They Do More Before They're Born Than Most People Do...

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 FAMILIES OF JOHANNES JOHN PICKARD (1760-1827)

  
 ANNA ROSINA COUNTRYMAN (1740-1786)
 Nicholas Pickard, b. 1752
 Anna Pickard, b. 1754
 Maria Margaret Pickard, b. 1756
 John Pickard, b. 1766

 MAGDALENA MARGARET GARLOCK (1767-1851)

 Nicholas Pickard, b. 1752

 Anna Pickard, b. 1754

 Maria Margaret Pickard, b. 1756

 John Pickard, b. 1766

 Maria Madgelena Pickard, b. 1784

 Charity Gertrude Pickard, b. 1785

 Adam Pickard, b. 1786

 Catherine Pickard, b. 1789

 Charity Gertrude Pickard, b. 1789

 Peter Pickard, b. 1791

 James Pickard, b. 1793

 Bartholomew Pickard, b. 1797

 Nancy Pickard, b. 1798

 Nicholas Pickard, b. 1799

 Sylvanus Pickard, b. 1800

 Abraham J. Pickard, b. 1801

 Henry Pickard, b. 1803

 Albert Pickard, b. 1807

 Porter Pickard, b. 1832

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A 20 year age difference is not that unusual IF both people have actually been born at the time of the marriage. Of course having children born to the marriage is much more likely if the husband is the one who is 20 years older. It also helps if a man has himself been born before he starts fathering children. And the mother? Yeah, it's a good idea if she's born before her kids are. It's also much easier on the mother if she's not giving birth at 65 years old after being a widow for 5 years. I'll spare you the necrophilia jokes and my ruminations on how she got pregnant with her husband's child 5 years after his death.
Do I need to say it? There are no sources attached except other trees. Of course they all have impeccable research so you should copy them. (Someone please create a sarcasm font!) According to some of those other trees Anna Rosina is the mother of John Pickard, others have her married to a different John Pickard/Pickart/Pickert, still others have her married to a different John and have them as parents of the above John.
Out of the first 200 trees to show up in search results for Anna Rosina Countryman one, ONE, has a record attached. (Another looks like it has a record attached but the record is One World Tree so that doesn't really count :-P) That one tree has one record, an SAR membership application. So maybe the person with that one record actually tried...

 JOHN PICKARD (????-1783) 
     & 
 ANNA ROSINA BARBARA COUNTRYMAN (1743-1786) 

 Married in 1750        

 CHILDREN

 Conrad Pickard, b. 1727 

 Nicholas Pickard, b. 1752

 Anna Pickard, b. 1754

 Maria Margretha Pickard, b. 1756 

 Jacob Pickard, b. 1758

 Johannas Pickard, b. 1760

 Henry Pickard, b. 1760

 Isaac Pickard, b. 1762

 George Pickard, b. 1765

 John Pickard, b. 1766

 Hartman Pickard, b. 1770

 Jacob Pickard, b. 1772

 Conrad Pickard, b. 1774
 Maria Elizabeth Pickard, b. 1775
 Catherine Pickard, b. 1789
 Peter Pickard, b. 1790
 Adam Pickard, b. 1791
 James Pickard, b. 1794
 John Pickard, b. 1796
 Nancy Pickard, b. 1797
 Bartholomew Pickard, b. 1797
 Sylvanus Pickard, b. 1800
 Jacobus Pickard, b. 1801
 Henry Pickard, b. 1803
 Albert Pickard, b. 1807
 Abraham John Pickard, b. 1810

Or maybe that was wishful thinking on my part. Sigh.
So according to this second profile Anna Rosina's timeline looks something like this:

 AGE         EVENT

 -16          gave birth to first child

 0             was born herself

 7             got married

 9             gave birth to second child

 11           gave birth to third child

 13           gave birth to fourth child

 15 to 43   gave birth to 10 more children

 43           died

 46 to 67  continued to have children, TWELVE children

Four children by age 13, nowadays that would mean you get a reality show or you'd be locked up in the Mayo Clinic and studied. Seriously though, how do this many mistakes go unnoticed?!!?

Hat tip to Genette for the heads up about the first profile ;-)


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