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[Tomk]

In honor of Mothers Day... let's do some Mother trivial -

• How old was the oldest recorded mother in modern times?
• What is the record of the most children born to one woman?
• Shortest time between birth of siblings - in separate events (not twins, triplets... etc.)?
• What is the longest time between successive siblings?
• What is the record for the most number of children born on the same date but different years?

[terry1966]

How old was the oldest recorded mother in modern times?

i seem to remember reading about that not many years ago, i'm sure she was in her early 70's..

all guesses..

1: 72
2: 23
3: 4 months.
4: 36 years
5: this to the same mother? anyway guess 5.

[Tomk]

Nice guesses terry... but none of them are correct. #5 - Yes. I meant to one mother.

[terry1966]

well i don't want to resort to google just yet so more guesses. 1:- 71 2:- 28 3:- 3 months 4:- 41 years 5:- 8

[Tomk]

Let's call #4 close enough. Elizabeth Ann Buttle gave birth to Belinda on May 19, 1957 and Joseph on November 20, 1997. That makes them 41 years 185 days apart.

[terry1966]

ok 1 out of 5 so far.

1:- 73
2:- 31
3:- 5 months
5:- 9

Elizabeth Ann Buttle gave birth to Belinda on May 19, 1957 and Joseph on November 20, 1997. That makes them 41 years 185 days apart.

you sure i make that 40 years and a few months not 41 years and a few months.

Edited by terry1966, 15 May 2012 - 11:10 PM.

[Tomk]

That's because I didn't check my typing.

Belinda was born on May 19, 1956

[terry1966]

i take it those last lot of guesses are wrong then.. can you give some clues and say highr or lower for those last numbers and then i'll stop guessing for a while and give some others a chance based on my figures and your clues. a thought popped into my head about that siblings question 3, for some reason 2 weeks or 2 hours stuck but i can't for the life of me think why, after all i would of thought that was impossible and the time would be somewhere along the lines of a few months and an emergency birth. shrugs.

Edited by terry1966, 16 May 2012 - 09:13 AM.

[Tomk]

OK.... some "critique" of your answers.

ok 1 out of 5 so far.

1:- 73 - too old
2:- 31 - Not enough
3:- 5 months - Not long enough... and be more specific. Days or at least weeks.
5:- 9 - Too many

[oldman960]

1. 70 2. 48 3. 25 weeks 5. 3 (I do know of one case of 2)

[Tomk]

#1 - Well done OM960 Rajo Devi Lohan gave birth in India November 2008, at the age of 70 to her first child. #2 - Nope. More. #3 - Nope. Longer. #5 - Well done OM960 Jenna Cotton gave birth to three children on the same date - October 2. Her son, Ayden, arrived on Oct. 2, 2003; son Logan was born Oct. 2, 2006, and daughter Kayla was born Tuesday, which was Oct. 2, 2007. The odds of a family having three children born on the same date in different years are about 7.5 in 1 million.

[oldman960]

To keep this a game like terry1966 I didn't use google. for #1 i remember hearing it on the news, couldn't remember where or when though. #5, the family I know of with the 2 is sorta famous so if 2 was the record I'm sure I wold have remembered that so I added 1.

#2 - Nope. More.

Obviously this woman didn't know her place was in the kitchen....


2. 51 or 54 stick in my mind
3. I'll add 4 weeks to that and guess 29 weeks

[terry1966]

grrrrr so close with my first guess of 71, so not low 70's but 70., bloody memory. more than 48 kids.. must be lots of multiply births then. 2 -1 to oldman.. grrrr i'll guess 2:- 49 3:- 27 weeks

[Tomk]

#2 - Still more. She did have lots of multiple births. Hint - There were a total of 27 "events". #3 - OM960 is closest so far.

[oldman960]

2. 63 3. 31 weeks