IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS.
THE BIRTH OF A NATION. Italy's boast of five families each with over 30 children would not have seemed so remarkable a few centuries ago. when huge families were common in Great Britain, and especially in Ireland. In “King James’ Irish Army List'’ it is recorded that Donogh O’Carroll presented to the Karl of Ormonde for the Royal cause a troop of cavalry “consisting of his thirty sons, properlymounted and accoutred in habiliments of war.” Most of those sons faithfully followed the wanderings of the Stuarts until their death. Swinburne, too, used to be curiously proud of the fact that one of his ancestresses had borne 30 children.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXI, Issue 2342, 28 October 1926, Page 7
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113IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS. King Country Chronicle, Volume XXI, Issue 2342, 28 October 1926, Page 7
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