West Gippsland Gazette (Warragul, Vic. : 1898 - 1930), Tuesday 19 July 1904, page 5


SEVEN LIVING GENERATIONS. IN ONE FAMILY. The recent birth of a baby has placed a family at Yeadon, Leeds, in the remlirkable position of having representatives of five generations living at the same time. This is no doubt- a most creditable retord, but it is one that has been badly beaten more than once. A few years ago the following remarkable letter appeared in the columns of the "StandSard," referring to an experience of the correspondent in Newfoundland in 1849: "I there saw in a fisherman's tilt seven generations, all females. The youngest was a newlyborn infant; its mother was twelve years of age; its grandmother twenty-six; and so upward. The age of the great - great - great-grandmother was such as to render it quite possible that before she died she might see a member of an eighth generation." At Byfelt, Massachusetts, there was living in 1887 a family of the name of Kent with living representatives of six generations; and a few years ago, at Skillington, near Grantham, there were five generations of a family all very much alive, beginning with Thomas Duflin, a hale veteran of ninety-six, and ending with George Duffin, his greatgreat-grandson, a boy of six. -An Englishman shooting small game in Germany remarked to his hbeost that there was a spice of danger in shooting in America. "Ah," said the host, "you like danger mit your sport? Den you go out shooting mit me. De last time I shoot mine brudder-ln-law in the arm!"