 A good crowd last night at Loose school near Maidstone to hear me talk about tracing Kentish ancestors. Some people were rather amused to discover that my great-grandfather Charles Elvy Wright and King George III shared something in common: they each produced 15 children in 23 years! No way really of stopping babies in those times, and of course innumerable Victorian families had a dozen or more children, even if a proportion died as infants. How times have changed, now that even three or four are considered an expense.
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