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Topic: Who was your oldest blood relative, so far? their secret? (Read 748 times)
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loo
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I have become very curious about this question.
This week, I learned, to my complete surprise, that one of my grandmother's first cousins lived to the age of 106. She was born, lived and died in the same rural Manitoba location in about 1993. I had thought she did not marry, but that is wrong; she had 4 children. She apparently kept herself very busy with interminable letters to the editor. Perhaps I'll order the microfilm, and learn her secrets! - if I live long enough to read them!
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ARMSTRONG - Castleton Scot, Westminster Twp
BARFIELD - Nailsea & NL
BRAKE - Nailsea
BURIATTE
CANDY - M'sex, Deptford
CLIFFORD - Maidstone
DURE(E) - France, Devon, Canada
HALLS - Chigwell
KREIN
LEOPOLD - Hanover, London
LATTIMER - lightermen
MAXWELL - lightermen
MEYER - Lauenstein
MURRAY - Scot.borders
STEWART - Chelsea; Reach
SWANICK - Co.Mayo & Roscommon; Ontario
WEST - Rochester & Maidstone
WILLIS - Wilts, Berks, Hants, London
WOODHOUSE - Bristol, London
WW1 internments
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behindthefrogs
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It may be of interest but I have two female relatives who lived past 100. One of them never married and the other was married in her forties for as few years and never had any children.
Is that the secret?
David
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Living in Berkshire. Origin Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES CAN BE FOUND IN SURNAME INTERESTS AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Williams, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Rena
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I've found several women in my line lived into their 90's but the one who intrigues me is in my husband's line and was William Wallace, a master of a small boat, b1845, who outlived 3 wives and is said to have died aged about 103. I'm looking forward to finding a record of his court case when he was sent to prison for smuggling. The story passed down is that the crown confiscated his family's property up in Yorkshire and if the large ruby & diamond heirloom ring is anything to go by, he was rather successful. 
Rena
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Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy
Leith area: Mason, Telford, Darling, Cruikshanks, Sime, Bell
Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie, Glen, Millar
Ross, Urray:Mackenzie
Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell
Perthshire: Brown Ferguson
Wales: McCarthy, Thomas, Yeoman(s)
England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells
Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke
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honey-roma88
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My oldest known relative that I know of was my gg grandad (pictured in my avatar). He only lived to 90 but my family were poverty stricken so that isn't bad for their social situation.
He smoked like a chimney, drank everyday down the pub and worked well into his eighties as a rag and bone man. He didn't die of cancer or any disease as such but passed away due to the ravages of time, I assume his heart gave in.
He was a lovely man but was apparently very happy when he outlived his son. 
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Romany/Traveller:
BLACKMAN, BUCKLAND, BURGESS, DIX, DOBSON, FOLEY, GRANT/PARKER, HUNT, JONES, MUNDAY/MONDAY, MORGAN, NOYELL, ORCHARD, PAGE, REED, VINCENT
Jewish:
BRAHAM, FROST, LYONS
French:
HONEYSETT, LEVETT PETTIT
English:
BELSHAW, BETTSWORTH, CANE, COVENTRY, DOBSON, FRY, NURSE, POOK, PUTLAND, PUTT, SMITH, SNELGROVE, TEE, TUDGAY, VENUS/VENESS
Irish:
ANDERSON, KILLOUGH, MACCORMACK, MACROBERTS, MORTON, MOORE, WALLACE
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JAP
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My oldest was a sister of my grandmother who died at 103.
She was married and had two children but her husband died in WW1.
She lived with an unmarried daughter, and next door to the other daughter who had been widowed fairly early.
Another sister of my grandmother died at 99.
JAP
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Scotland - HALL, HARLEY, LOCHTY/LOCHTIE/LOUGHTIE/LOUGHTY (very rare), MCLAUSE/MCLAWS/MCILHOSE/HOSE (quite rare and many very variable spellings - close to 100 to date), PHILP/PHILIP, VASSIE; Ireland - BOURKE/BURKE, DONOHUE (many spellings), DOOLEY, KINSELLA, MAXWELL, OSBORNE, RAFFERTY, STA(U)NTON, SULLIVAN; England - BAYES, BROWNELL, DALTON, FREEMAN, HACKING, PIERCY, SIDDLE, SWIFT, SULLIVAN, TINK(L)ER, TRIPPIT. Any spellings and many other names!
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Comosus
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A G Granduncle who died aged 96 (never knew him). Longevity isn't really something which runs in my family
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Leeds - HOLMES (also at Boston Spa, Thorp Arch), SCHOLEY/SCOREY/SCHORAH (also at Stanley, Wakefield), TURVEY (also at Birmingham), WARD, WHITE, WOODHEAD (also at Halton, Whitkirk, Templenewsam). Dewbury - CRAWSHAW, GLEDHILL, SPEIGHT Great Horton - RAMSDEN, SHACKLETON, WOOLER Woolsthorpe by Belvoir - SMITH Barrowby and South Stoke, Lincolnshire - PARKER Derby and Newhall - STREET Census information Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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avm228
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The oldest in my direct line (indeed, the oldest in my whole tree) is Angus MacGregor of Caithness, who was 106 in the 1841 Scotland census.
The Times newspaper ran a short feature on him on 20 May 1840, sourced from the John O'Groats Journal:
There is at present residing near DONBEATH a pensioner named
ANGUS MACGREGOR, who was discharged from the Army in 1785, in consequence of
a hurt in his leg. He was then 50 years of age, and is consequently now in
his 105th year. During the French war this veteran had again to "buckle on
his armour", and though incapacitated by his wound from taking the field,
served his country in garrison for upwards of 15 years more. MacGregor is a
native of the parish of LATHERON, and has resided there since his final
discharge. Although this "relic of the wars" is now unable to travel to
Wick, "to fight his battles o'er again" among the veteran campaigners which a
pension-day is sure to muster, yet he still leaves his bed, and marches to
his station by the fireside with accustomed regularity. Although rather
oblivious, as Dominie Sampson says, of matters of recent occurrence, his
reminiscenses of the "days of other years" are quite vivid. --
I don't know when he died, but unsurprisingly he does not appear in any census after 1841.
Anna 
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Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)
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Comosus
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The oldest in my direct line (indeed, the oldest in my whole tree) is Angus MacGregor of Caithness, who was 106 in the 1841 Scotland census. The Times newspaper ran a short feature on him on 20 May 1840, sourced from the John O'Groats Journal: There is at present residing near DONBEATH a pensioner named ANGUS MACGREGOR, who was discharged from the Army in 1785, in consequence of a hurt in his leg. He was then 50 years of age, and is consequently now in his 105th year. During the French war this veteran had again to "buckle on his armour", and though incapacitated by his wound from taking the field, served his country in garrison for upwards of 15 years more. MacGregor is a native of the parish of LATHERON, and has resided there since his final discharge. Although this "relic of the wars" is now unable to travel to Wick, "to fight his battles o'er again" among the veteran campaigners which a pension-day is sure to muster, yet he still leaves his bed, and marches to his station by the fireside with accustomed regularity. Although rather oblivious, as Dominie Sampson says, of matters of recent occurrence, his reminiscenses of the "days of other years" are quite vivid. -- I don't know when he died, but unsurprisingly he does not appear in any census after 1841. Anna
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Leeds - HOLMES (also at Boston Spa, Thorp Arch), SCHOLEY/SCOREY/SCHORAH (also at Stanley, Wakefield), TURVEY (also at Birmingham), WARD, WHITE, WOODHEAD (also at Halton, Whitkirk, Templenewsam). Dewbury - CRAWSHAW, GLEDHILL, SPEIGHT Great Horton - RAMSDEN, SHACKLETON, WOOLER Woolsthorpe by Belvoir - SMITH Barrowby and South Stoke, Lincolnshire - PARKER Derby and Newhall - STREET Census information Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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avm228
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Oooh- he would fit in well! I suspect proving his birthdate might provide more of a challenge than proving his death date, but it's worth a go
I might see whether the John O'Groat Journal has archives going back to the 1840s - presumably his demise would have merited a mention.
Anna
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Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)
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My father's mother was 100 yrs, 6 months and 1 day when she died. Her younger sister was 99 yrs 7 months, her older sister was 84 when she fell through the floor of her home in Papua New Guinea. Her brothers all fell off the perch at 45, 56 and 71! A cousin of hers told me that the longevity is definitely in the genes, as this lady's father is 99 not out, and a sister of his reached 93.
On my Mum's side, it's the boys that lived on, 73 for my grandfather, 84, 80 for 2 brothers, one is still somewhere in France (1917), unaccounted for, he was 23, and the last brother was 56. The girls were 45, 70, 77 and 76. One of her first cousins is still with us at 93.
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Jardine- Dumfries, Cooma (NSW)
Cochrane- Scotland
Sparks- Norfolk, Young (NSW), South Australia
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My dad celebrated his 95th birthday six weeks before passing away three years ago. He believed in sleeping as much as possible and eating moderately - always leaving something on your plate etc. but having a little of whatever you fancy at least once a week. In the last few years, his treats were the occasional tiny glass of stout, chocolate mousse and chocolate covered brazil nuts. The system seemed to work well as he was still cracking jokes (which made sense!) a couple of days before his death.
I think my Dad's generation (1910) had a much healthier start in life. Walked miles as a child to school and freshly killed meat and fish with minimal or/no preservatives. There may not have been a lot of that, but otherwise there were garden grown root veggies before DDT etc. I don't think my own generation (1952) will last as long 
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukCARRINGTON, ROBERTS, WILLIAMS, FOULKES, WYNN, BLUNT, JONES Denbighshire. DAVIES, OWEN, JONES, WILLIAMS, THOMAS, EVANS, MORGAN, SOLOMAN, GRIFFITHS Caernarfonshire & Anglesey THATCHER, HILLIER, PARISH Surrey APPLETON, MALTHOUSE, GLOVER Hertfordshire MCDONALD & SOUPER Aberdeen c1800 |
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This is a topic covered here.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,293639.0.html
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CHOULES All
COLE Gt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset.
MONK Odiham, Hampshire.
RAM(M)EL(L), Kent.
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.
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The oldest is probably Mary Fisher, my 9x great grandmother, who was born in July 1704 and died in December 1799 aged 95. Others have lived up to their late 80's and early 90's. A non-blood relative died in America a few years ago aged 105.
Stephen
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Smith (Lancashire), McKenna (Ireland/Liverpool/Leyland), Maynard (Hertfordshire/London/Preston), Ricketts (Gloucestershire/Wigan/Preston), Scowcroft (Preston), Harling (N. Yorkshire/Lancashire), Willis (Preston), Clegg (Manchester/Preston), Dodd (Wigan/Cheshire), Alston (Lancashire), Hulks (Hertfordshire), Nicholson (Co Mayo, Ireland/Lancashire), Brown (Co Tipperary, Ireland/Lancashire), Wilson (Kendal) Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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