Later she again bore twins, both of whom died. She then
miscarried with triplets, and afterward gave birth to 12 living
children, as follows: July 24, 1858, 1 child; June 30, 1859, 2
children; March 24, 1860, 2 children; March 1, 1861, 3 children;
February 13, 1862, 4 children; making a total of 21 children in
eighteen years, with remarkable prolificity in the later
pregnancies. She was never confined to her bed more than three
days, and the children were all healthy.
A woman in Schlossberg, Germany, gave birth to twins; after a
year, to triplets, and again, in another year, to 3 fairly strong
boys. In the State Papers, Domestic Series, Charles I, according
to Walford, appears an extract from a letter from George Garrard
to Viscount Conway, which is as follows: "Sir John Melton, who
entertained you at York, hath buried his wife, Curran's daughter.
Within twelve months she brought him 4 sons and a daughter, 2
sons last summer, and at this birth 2 more and a daughter, all
alive." Swan mentions a woman who gave birth to 6 children in
seventeen months in 2 triple pregnancies. The first terminated
prematurely, 2 children dying at once, the other in five weeks.
The second was uneventful, the 3 children living at the time of
the report.
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