I have Martha Lawton who had 19 children in 25 years. The first six died within 3 weeks of each other, of smallpox. The family seem to be the only ones in the village to die of smallpox. She then had 13 more children, only 3 survived to adulthood. Of those 3, one died childless, one vanishes from the records and I am descended from the other one, who only had one child. Martha was a widow for 40 years and outlived them all, dying at 84.
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