Peter,
Yes, I found the 12 births in 10 years family after discovering the parents in two censuses, 10 years apart, with a son under a year old named John. Off to the birth records, and I found all 12. The mother died shortly after, in her early thirties.
My mother's father came from a small coastal town in south-west Wales, a picture-postcard sort of place with a harbour for some fishing boats. I didn't realise when, as a child, we visited an aunt's lovely cottage on a path to the beach, that 100 yards in the other direction was an iron works, and on the headland there was a coal mine. Looking at the census records for the village, anyone whose age was in double figures, male or female, was a labourer in the mine or in the iron works. The coal seam was only about 18 inches thick, so they employed children to work it to save digging out more waste material. That practice was stopped in the 1880s when a group of children, including a girl of 11, were killed in a collapse.
Pete
Yes, I found the 12 births in 10 years family after discovering the parents in two censuses, 10 years apart, with a son under a year old named John. Off to the birth records, and I found all 12. The mother died shortly after, in her early thirties.
My mother's father came from a small coastal town in south-west Wales, a picture-postcard sort of place with a harbour for some fishing boats. I didn't realise when, as a child, we visited an aunt's lovely cottage on a path to the beach, that 100 yards in the other direction was an iron works, and on the headland there was a coal mine. Looking at the census records for the village, anyone whose age was in double figures, male or female, was a labourer in the mine or in the iron works. The coal seam was only about 18 inches thick, so they employed children to work it to save digging out more waste material. That practice was stopped in the 1880s when a group of children, including a girl of 11, were killed in a collapse.
Pete
