Wilson Kettle

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Wilson Kettle (1860 - January 25, 1963) mariner born Grand Bay, Newfoundland, Canada was entered in the Guinness Book of World Records in 1970 as having the largest number of living descendants.

Kettle fished with his father Captain William Kettle, who had emigrated from Dorset, England. Kettle, a fisherman by trade, at age 44 worked as diver when the person he had employed as a diver had quit. Kettle was 84 when he made his last dive. He owned and operated a schooner, the Stanley Henshaw and also participated in the annual seal hunt of Newfoundland.

Kettle had 13 children by two wives, 65 grandchildren, 201 great-grandchildren and 305 great-great-grandchildren. The death of two children left him with 582 living descendants which earned him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. Kettle lived to be 102 years of age, his mother had lived to 108. Kettle died in Grand Bay, less than a mile from where he was born.