The incredible family of 150 siblings.
Murray Blackmore is the 19-year-old who is part of the largest polygamous family in the world. Him and his 150 brothers they share the same father. However, the children come from 27 different mothers. In Murray’s case, there are 8 children who share the same mother and father, but there is an abysmal age difference between them: the youngest is one year old and the oldest 44.
The patriarch of the family, Winston Blackmorewas a Latter-day Saint leader, a kind of Mormon sect located in Bountiful, Canada. Over the years Winston has been the protagonist of several controversies, including for marrying girls who were still minors. For this reason, in 2018 he was sentenced to six months of house arrest. Of his 27 wives, “only” 22 are mothers.
The secrets of this unusual and unusual polygamous family have been revealed on TikTok by some of Blackmore’s children.
With so many brothers it is impossible to be close to all of them, it is even almost impossible to remember the name of all of them. For this reason, as Murray explains in a TikTok video, the family patriarch has devised a trick to name his children without repeating them and to be able to remember them all.
The entire family of a Mormon sect leader.
The trick is to give boys and girls born in the same year names that contain the same letter. In the case of Murray, born in 2001, there are a total of 3 boys and 9 girls, and all their names begin with the letter M.
The video, as expected, aroused the curiosity of thousands of users who had more questions for the young man: “I’m curious, how many of your brothers do you have a close relationship with? There are so many, ”asked a user, to whom Murray confessed it with 5, but who, however, does not have a close relationship with his parents.
Others took advantage of their humor: “I’m sure Christmas is very expensive for them,” to which Murray replied that they don’t celebrate Christmas and that between 150 and 300 people attend Thanksgiving.
All children born in the same year.
The video that was uploaded to TikTok at the end of 2020 continues to be broadcast to this day and has already reached over 5.5 million views on the social network and more than 1.1 million likes. Since then he has uploaded dozens of videos about his peculiar and large family, which he has assured to be proud of under the hashtag #ilovemyfamily.
In previous videos, the siblings revealed that the family’s teenagers do not live with their mothers, but in a “hotel house”.
The swarm of siblings also attend their own school. How could it be otherwise Winston Blackmore was the one who controlled the main aspects of community life. And education couldn’t be outdone. Warren said in this regard that his father was the director of the school and that he went to class with five brothers, four sisters, seven cousins and two grandchildren, who were the same age.
Winston Blackmore, center, with some of his daughters.
Murray also said birthday parties are “fairly normal” within the community, but it’s usually only the brothers who buy gifts.
“Sometimes, if there were a lot of birthdays together, we’d celebrate them as one big birthday party, but it didn’t happen very often,” she said.
Children and mothers, all together.
Murray’s brother Warren also used TikTok to explain family ties, claiming there were six different sets of sisters among the 27 wives.
“There were two sets of three different sisters and there were four sets of four different sisters from another family,” she said.
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