Australia's biggest family is about to get even bigger. Supermum Jeni Bonell, from Queensland's Toowoomba, and her husband Ray are already proud parents of 16 children - aged between 29 and four.
Australia's biggest family is welcoming another addition. Jeni and Ray Bonell have 16 children, and will soon welcome another grandchild to the clan thanks to their eldest daughter, Brooke Matthews, who is expecting her second child later this year with partner Jamie.
Australia's Biggest Family | Jeni and Ray Bonell have 16 CHILDREN and their family is still growing!
Jeni Bonell, 52, and her husband Ray, from Queensland, have a super-sized family consisting of 16 kids - nine sons and seven daughters aged between seven and 32. Now, one of Jeni's daughters, Brooke, has given birth to a little girl, who has been named Odette Faith.
Ziona's family is recorded by the World Record Academy as setting the world record for the "Biggest Family". At the time of the record entry in 2011, Ziona had 39 wives, 94 children, 14-daughters-in-laws and 33 grandchildren.
The lineage of K'ung Ch'iu or Confucius (551–479BC) can be traced back further than that of any other family. His great-great-great-great grandfather Kung Chia is known from the 8th century BC. Kung Chia has 86 lineal descendants.
The longest family tree in the world is that of the Chinese philosopher and educator Confucius (551–479 BC), who is descended from King Tang (1675–1646 BC). The tree spans more than 80 generations from him and includes more than 2 million members.
Now, the 13 remaining genetic members of the Thompson family — originally 16, including parents — are closing in on the world record for highest combined age, with 1,071 years between them.
The 10 in the BRW rich families list are the Smorgons ($2.64 billion), the Besens ($2.1 billion), the Libermans ($2.1 billion), the Myers ($2.01 billion), the Wilsons ($1.83 billion), the Roberts family ($1.82 billion), the Wright family ($1.53 billion), the Salteris ($1.17 billion) and the Tiecks ($1.07 billion).
But 16-year-old couple Mollie Syrigos and her boyfriend Oscar Wilks, labelled Australia's youngest parents, are proving their critics wrong by making teen parenthood work. The couple met when they were both 12 and became pregnant with their first child Theodore just over a year later, when he was born in March 2016.
The total fertility rate, a measure that gives the average number of children an Australian woman would have during her lifetime should she experience the age-specific fertility rates present at the time was 1.7 births per woman in 2021. This was up from the 1.59 for 2020, the lowest total fertility rate ever reported.
A Russian woman named Valentina Vassilyeva and her husband Feodor Vassilyev are alleged to hold the record for the most children a couple has produced. She gave birth to a total of 69 children – sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets – between 1725 and 1765, a total of 27 births.
Clockwise, from top left: Gina Rinehart, Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman, Andrew Forrest, Harry Triguboff, Sam Prince, Margaret Rose, Cliff Obrecht and Melanie Perkins.
Ethnic Groups:
English 25.9%, Australian 25.4%, Irish 7.5%, Scottish 6.4%, Italian 3.3%, German 3.2%, Chinese 3.1%, Indian 1.4%, Greek 1.4%, Dutch 1.2%, other 15.8% (includes Australian aboriginal .
Average Household Size in Australia
Australia had an average household size of 2.59 people in 2021. The indicator recorded a year-on-year decline of 1.1% in 2021. Between 2010 and 2021, the indicator decreased by 1.9%.
The webinar was about the fact that the people born between 1946 and 1964, known as the Baby Boomer generation, are the wealthiest generation in Australian history. According to the ABS, about 5.7 million Baby Boomers in Australia make up about 22% of the population.
As of July 26, 2023, Gina Rinehart was the wealthiest person in Australia, with an estimated net worth of 27.5 billion U.S. dollars, followed by Andrew Forrest (No. 2, $21.6 billion), Harry Triguboff (No. 3, $15.5 billion); and Mike Cannon-Brookes (No. 4, $11.7 billion).
Australian Financial Review's annual rich list. Mining magnate Gina Rinehart has once again been crowned Australia's richest person, as a boom in iron ore prices lifted her personal net wealth to $34 billion.
But what happened after she was labelled 'Australia's youngest mum'? Six years on, here's what happened to the now-21-year-old from Melbourne.
Seebaer van Nieuwelant (born 27 July 1623), son of Willemtgen and Willem Janszoon, was born south of Dirk Hartog Island, in present-day Western Australia. His father, not to be confused with the earlier Dutch explorer of the same name, was a midshipman from Amsterdam.
A Tasmanian woman has reportedly become a mother at the age of 62, making her the oldest woman to give birth in Australia. Channel Seven reported that the baby girl is the first child for the unidentified woman and her 78-year-old partner.
Believe It or Not: World's Oldest Surname According to Ripley's Believe it Or Not, Katz is the world's oldest surname.
Kushim – The Earliest Recorded Name
The earliest recorded surname on record belongs to an ancient Babylonian accountant named Kushim. Historians estimate that Kushim lived sometime between 3400-3000 BCE and worked as an accountant for the city of Uruk during this time period.
The oldest traceable family tree is that of the Chinese Kang clan, which documents the family's lineage over 5200 years and more than 80 generations! This family tree contains over 2 million descendants, including the great philosopher Confucius.