IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS
THE BIRTH OF >A NiATHO'N. Italy's tobast of five families each wfth ovfcir 30 children would not have seemed so remartcable a few cfemturies ago, when huge famillies were common in Graft, Britain, and especially in Irelandi. In "King Janites' Irish Army (List" it is recorded that iDonagh O'Cairroll presented to the Earl of Ormonde for the ißoyal cause a ftroop of cavalry "consisting of his thirty sons, property mounted and accoutred in hatoitfm'tints of war." , 'Most of those sons faithfully followed t'he wanderings of the Stuarts until their death. Swintou|rne, too, used' to foe -curiously proud of the fact that one of his ancestresses had tobrne 30 children.
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1926, 26 October 1926, Page 7
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