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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1285, 15 October 1896, Page 12

The case of ftirs Emma Hare, who told a London Magistrate the other day that she had had twenty-seven children, was striking enough, but that of three sisters who lived in Kingston, Jamaica, is perhaps more remarka ble. These sisters had respectively nineteen, twenty and twenty-one children each, but, unlike Mrs Hare, who lost most of them at an early age, these sisters succeeded in rearing the whole of their families, and on certain occasions all the sixty children with their parents—sixty-six souls in all —have met in the celebration of some family event. It may be interesting to mention the additional fact that these ladies were members of the Jewish persuasion, a race which, it is well known, is renowned for the size of its families, as are also the inhabitants of the island in which these he to worthy families were horn,