Anton Bruckner
Puritan Board Professor
Man, 74, fathers 148 children
Richard Charan [email protected]
Sunday, February 5th 2006
Peter Neaves, and his wife, Betty Jaggan, with whom he has 13 of the 150 children, he says he sired with women over 60 years.
There is an old man who lives in Poole. He has so many children, he doesn't know who is who.
If Peter Paul Godvin Neaves' claim is anywhere close to being true, someone better contact the Guinness Book of World Records.
Neaves is 74 years old. His eldest child will be a 60-year-old man this month. His youngest child is a 13-year-old girl.
In the 57 years between his first and last act of procreation, Neaves knows "for sure" that he fathered 73 children.
He also "believes" that he may be the father of another 75 children who don't know he's the daddy.
His claim would be incredulous except that the 13 children with whom he now lives, know many of their half brother's and sisters living in Poole Valley, along the Guyaguayare Road, Rio Claro.
Other offspring live from Princes Town to Penal and Petite Valley and Sangre Grande to San Fernando to Mayaro.
And no one in the his village with whom the Sunday Express spoke, disputes that Neaves is speaking the truth.
His nicknames are all seemingly linked to his exploits - Giant, Tail, Tiger, Redman.
Not that Neaves is advocating that anyone follow his example.
"What I do, that was in a different time", said Neaves, who is also known in his village for his abilities as a cricketer, stick fighter, boxer and as a professional hunter.
But none of Neaves' sons or two brothers have followed in his wake.
They all have two or three children. Neaves is the grandfather of 62 "known" children.
He can remember some of the names of his spawn - Dawn, Dave, Dawson, Danalee, Duran, Danica, Donard, Destrill, Dahne, Daruis....
Neaves, a retired home builder still living in the village of his birth, said he fathered his first son at the age of 14, when he was already two years out of school and working as a mason.
A second son came a year later to another woman, and by age 19, Neaves said he was the father of five. He knew nothing of condoms or sexually transmitted diseases. HIV was still decades away.
It was at that age that Neaves married Beulah Felmin Neaves, with whom he would lived until her death in August 1997, around the same time that Princess Diana died.
He said "we were together until she died. We had 13 children in 13 years".
It was during his marriage, Neaves said, that he had many, many flings, lasting from the one night stand to month long affairs with both married and unwed women both home and away.
"Other than Eskimos and Egyptians, I think I have children with every other race. I loved Indian women the most. The reason?
That I will keep to myself" said Neaves. Not that his dalliances all came easy.
He also perfected the art of running, fast.
"Boy, I was in all kinda problems. Man never liked me. But I wasn't a man you could attack easy. I could take very good care of myself. And running. Through cocoa field, bagi patch. Back then, you run. Today, is murder".
Neaves insists that he romanced hundreds of women, and recalls1955 as the year he had seven children in one week.
When his wife died, Neaves settled in with Betty Jaggan, only the second woman he ever "lived" with. He has known Betty for 38 years. They have 13 children.
His deceased wife knew of his relationship with Jaggan and of the other relationships. Jaggan is not jealous.
With a wink and a smile, she said "I used to be here when his girlfriends came to meet him. I would sit down in the livingroom and let him go. Why be jealous? In the same way, there is no distinction between the children. All are welcomed to come and go. With Beulah, it was the same thing". Neaves is a proud man.
"All my children handsome, strong. No disabilities, or cokey-eye. And no woman ever brought me up for maintenance. Not yet". But he also knows that his promiscuity would be unacceptable today.
"Not these days" he said "because too many things out there to lick you up. The beauty of life long time was that a sick person tried everything of get better. Today the sick trying to spread what they have. So use condom".
Neaves "stopped fooling around" back in the '80s. So what's the secret behind Neaves successes, the Sunday Express wanted to know.
"That, my son, you will have to pay money for!" he said.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, it was a Morrocan emperor, the aptly named Ismail the Bloodthirsty, who was the most prolific father in history.
He had 888 children during his 1672-1727 rule.
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Richard Charan [email protected]
Sunday, February 5th 2006
Peter Neaves, and his wife, Betty Jaggan, with whom he has 13 of the 150 children, he says he sired with women over 60 years.
There is an old man who lives in Poole. He has so many children, he doesn't know who is who.
If Peter Paul Godvin Neaves' claim is anywhere close to being true, someone better contact the Guinness Book of World Records.
Neaves is 74 years old. His eldest child will be a 60-year-old man this month. His youngest child is a 13-year-old girl.
In the 57 years between his first and last act of procreation, Neaves knows "for sure" that he fathered 73 children.
He also "believes" that he may be the father of another 75 children who don't know he's the daddy.
His claim would be incredulous except that the 13 children with whom he now lives, know many of their half brother's and sisters living in Poole Valley, along the Guyaguayare Road, Rio Claro.
Other offspring live from Princes Town to Penal and Petite Valley and Sangre Grande to San Fernando to Mayaro.
And no one in the his village with whom the Sunday Express spoke, disputes that Neaves is speaking the truth.
His nicknames are all seemingly linked to his exploits - Giant, Tail, Tiger, Redman.
Not that Neaves is advocating that anyone follow his example.
"What I do, that was in a different time", said Neaves, who is also known in his village for his abilities as a cricketer, stick fighter, boxer and as a professional hunter.
But none of Neaves' sons or two brothers have followed in his wake.
They all have two or three children. Neaves is the grandfather of 62 "known" children.
He can remember some of the names of his spawn - Dawn, Dave, Dawson, Danalee, Duran, Danica, Donard, Destrill, Dahne, Daruis....
Neaves, a retired home builder still living in the village of his birth, said he fathered his first son at the age of 14, when he was already two years out of school and working as a mason.
A second son came a year later to another woman, and by age 19, Neaves said he was the father of five. He knew nothing of condoms or sexually transmitted diseases. HIV was still decades away.
It was at that age that Neaves married Beulah Felmin Neaves, with whom he would lived until her death in August 1997, around the same time that Princess Diana died.
He said "we were together until she died. We had 13 children in 13 years".
It was during his marriage, Neaves said, that he had many, many flings, lasting from the one night stand to month long affairs with both married and unwed women both home and away.
"Other than Eskimos and Egyptians, I think I have children with every other race. I loved Indian women the most. The reason?
That I will keep to myself" said Neaves. Not that his dalliances all came easy.
He also perfected the art of running, fast.
"Boy, I was in all kinda problems. Man never liked me. But I wasn't a man you could attack easy. I could take very good care of myself. And running. Through cocoa field, bagi patch. Back then, you run. Today, is murder".
Neaves insists that he romanced hundreds of women, and recalls1955 as the year he had seven children in one week.
When his wife died, Neaves settled in with Betty Jaggan, only the second woman he ever "lived" with. He has known Betty for 38 years. They have 13 children.
His deceased wife knew of his relationship with Jaggan and of the other relationships. Jaggan is not jealous.
With a wink and a smile, she said "I used to be here when his girlfriends came to meet him. I would sit down in the livingroom and let him go. Why be jealous? In the same way, there is no distinction between the children. All are welcomed to come and go. With Beulah, it was the same thing". Neaves is a proud man.
"All my children handsome, strong. No disabilities, or cokey-eye. And no woman ever brought me up for maintenance. Not yet". But he also knows that his promiscuity would be unacceptable today.
"Not these days" he said "because too many things out there to lick you up. The beauty of life long time was that a sick person tried everything of get better. Today the sick trying to spread what they have. So use condom".
Neaves "stopped fooling around" back in the '80s. So what's the secret behind Neaves successes, the Sunday Express wanted to know.
"That, my son, you will have to pay money for!" he said.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, it was a Morrocan emperor, the aptly named Ismail the Bloodthirsty, who was the most prolific father in history.
He had 888 children during his 1672-1727 rule.
Link