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Help[Opinions] Re: French Sibset in Action
in reply to a message by namebug
Those aren't children under the women's names, are they? Francois Maxime (gorgeous!) couldn't have had 20 children. I realize that in the past many children didn't survive and so a list of children can appear larger than what we would assume it is today. But still. 20 pregnancies? I'm going with the interpretation that the names under the women are HER ancestors. Whew! (Your posts are blowing my brain's computer chips.)
The names are as gorgeous today as ever. Henriette and Francois Maxime are my favorites. Did someone really name a child Louis Napoleon?
A stellar list of names to draw upon. You are very lucky.
The names are as gorgeous today as ever. Henriette and Francois Maxime are my favorites. Did someone really name a child Louis Napoleon?
A stellar list of names to draw upon. You are very lucky.
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Yes, the names listed under the wives are all the children of Francois Maxime! He had nine with his first wife Osithe (one was stillborn, they named her though), and then twelve with his second wife Marguerite. I know a few of the children died young. I'll edit the main post with the actual dates to give you an idea.
The more I research my family history and see all these amazing French names the more I start to like them. Even ones such as Edwige start growing on me...
The more I research my family history and see all these amazing French names the more I start to like them. Even ones such as Edwige start growing on me...
This message was edited 6/24/2009, 3:46 PM
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Twenty children? Believe it!
I live in a French-speaking area of Canada, northern New Brunswick, and this did happen. Not now, certainly, but a few generations back. Twenty is a lot (understatement!, but 13, 14, 15 children was not uncommon.
People married early, the men as well as the women.
It must have been hard! Imagine, being pregnant for more than twenty years, pretty much.
One would say, the big kids looked after the little ones, and I suppose that did happen, but not all the time. The boys had to go to work as soon as possible, and indeed so did the girls, or else the girls, in their turn, also married young.
I live in a French-speaking area of Canada, northern New Brunswick, and this did happen. Not now, certainly, but a few generations back. Twenty is a lot (understatement!, but 13, 14, 15 children was not uncommon.
People married early, the men as well as the women.
It must have been hard! Imagine, being pregnant for more than twenty years, pretty much.
One would say, the big kids looked after the little ones, and I suppose that did happen, but not all the time. The boys had to go to work as soon as possible, and indeed so did the girls, or else the girls, in their turn, also married young.
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