wrote about the Stratzmann family.
3.
Mrs. Kirillov We’re heading to Russia for number three
on our list, and to Mrs. Kirillov in the sleepy village of Vvedensky between the years of
1695 and 1755.
I’m assuming it was sleepy anyway, because of the huge volume of children that Mrs. Kirillov
and her husband Yakov had time to conceive.
The couple had an incredible 57 children in total, delivered in 21 births.
The Kirillov clan was made up of ten sets of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four
sets of quadruplets.
Incredibly, Mrs. Kirillov didn’t have one single birth!
2.
Mrs. Gravata Mrs. Gravata was born in Tuscany at the beginning
of the 20th century.
She was the twin daughter of a triplet, so she should have known that multiple births
were a strong possibility, but she could have never known just how many she’d have during
her lifetime.
Her first baby was a single girl, but then her second pregnancy resulted in six sons.
She had five more children the following year, followed by two sets of triplets and one set
of quadruplets.
The rest of her children were either single or twin girls with the exception of the last
four, which were boys.
Italians are known to sometimes have big families, but Mrs. Gravata takes the crown with her
brood!
1.
Valentina Vassilyev Number one on our list is Valentina Vassilyev
and her unbelievable 69 kids.
Valentina and her husband Feodor hail from Shuya, Russia, and are said to hold the record
for the most children a single couple has ever parented.
Between 1725 and 1765 Valentina gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets
and four sets of quadruplets.
It’s thought that 67 survived infancy, with the loss of only one set of twins.
Not much is known about Valentina, but it’s said that she lived to be 76.
Interestingly, Feodor clearly wasn’t satisfied with having 69 children, as he went on to
remarry and have a further 18 children with his second wife.