It makes you appreciate how fortunate we are now to live in a time when a couple can have two or three children and see them all survive to adulthood. I wonder how many children of theirs actually survived.
They lost eight children in eighteen years. If they had children at the rate of one a year- which is quite feasible- they might have had ten who survived.
I imagine they were a farming family, living in an old stone house in the middle of the moors. Oldham was an isolated, hard-bitten, rural community before the industrial revolution came along and transformed it.
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I imagine they were a farming family, living in an old stone house in the middle of the moors. Oldham was an isolated, hard-bitten, rural community before the industrial revolution came along and transformed it.