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--Nancy.

How Many Children Did My Ancestors Have? - SNGF

Randy Seaver's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun this week suggested the following:

Thinking about your direct ancestors back through 2nd great-grandparents - in other words, ancestors #2 to #31 on your pedigree chart - how many children did they have?  How many lived long enough to marry?  How many died before age 10?

The information below is based on currently known information; more research may uncover additional children, marriages, or early deaths.

#2-3  Lee Doyle (1913-1987) and Audrey Victoria Meinzen (1915-1997)
3 children:  1 son, 1 married; 2 daughters, 2 married

#4-5  Gust Doyle (1888-1933) and Beulah Mae Gerner (1888-1913)
2 children:  1 son, 1 married; 1 daughter, 1 died before age 10

#6-7  William Carl Robert Meinzen (1892-1979) and Emma Virginia Bickerstaff (1893-1973)
4 children:  4 daughters, 3 married

#8-9  William Doyle (1863-1941) and Tressa Rose Froman (1856-1936)
3 children:  1 son, 1 married; 2 daughters, 2 married

#10-11  Fredrick K. Gerner (1848-1926) and Elvira Bartley (1854-1943)
16 children:  6 sons, 6 married; 10 daughters, 8 married, 2 died before age 10

#12-13  Henry Carl Meinzen (1837-1925) and Elizabeth Armitage (1862-1920)
15 children:  7 sons, 4 married, 1 died before age 10; 6 daughters, 6 married; 2 infants, gender unknown, died before age 10

#14-15  Edward Jesse Bickerstaff (1871-1945) and Mary Thompson (1872-1940)
9 children:  5 sons, 5 married; 4 daughters, 2 married, 1 died before age 10

#16-17  Andrew Doyle (1836-1908) and Elizabeth Jane Laws (1845-1910)
14 children:  7 sons, 5 married, 2 died before age 10; 7 daughters, 6 married, 1 died before age 10

#18-19  John Froman (1841-1871) and Catherine Saylor (1844-1928)
7 children:  4 sons, 4 married; 3 daughters, 3 married

#20-21  Christian Gerner (~1820-1899) and Elizabeth Stahl (~1824-????)
4 known children:  3 sons, 3 married; 1 daughter, married

#22-23  Dixon Bartley (1805-1900) and Rebecca Smith (1820-1899)
9 children:  4 sons, 3 married; 5 daughters, 4 married

#24-25  Carl Meinzen (dates unknown) and Unknown
2 known children:  2 sons, at least 1 married

#26-27  Abel Armitage (1821-????) and Eliza Hartley (1812-1856)
2 children:  2 daughters, 2 married

#28-29  Ellis H. Bickerstaff (1840-1907) and Emma P. or V. Nelson (~1845-1878)
4 children:  2 sons, 2 married; 2 daughters, 1 married, 1 died before age 5

#30-31  John Thompson (~1850-1823) and Lydia Bell (1851-1930)
9 children:  2 sons, 1 married, 1 died before age 5; 7 daughters, 5 known to have married

Observations

• These generations span the years from 1805 to the present, from earliest birth to children still alive, more than 200 years!  The births, however, span about 110 years (1839 to 1950).
  
• There were 104 children born in these four generations.  I suspect some families may have had more children if one of the spouses hadn't died early (#5 Beulah Gerner Doyle, #18 John Froman, #27 Eliza Hartley Armitage, and #29 Emma Nelson Bickerstaff).
• There were 50 males and 54 females born.

Thanks for the fun, Randy.  This was a great exercise to show gaps in families, holes in research.  Some of these families I researched 15 years ago when I was a beginner and when access to records was more difficult.  Further research now may uncover more information.

--Nancy.

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