Record children with one woman at a time. The record for the largest number of births was set by the Englishwoman Elizabeth Greenhill, who lived in the seventeenth century

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 course of recent 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 to an incredible number of children are 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 most a large 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 births. 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. Last child, who was born after his father's death, 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.

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 Guinness World Records names the British record holder with the most children, 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 Nocera, 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 chief physician Heilbronn, of the Municipal Women's Clinic, questioned this story, pointing out that Barbara's multiple births were statistically improbable and that a woman in that period could hardly have survived multiple pregnancies due to the quality of medicine at the time.

3. Leontina Albina (55 children).

A 1988 edition of the Guinness Book of 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 them total equal to 64. If Leontina's birth in 1986 were officially confirmed, then 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 four times 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 married again, 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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The historical record belongs to Russian family Vasiliev, who lived in the 18th century. The wife of Fyodor Vasiliev, Shuisky, gave birth in her life to 69. The woman to this day is the record holder of childbearing and is listed in the Guinness Book.

For more than 200 years, no one in the world has been able to repeat or beat this record. The advantage of the peasant woman was her genetics, which made it possible to produce children in 27 births. Vasilyeva gave birth to twins 16 times (another world record), triplets and four quadruplets were born seven times. Unfortunately, only 67 children survived to adulthood.

It is worth noting that this record is not the final point for Fedor Vasiliev himself. The peasant was married twice. In his first marriage, he had 20 more children. As a result, in big family there were 87 children. This fact was appreciated even by Catherine the Great, and information about such a large offspring is included in the book "Additions to the Acts of Emperor Peter the Great."

Historians are still arguing about the birth order of the children of the peasant Vasiliev. However, the facts gleaned from house books and issues of the Vedomosti newspaper testify to the excessive fertility of the second wife.

The largest families of our time

If not a single woman has managed to beat the record of the peasant woman Vasilyeva to this day, Fedor Vasilyev himself, with a noticeable advantage, was ahead of the modern Hindu Zion Chan (Sion Khan). A polygamist will be born to 94 children.

so many children indian man was able to conceive thanks to his wives - Zion Chan has 39 of them. A huge family lives in a multi-storey building. The wives of sons and grandchildren of the father-hero live in it. According to conservative estimates, about 180 people live in the house.

According to the father of the family, they begin to prepare for dinner in their house before breakfast. As a rule, wives take part in cooking. To feed so many people, more than a dozen chickens and several carts of vegetables are spent on one meal.

In those countries where it is forbidden, the records are distinguished by "modesty". Leontina Albina, a resident of Chile, came closest to the Vasilyevsky record. She managed to give birth to 55 children and was also listed in the Book of Records.

AT modern Russia there are procreation heroes. Today they are Elena and Alexander Shishkin. The family (the direction of Christianity, where abortion is strictly prohibited) gave birth to 20 children. Nineteen of them still live with their parents, and the eldest son already has his own family and three kids.

Christian activists Bob and Michelle Duggar about large family did not think. Initially, their plans included giving life to two or three children. However, after the first baby and subsequent contraception, the woman had a miscarriage that nearly cost her her life. After that, the husband and wife decided not to interfere with "God's plans", and surrendered to the will of fate. As a result, they became one of the largest families in America, having given birth and raised 19 children. There could have been more babies, but Michelle's three births ended in the death of babies.

Record number of births

Elizabeth Greenhill, a resident of the UK, got into the Guinness Book of Records for the largest number of births. This woman gave birth 38 times. She only had twins once. Elizabeth died in 1681, leaving behind a "rich" inheritance in the form of 32 daughters and 7 sons.

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Only another mother-heroine from Italy, Maddalena Granata, can compare with Elizabeth. During her life she was pregnant 15 times and each time she had 3 children at once.

History also knows cases of multiple pregnancies, when 11 children were born to one woman at once. This happened at the end of the 20th century in the USA and Bangladesh. In both cases, not a single child survived.

Record number of embryos

Unfortunately, in almost all cases of multiple pregnancy (more than 10 embryos), if it comes to childbirth, then the chances of survival for such babies are negligible. In 1971, in Italy, Dr. Gennaro Montanino performed an abortion on a 35-year-old woman from whose uterus he removed 15 embryos! 5 of them were male and 10 were female. The operation was carried out for a period of 4 months. In the course of lengthy proceedings, the doctors came to the conclusion that such an anomaly had become side effect taking pills for infertility.

In the same year, in Australia, a woman gave birth to 9 children - 5 boys and 4 girls. 2 boys were born dead, the rest of the children lived no more than a week.

AT different time in the middle of the twentieth century, reports came from China, Brazil and Spain about the birth of 10 children at once. There is no information about whether the babies survived or not.

In early 2009, a resident of the United States, Nadia Suleiman, gave birth to eight children at once. The media gave her the nickname "Octomam". The weight of six boys and two girls ranged from 800 to 1400 g. All children are alive and well. It is noteworthy that the American has never been married and before this birth she already had six children.

The largest number of children born to one woman

History knows a woman who gave birth to 69 children. The wife of a Russian peasant between 1725 and 1765 gave birth 27 times. The woman gave birth 4 times to 4 children, 7 times to 3 and 16 times to twins. All children, except for two, survived.

Another prolific mother is Leontina Albina from Chile. She gave birth to 55 children, and the first 5 times were born 3 babies and only boys.

The largest father in history

For some reason, all records relating to children are tied to mothers. However, history also knows the most large father - this is Yakov Kirillov. From his first marriage, he had 57 children, and from the second - 15. In total, it turns out that a man became a father 72 times. For this, in 1755 he was presented to the court at the age of 60.

Grandfather-record holder

Another man set a kind of record in the field of childbearing. This is a modern resident of Novokuznetsk Alexey Shapovalov. He is called the richest grandfather in the world. Alexey has 11 sons and two daughters, who gave him a total of 117 grandchildren. Those, in turn, have already managed to “reward” grandfather with 33 great-grandchildren.

The birth of one baby is a classic of the genre of nature regarding the Crown of Creation, man. However, "thanks" to our intervention in nature and the development of technology artificial insemination, multiple pregnancy no longer uncommon.

Twins and triplets are no longer a feature. Women give birth to five, eight and even 11 children at once. We offer to look at these courageous mothers, who at one time created a large, large family for themselves.

Identical 14-year-old twins were born in a quartet: Megan, Sarah, Kendra and Callie Durst became famous at the age of 6, and now star in a reality show about their lives.
According to 2005 data, 15 identical quadruplets were born in the world, 10 of them are sisters, but there are much more non-identical quadruplets. According to statistics, one quadruple falls on 700 thousand pregnancies.

The most famous, first and only case of the birth of five identical twins- Canadian Dionne family. The girls were born in 1934 and long years were a landmark of the province of Ontario, and according to the twins themselves, their fate was not enviable.

In 2013 in Salt Lake City was born five - 3 girls and 2 boys. It is noteworthy that the pregnancy occurred naturally.

Last year, 2016, 37-year-old Oksana Kobeletskaya from Odessa gave birth to five, although the couple were expecting twins.

Nkem Chukwu from Texas in December 1998 gave birth to eight at once. Moreover, on December 8 she gave birth to a girl, and on the 20th - 5 more girls and two boys (one of the babies died shortly after giving birth).

33-year-old Nadi Suliman in 2009 gave birth to eight twins at once - two girls and six boys. All children are alive and well, and this is the only case of the birth of an eight, where everyone survived.

Nineties were born in 1971, 1972, 1976, 1977, 1979 and 1999, however, unfortunately, none of these 54 children survived

Ten children - up to today was considered the largest number of children born from one pregnancy. In 1946, 8 girls and 2 boys were born in Brazil, there are also known cases of the birth of such a number of children in China in 1936 and in Spain in 1924. There is no information about whether the children survived.

42-year-old resident of the Indian city of Riley Maria Fernandez in 37 minutes, naturally, gave birth to 11 kids. All are perfectly healthy boys, six of which are identical twins. This phenomenon is listed in the Guinness Book of Records. Thus, today 11 children born from one pregnancy is an absolute record.

The largest number of children born to one mother, according to official data, 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, Leontina Albina (or Alvina) from San Antonio, Chile, who in 1943-81 is considered the most prolific mother. gave birth to 55 children. As a result of the first 5 pregnancies, she gave birth to triplets, and exclusively male.

Giving birth the most times

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

The largest number of multiple births in one family

Maddalena Pomegranate from Italy (b. 1839) had triplets born 15 times.

There is also information about the birth on May 29, 1971 in Philadelphia, pc. Pennsylvania, USA, and in May 1977 in Bagarhat, Bangladesh, 11 twins. In both cases, no child survived.

Most fertile pregnancies

Dr. Gennaro Montanino, Rome, Italy, claims to have removed, in July 1971, the embryos of 10 girls and 5 boys from the uterus of a 35-year-old woman who was 4 months pregnant. This unique case 15-fertility was a consequence of taking pills for infertility.

9 children - the largest number in one pregnancy - were born on June 13, 1971 by Geraldine Broadrick in Sydney, Australia. 5 boys and 4 girls were born: 2 boys were stillborn, and none of the rest survived more than 6 days.

The birth of 10 twins (2 boys and 8 girls) is known from reports from Spain (1924), China (1936) and Brazil (April 1946).

The largest father

by the most father of many children in the history of our country is considered the peasant of the village of Vvedensky Yakov Kirillov, who in 1755 in connection with this was presented to the court (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.