I was looking for the most children in one family for this week's theme and without going back to colonial New England, I think that my third great-grandparents, George Lysle and Margaret McIlwaine had the most children of any ancestor in the past 200 years or so.
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The very basic information about the family comes from a printed family tree from the late 1930s that has been passed down in the family which I shared in May 2013.
The Children:
Mary Ann Lysle (1825-1889) never married and is found living with her parents in Allegheny County throughout her life. She died of typhoid fever just before her 65th birthday and is buried in the Lysle plot at Union Dale Cemetery, Pittsburgh.
John Wilson Lysle (1826-1879) married twice (Elizabeth Bond and Mary Frances Corbley) and had nine children, one with his first wife and eight with his second. He was an early settler of Washington Territory (Coveland, Island County), where he farmed. For the last ten years or so of his life, he lived in Pennsylvania and Kentucky and worked as a coal merchant, likely as part of his father's company. After his death, his widow and several of his children returned to Washington, which became a state in 1889.
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| From The Cincinnati Enquirer, 24 June 1879. |
Sarah Jane Lysle (1827?-????) appears as a tic mark (representing a female age 10-15) in her father's 1840 census record when she was about 13. By 1850, she had either married or died.
Origan (also known as Orr) Augustus Lysle (1829-1880) married twice and had seven children, I believe all with his first wife, Margaret Ann Kephart. He lived primarily in Allegheny County and worked as a steamboat captain. He died in Pittsburgh of consumption.
James M. Lysle (1831-1862) died in the Civil War. A G.A.R. post in Allegheny was named for him.
Addison Lysle (1834-1908) married three times and had five children, one with his first wife Carrie Patton, one with his second wife, Annie Haslen, and three with his third wife, Maria Hayes. He lived most of his life in Allegheny County and worked as a coal merchant for the family firm. He lived in Los Angeles for the last few years of his life, where he died in 1908.
Thompson Lysle (1835-1872) married Salina Whigham (sister of James, below) and had two children. He also lived in Allegheny County and worked as a coal merchant for the family firm. He died in San Diego, California, of consumption.
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| From the San Diego News, 10 December 1872 |
Isabel (Isabella, Belle) Lysle (1837-1924) married James Whigham (brother of Salina, above) and had no children. She was widowed in 1886 and is often found in later records with her sisters Caroline and Eliza. She died in New York City of pneumonia.
Margaret Jane Lysle (1839-1868) never married and lived with her parents throughout her life.
Caroline Lysle (1841-1914) never married. I wrote about her at Maiden Aunts Carrie and Eliza. She died in Washington, D.C.
George Lysle, Jr. (1845-1900), my second great-grandfather, married twice and had four children. (See a photo of the two eldest.) I wrote about him as part of 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks in 2015.
Eliza Lysle (1847-1928) never married. I wrote about her at Maiden Aunts Carrie and Eliza. The last surviving sibling, she died in Pittsburgh of stomach cancer.
I descend from George and Margaret as follows:
This week's theme is Most.
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