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kirby’s wonderful museum.
mensions, were as perfectly formed as children born of the
usual size. Observer, June 16, 1811.
There is now living in a small village near Hornsea, North
Holderness, Yorkshire, a woman who has had three children
at a time, three different times ; twice four children at a
time, and five single births ; and but one girl among them
all. She was married at the age of eighteen, is now thirty-
five, and her-youngest child was on the 2d of April, 1812,
nine years old. She is of the middle size, a neat, dapper,
good-looking woman, and at present in good health. Her
children are all alive, excepting her only daughter, and a boy
who died young; the girl aged three years, and the boy
eleven months. And what is further remarkable, both these
w’ere single births. The truth of the above is certified by
Mr. John Day, parish clerk of Sigglesthorne; who has
known the person alluded to from childhood.
Boston Gazette, April 21, 1812.
On the 23d of April, 1812, Mrs. Alexander M‘ConnelI,
of Bangor, was safely delivered of four sons; and we are
happy to add, that the mother and her four fine little fellows
are doing well. Belfast News Letter.
On Friday se’nnight, the wife of William Satchwell,
button turner, of Walmer-lane, Birmingham, was delivered
of four children (three of them alive). The poor woman
and two of the children have every appearance of doing well.
Cumberland Packet, May 5, 1812.
March 12, 1813. The four boys of Gilbert Crown, and
Rose, his wife, of No. 16, Colchester-street, Whitechapel,
born on Sunday, March 7, 1813, (the same evening they
were all baptized by the Rev. Dr. Mathias, by the names of
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John ; they were rather small;)
are at present all living, and, with the mother, doing wrell.
This uncommon occurrence has excited much of public cu-
riosity, and has brought many visitors to the house, who have
not left it without proofs of their benevolence. The father,
kirby’s wonderful museum.
mensions, were as perfectly formed as children born of the
usual size. Observer, June 16, 1811.
There is now living in a small village near Hornsea, North
Holderness, Yorkshire, a woman who has had three children
at a time, three different times ; twice four children at a
time, and five single births ; and but one girl among them
all. She was married at the age of eighteen, is now thirty-
five, and her-youngest child was on the 2d of April, 1812,
nine years old. She is of the middle size, a neat, dapper,
good-looking woman, and at present in good health. Her
children are all alive, excepting her only daughter, and a boy
who died young; the girl aged three years, and the boy
eleven months. And what is further remarkable, both these
w’ere single births. The truth of the above is certified by
Mr. John Day, parish clerk of Sigglesthorne; who has
known the person alluded to from childhood.
Boston Gazette, April 21, 1812.
On the 23d of April, 1812, Mrs. Alexander M‘ConnelI,
of Bangor, was safely delivered of four sons; and we are
happy to add, that the mother and her four fine little fellows
are doing well. Belfast News Letter.
On Friday se’nnight, the wife of William Satchwell,
button turner, of Walmer-lane, Birmingham, was delivered
of four children (three of them alive). The poor woman
and two of the children have every appearance of doing well.
Cumberland Packet, May 5, 1812.
March 12, 1813. The four boys of Gilbert Crown, and
Rose, his wife, of No. 16, Colchester-street, Whitechapel,
born on Sunday, March 7, 1813, (the same evening they
were all baptized by the Rev. Dr. Mathias, by the names of
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John ; they were rather small;)
are at present all living, and, with the mother, doing wrell.
This uncommon occurrence has excited much of public cu-
riosity, and has brought many visitors to the house, who have
not left it without proofs of their benevolence. The father,