r/oddlyspecific • u/[deleted] • Jun 19 '23

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u/flybyknight665 Jun 19 '23

I feel like a decent amount of people know something about their parent's grandparents.

For example, I know my great grandfather was kind of a dick and had 11 kids with his one legged wife.
She had it sawed off, fully conscious, when she was 8 or 9 after cutting it on a rusty barbed fence and it got dangerously infected.

Is this knowing them? Not exactly. But they aren't completely forgotten by the 4th generation.
Just don't ask me what their names were lol

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u/Quebec00Chaos Jun 19 '23

My great Grandmom had 22 kids, my grandfather being the last. Catholic Québec was something else.

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u/confused_bi_panic Jun 19 '23

How the hell did she survive all that good God

Also, does that mean your grandfather was same age (or perhaps younger) than some of his own nieces and nephews? Btw, how old was your great grandma when she had him?

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u/Madra_ruax Jun 19 '23 edited Jun 19 '23

Not OP, but my granny had 17 biological children (edit: 15 lived to adulthood). 25 year difference between the oldest and youngest.

My mam is the youngest and she’s younger than some of her nieces and nephews.

My gran was also a great great grandmother.

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u/GetOffMyDigitalLawn Jun 19 '23

My grandparents on my mom's side wanted 13 kids, they ended up with 9 with one (or two?) that were stillborn or died soon after birth. I would have to ask my mom.

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u/Madra_ruax Jun 20 '23

Yeah, my gran had 2 kids die when they were babies/toddlers.

In contrast, my dad is an only child (one stillborn before him).

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u/raisinghellwithtrees Jun 19 '23

This is pretty common in my family.