LARGE FAMILIES

Patea Mail, Volume XLVIII, 21 January 1927, Page 3

LARGE FAMILIES

THREE SETS OF TWINS. arrival of her third sot of twins eh; .aided in a cablegram from Berlin lias increased the family of a Cologne gravedigger’s wife to 2-1 and made it the largest family in Germany. The frail’s achievement has been closely approached in New Zealand. The largest number of children born to a New Zealand family, according to the latest completed returns, was 20. The age of the mother was i>2, and the duration* of the marriage was 32 years. The returns quote the case of a family of 17 as that of the greatest number of surviving children of one family. The ago of the mother in this case was 47, and the marriage had reached the 29th year. In the same returns it was noticed there were nearly 400 New Zealand families where the number of ■surviving children exceeded 12.