Mary Marshall from Edinburg, Scotland has become a great-great-great-grandmother with six generations alive at the same time. The 86 year old is a mother to eight children and has 90 grandchildren.
Marshall's family is one of the few families in the UK to have lived six generations. The family stretches from the oldest member Mary (86) to the youngest Nyla Ferguson, born on May 25.
The mothers are all on the same side of the family and all gave birth aged 18 or younger. The huge family lives in or around Edinburgh.
Family
Mary Marshall has eight children, the eldest of whom is daughter Rose. Rose Thorburn is 68 and has four children including Chyrel Borthwick who is 50. Cheryl further has three children, one of who is Carrie Dow. Carrie (35) who is mum-of-four is the mother of new mum Toni Leigh (17).
On May 25, Toni gave birth to 6lb 14oz Nyla Ferguson, making Mary Scotland's only great-great-great-grandma.
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Incredible happiness
Scotland's only great-great-great-grandma, Mary said, “I'm a lucky woman, to be honest with you. It's great to have such a big family. There's always someone there looking out for you. I'm incredibly happy.”
The new mum Toni (17) said, “When we found out I was pregnant, we did make a joke about us breaking some sort of record. Then we started looking into it and it doesn't look like anyone else has our family set-up.”
It's a bit too early to see a resemblance to her great-great-great-grandma, but it was love at first sight when they met. We live no longer than a 10-15 minute drive away from one another so we see each other,” Toni added.
Mary's daughter Rose (68) said, "It's great when you have a new baby. I'm one of eight so I've always had a big family in some sense. But now we're pretty big. I haven't heard of any other family of this size in Scotland."
“Whenever we get together, there's always fun and laughs. There's always someone there for you,” she added.
According to Guinness World records, the number of most generations alive in a family is seven.