At Litchfield, Conn., there is said to be the following
inscription:--
"Here lies the body of Mrs. Mary, wife of Dr. John Bull, Esq. She
died November 4, 1778, aetat. ninety, having had 13 children, 101
grandchildren, 274 great grandchildren, and 22 great-great
grandchildren, a total of 410; surviving, 336."
In Esher Church there is an inscription, scarcely legible, which
records the death of the mother of Mrs. Mary Morton on April 18,
1634, and saying that she was the wonder of her sex and age, for
she lived to see nearly 400 issued from her loins.
The following is a communication to "Notes and Queries," March
21, 1891: "Mrs. Mary Honeywood was daughter and one of the
coheiresses of Robert Waters, Esq., of Lenham, in Kent. She was
born in 1527; married in February, 1543, at sixteen years of age,
to her only husband, Robert Honeywood, Esq., of Charing, in Kent.
She died in the ninety-third year of her age, in May, 1620. She
had 16 children of her own body, 7 sons and 9 daughters, of whom
one had no issue, 3 died young--the youngest was slain at Newport
battle, June 20, 1600. Her grandchildren, in the second
generation, were 114; in the third, 228, and in the fourth, 9; so
that she could almost say the same as the distich doth of one of
the Dalburg family of Basil: 'Rise up, daughter and go to thy
daughter, for thy daughter's daughter hath a daughter.
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