BIG FAMILIES
BIRTH RATE BOOM COALFIELDS COMPETITION LONDON, Nov. 2.". A unique dispute has shaken the South Yorkshire coalfields where mining villages are arguing which is able to show the largest family. It began when a miner's wife residing at Denaby bore her nineteenth child, but Blnekcrhill possesses neighbors who are both fathers of 22. Another resident, with 17, offered to field a football team to play any other 11 brothers, but Mrs. Austen, residing at Platts Common, put everyone else in the shade with her 24, besides four adopted children. One son weighs 16i stone, and a daughter 18: stone.
Mrs. Austen says, '.'My children are out to beat my record. One of my daughters already has 12 children, and two others 11 each."
Nevertheless, the Austens aro anxiously watching a neighboring family which has had twins and triplets within 13 months.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16209, 6 December 1926, Page 7
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143BIG FAMILIES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16209, 6 December 1926, Page 7
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