One of my ancestresses was buried in Battersea in 1803. The burial register gives her age as 65, which makes her birth year 1738.
She had her first child in 1767 and her last child in 1788. If she was really born in 1738 she'd have had her last child at age 50. This is not impossible, but highly unlikely... or is it?
Your opinions/thoughts, please: do you have female relatives who've given birth at a similarly late age? Or is the balance of probability that the burial register is wrong and that she was born quite a few years after 1738? (There's a 1741 birth that might be her, but still makes her quite a mature Mum...)
Thanks,
Belinda
She had her first child in 1767 and her last child in 1788. If she was really born in 1738 she'd have had her last child at age 50. This is not impossible, but highly unlikely... or is it?
Your opinions/thoughts, please: do you have female relatives who've given birth at a similarly late age? Or is the balance of probability that the burial register is wrong and that she was born quite a few years after 1738? (There's a 1741 birth that might be her, but still makes her quite a mature Mum...)
Thanks,
Belinda
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