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| Mom wrote the local history books of her native township and others, so spent a lot of time studying the census records that are 100+ years old. At that time it was typical for every farmhouse up and down the concession roads to have at least six children or likely more (and that's not counting the children that had already died young).
Quite often the census will list a household as having full range of kids ages from infant to late teens. But the head of the household might fib to the census taker to keep the family pride. Some of the children might actually be grandchildren. It might have been kept a secret for a long time from the youngest child that its much-older sister is in fact its mother. | |
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Family secrets that give you the shivers
