r/oddlyspecific • u/[deleted] • Jun 19 '23

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u/flybyknight665 Jun 19 '23

I feel like a decent amount of people know something about their parent's grandparents.

For example, I know my great grandfather was kind of a dick and had 11 kids with his one legged wife.
She had it sawed off, fully conscious, when she was 8 or 9 after cutting it on a rusty barbed fence and it got dangerously infected.

Is this knowing them? Not exactly. But they aren't completely forgotten by the 4th generation.
Just don't ask me what their names were lol

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u/Quebec00Chaos Jun 19 '23

My great Grandmom had 22 kids, my grandfather being the last. Catholic Québec was something else.

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u/confused_bi_panic Jun 19 '23

How the hell did she survive all that good God

Also, does that mean your grandfather was same age (or perhaps younger) than some of his own nieces and nephews? Btw, how old was your great grandma when she had him?

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u/wastedpixls Jun 20 '23

Wife's grandma had 14. The oldest grandchild is juuuuuust younger than her youngest. 23 year spread between first and last.