Family Welcomes First Daughter In 130 Years!

A family is celebrating the arrival of their first little girl on the father’s side since 1885! Baby Audrey broke a 130 year daughter drought when she arrived last month.

Carolyn and Andrew Clark, from Michigan, celebrated their daughter’s historic arrival, along with the rest of the Clark family, which, according to their records, haven’t welcomed a girl for more than a century.

“It was a huge surprise for all of us,” Andrew Clark told Good Morning America.

Andrew and Carolyn have been together for 10 years, and when they first began dating Carolyn didn’t actually believe the family’s daughter-drought story.

“I’m like, ‘Oh, it’s a 50-50 chance every time. What do you mean?’ He goes, ‘No, legitimately, we have not had a girl in our direct line in over 100 years.'” Carolyn said. “I asked his parents to confirm that information and they’re like, ‘Oh yeah, no, we haven’t had a girl in our direct line.’ He’s had uncles and cousins that have had girls but in his lineage, there has not been a girl.”

Baby Audrey also happens to be a rainbow baby, with the couple suffering a miscarriage in January 2021.

“When we found out we were pregnant, we honestly didn’t care if we were having a boy or girl at that point. We just were thankful to be pregnant and just praying for a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby. It was just icing on the cake that it was a girl.”

In a super sweet moment, the family found out the couple was expecting a girl at a gender reveal party, which involved eating cookies to discover the happy news.

“We kept it a secret to ourselves as well. So I just assumed it was going to be blue in the centre of the cookies and it’d be another boy in the lineage,” Andrew explained. “I was shocked. I think I just stared at the centre of that cookie like, it’s really pink. So it was a good surprise for us.”

Audrey is a little sister for the couple’s four-year-old son Cameron.

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28 Comments

- - Ordinary mum said
  - 29 Oct 2024
    5:06 pm
Congratulations on breaking the drought. But with no girl in the family for over 100 years, be afraid, be very afraid! Being the mother of one girl and two boys I can tell you that girls are hard work! Up until the age of 12 she was sweet as pie, now we’re hanging on by our fingernails and biting holes in our tongue praying desperately for the day that she gets past these hormonal teenage years and whilst not back to being the sweet angel she used to be, because that would be asking for too much, but at least someone who can talk to us and be around us.

- - tessie said
  - 24 Sep 2024
    3:47 pm
What a wonderful surprise and a great way to break the lineage of boys. Congratulations

- - rachel1970 said
  - 16 Sep 2024
    4:53 pm
Oh wow, what an amazing surprise for them. This is going to be one very spoilt princess.

- - mom101628 said
  - 12 Sep 2024
    11:54 pm
This is going to be one very spoilt young lady, I think!!!

- - sars_angelchik said
  - 12 Sep 2024
    9:54 am
That’s a bit cute! Congrats to them!

- - Ellen said
  - 12 Sep 2024
    7:56 am
Aw they must be over the moon !

- - mom223151 said
  - 11 Sep 2024
    8:28 pm
What great news. Such a blessing.

- - ChiWren said
  - 11 Sep 2024
    8:20 pm
Adorable! I hope mum is treated like a queen for bringing a girl to the family. My mum broke the boy streak on both sides when I came along. Worth the wait, I like to think hehe

- - Danicastefanie said
  - 18 Apr 2023
    7:23 am
How special is that!!! She is going to be very loved.

- - cassy26 said
  - 17 Apr 2023
    12:03 pm
awww thats so good. She is going to be a very loved little girl

- - mom265671 said
  - 16 Apr 2023
    11:08 pm
Wow thats super exiciting for this family im sure they are over joyed

- - Frankiielot said
  - 16 Apr 2023
    7:08 pm
Oh my goodness! Congrats to that whole family!!! It’s nice to have a girl – I’m sure she will be the centre of everyone’s attention.

- - mom465794 said
  - 16 Apr 2023
    5:14 pm
Congrats wow

- - mom488146 said
  - 16 Apr 2023
    4:55 pm
Such an amazing story to tell!

- - mom450498 said
  - 16 Apr 2023
    3:39 pm
Wow I’m impressed the family kept a record of it!

- - TraceyGail said
  - 16 Apr 2023
    7:24 am
It had to happen eventually! Congratulations.

- - tessie said
  - 15 Apr 2023
    11:48 am
Wow. What a wonderful surprise for the whole family. Baby Audrey is going to be so spoilt by everyone in the family. Congratulations

- - shocolatmoose said
  - 15 Apr 2023
    11:23 am
A wonderful addition to the family tree.
- mom93821 replied
  
  16 Apr 2023 , 7:34 am
  A fun family tree to review in years to come.
- - mom93821 said
  - 15 Apr 2023
    7:51 am
Delight for all of the families.

- - sars_angelchik said
  - 15 Apr 2023
    7:02 am
Beautiful story- what a lovely surprise for them! Bet she’s going to be spoiled rotten by the grandparents!