FOUR SETS OF TWINS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 80, 16 January 1936, Page 3

FOUR SETS OF TWINS.

UNEMPLOYED MAN'S FAMILY In a 300-year-old wooden cottage at Lower Higham, near Graves End, Kent live the Wakefields—mother, father, and 11 children. Fight cf the children are twins—four sets of them. A twelfth child lives with a relative. The cottage has only a small living room, two bedrooms and a kitchen. The children sleep five in. a bed. "But the council are going to build a brand new houso for us," said Mrs Wakefield, a strongly-built, dark woman, to a "Sunday Express" representative.

"The. children are all little darlings I wouldn't be without them for any money in the world. My grandmother was a twin. My sister had twins, but they died. My brother's wife had twins, but they died too. "All that may have had something to do with it," said Mrs Wakefield, doubtfully. "But I don't know. What is to be will be, 1 always say. My first child was a girl. Then I had another girl. They're 16 and 14 now. Then 1 had twin boys. They're 12 years old. Next there came two boys, with two years between them. "After that 1 had twin girls, now aged eight. A year later I had more twin girls, and two years after I had another pair of, twill girls, now five years old. '• A nice family lor a woman of 40, isn't it? I wish we had a little more money, though even if I'm nut ungrateful for what we have. "Very little conies in, as my husband is unemployed, and cur bread bill alone comes to lis a week. It takes £3 a. week to keep the children as they should be kept, I've had to send one of them to my sister at Sheppey.'