![]() (King Olav’s son, Harald V, inherited the throne and is still living he turns 86 later this month.)īut in 1903, a number of Vic and Al’s descendants had already died, so the moment when Victoria and Albert’s living descendants exceeded a hundred was when Princess Ileana of Romania was born on 5 January 1909 (23 December 1908 by the old calendar). His son then ruled as King Olav V of Norway until his death in 1991 at the age of 87. In 1905, Norway became independent and elected Prince Carl as the country’s new king he ruled as King Haakon VIII until his death in 1957 at the age of 85. He was the only child of Princess Maud, the fifth of the six children of King Edward VII, and Prince Carl of Denmark. Victoria and Albert’s hundredth descendant was born on 2 July 1903 as Prince Alexander of Denmark, though that is not how he is known to history. He had seven children between 18, ruled Germany from 1888 to 1918 and died on 4 June 1941 aged 82. He was born on 27 January 1859, a year after his parents’ wedding. Victoria and Albert’s tenth descendant was the first grandchild born after their nine children together, none other than Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, the son of Princess Victoria and the short-lived Emperor Frederick III. She had eight children, born between 18, and died on 5 August 1901, aged 61 (outliving her mother by less than a year). Their first child, and therefore first descendant, was “ Vicky“, the Princess Royal and later briefly Empress of Germany, born on 21 November 1840, nine and a half months after her parents’ wedding on 10 February. I’ve plotted the increase in both total and living descendants on a log scale in the graph above. Vic and Al had nine children, all but one of whom had kids themselves 42 grandchildren, 87 great-grandchildren and 142 great-great-grandchildren. ![]() Allan Raymond has a fantastic website investigating this, which appears to be complete up to early 2019. One of the best chronicled lines of descent over the past 180 years, albeit of very rich white Europeans, is that of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. ![]() These things are of course very dependent on time, place and social class, but I am hoping for a metric which would at least allow a rough comparison of rates of increase. While my Hibbard great-great-grandfather has many living descendants, more than half of them are from his oldest surviving child (who also married early and thus got ahead of the game) his younger son’s living descendants are me, my two siblings and our five children, a total of eight after four generations. My Hibbard great-great-grandparents had five children, of whom one died young and another never married ten grandchildren, five of whom have living descendants sixteen great-grandchildren, ten of whom have descendants (and two are still living) and twenty-three great-great-grandchildren, including me and Sally Seaver. Me and the first of my grandfather’s great-great-grandchildren. My Murray grandfather had nine children by two marriages, seven of whom are still living I am the oldest of his twenty-two grandchildren between us we have I think twenty-eight great-grandchildren and the first two of the next generation arrived in the last couple of years. One of the things that lurks at the back of my genealogical / DNA research is the question of how rapidly lines of descent can be expected to increase.
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