The payment came from the privy purse, the British sovereign’s private income
A discretionary payment known as the Royal Bounty was available for mothers who gave birth to three or more babies at one time. Photograph: Getty ImagesA new child’s arrival brings joy and excitement, as well as added expense. When it is twins, triplets or even more children at one time, emotions multiply, as do costs. Starting in the mid-1800s, a discretionary payment known as the Royal Bounty was available for mothers who gave birth to three or more babies at one time.
Referred to as the Queen’s or King’s Bounty, depending on who was reigning at the time, it was intended to “enable the parents to meet the sudden expenses thrown on them”. Some of the conditions of the payment included that the parents be married British subjects, in financial need and that the children must survive birth.
Occasionally, it was hoped that the amount of the payment would be increased, such as the case of the labourer Patrick Hand and his wife from Malahide, Co Dublin. A woman from the Abbey area of Limerick city named Mrs Connors gave birth to triplets in January 1883. They were all said to be doing well and it was expected that an application for the Queen’s Bounty would be made.
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