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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9478, 4 February 1907, Page 4

Ninety-four members of one family in a community of a little over twelve hundred souls must surely constitute a record. Such a family was represented in a photographic croup taken at the Athletic Ground, Collingwood, kelson, on New Years day, when Mr and Mrs John James, senr.. and their descendants were the subject of the camera. The group comprised sons and daughters, wives and husbands, twentyseven grandchildren, and fcVur great-grand-children. Jlr James, sour., was among "'l=l of the gold-seekers in Collingd'afterwards turned his attention to fanning. A large family of sons and daughters were reared and educated, who took up their positions among the second generation of the colony's pioneers, grandchildren and great-grandchildren following in due course, until the members have swelled to neariy a century of souls. The ious family is in his j —, „„.. _jther in Wr 7Sth. 'ar.d both still e'njov fairly gc-:d health.