There was a case of a woman in America who in twenty-six years gave birth to 22 children, all at single births.

Thoresby in his "History of Leeds," 1715, mentions three remarkable cases--one the wife of Dr.Phineas Hudson, Chancellor of York, as having died in her thirty-ninth year of her twenty-fourth child; another of Mrs.Joseph Cooper, as dying of her twenty-sixth child, and, lastly, of Mrs.
William Greenhill, of a village in Hertford, England, who gave birth to 39 children during her life.

Brand, a writer of great repute, in his "History of Newcastle," quoted by Walford, mentions as a well attested fact the wife of a Scotch weaver who bore 62 children by one husband, all of whom lived to be baptized.
A curious epitaph is to be seen at Conway, Carnarvonshire-- "Here lieth the body of Nicholas Hookes, of Conway, gentleman, who was one-and-fortieth child of his father, William Hookes, Esq., by Alice, his wife, and the father of 27 children.

He died 20th of March, 1637." On November 21, 1768, Mrs.Shury, the wife of a cooper, in Vine Street, Westminster, was delivered of 2 boys, making 26 by the same husband.
She had previously been confined with twins during the year.
It would be the task of a mathematician to figure the possibilities of paternity in a man of extra long life who had married several prolific women during his prolonged period of virility.

A man by the name of Pearsons of Lexton, Nottingham, at the time of the report had been married 4 times.