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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22164, 18 January 1934, Page 4

For heat, brightness, dependability— Knitangata Coal. Insist on having it.— Advt. ... Two brothers who married two sisters at Lille, France, on February 1, 1830, have to-day 835 living descendants, according to a story published in a French newspaper. The two brothers wepe Auguste and Alfred Dcscamps and their wives, Marie Ange and Clemence Danel. Auguste and Marie Ange have 405 descendants and Alfred and Clemonce have 430. At a mass in honour of their ancestors, 142 members of the. first group were present. The family record shows an average of five children to every marriage, and what -is most ‘remarkable is that these two sturdy families have managed to maintain and improve to a remarkable .extent;in all ; their branches, both their social position and their patrimony, < : 1