end of the line

[Kit]

I found a transcription of a family bible online that is somehow connected to OH's family. I think the wife/mother in the transcription is the sister of OH's 4g grandfather but I can't prove that yet. However a son of the couple married the daughter of the 4g grandfather. That is fact.

The couple have 16 children (7 females, 9 males). 14 of the children survived to adulthood, the remaining 2 I have not yet found so may have survived. Not one female married, only 3 males married and only one of those (married to OH's 3g aunt) had any children.

Many of the sisters lived together, on and off, according to the census and 2 of the younger brothers also lived together.

It is strange that given there were 16 children to start with that it appears only one of them went on to have a family of their own. They had 2 children, the first 10 years after marriage. Those 2 daughters did not have children of their own, one did not marry and the other married her cousin's husband, after the cousin died.

I know lines die out but it is sad to see.