[Verginius Rufus]

One of mine was born in 1835. He was 49 when my grandfather was born.

[Inyo-Mono]

I think it was pretty common back in those days when 10 to 12 children per family was the norm. My great-grandfather was around 46 when my grandfather was born in 1879.

[Tax-chick]

You gentlemen have just noticed that births to parents in their 40s and older are natural! (So are births to parents in their ‘teens.)

[Verginius Rufus]

My great-grandfather who was born in 1835 got married for the first time at 41 and had 9 children by two wives (5 of the children survived to adulthood)--he was in his late 50s when the youngest child was born. The father of that great-grandfather was born in 1780 so he was 55 when the son I am descended from was born.

One of my more distant ancestors had 21 children by three wives--the youngest child was born when he was 73. She was only 5 years old when he died.