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Topic: Who was your oldest blood relative, so far? their secret? (Read 710 times)
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JAP
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This is a true story (though nothing to do with blood rells).
I knew a chap who spent much of his life waiting on his 'expectations' i.e. the demise of his very wealthy mother.
His mother lived to the age of 107 
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Scotland - HALL, HARLEY, LOCHTY/LOCHTIE/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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Windsor87
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My oldest ancestor is James Lascelles who died in 1793 aged 98 (according to his great granddaughter). Can't really say what his secret was, but he outlived all his children and grandchildren. He also ate 'pottage' and had a white beard.
The oldest blood relative is a half great great granduncle who died aged 99 in 1991. Although he lived in the same town as I do, we had no idea he existed. His full siblings did just as well. He had a brother who died at 92 and a sister who died at 93. Our branch of the family struggle to get over 75!
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Aberdeenshire/Banffshire:
Strachan, Connon, Watt, Beattie, Noble, Watt, Sinclair, Garden, Birnie, Wilson, Christie, Gatt, Watson, Sim, Ross, McWilliam, Middleton, Burr, Johnston, Munro, West, Porter, Trail, Bruce, Peddie, Kemp, Smith, Ewen, Kerr, Grieve, Whyte, Ritchie, Mackie, Jamieson, Barron, Grant, Robertson, McKay, Hadden, Forbes, Walls, Shepherd, McDonald, Duncan, Gray, Will, Thomson, Lascelles, Brown, Anderson, Doherty...
Dumfriesshire:
Bryson, Harkness, Scott, Roddick, Armstrong
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vicky19
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.natio
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My Grandmother was 99 years and 6 months old when she died. She had a hard life, she was abandoned by her parents and brought up by her blind grandmother. she had three children and she outlived her husband by 25 years and her youngest daughter (my mother aged 65) by 18 months. If my mother had lived longer then I think Gran would have got to her 100th. When I told her I was pregnant with my 1st child she told me she would live to see the baby born and she did - she died 6 days after my baby was born. Sadly she was in a different hospital to me so she did not see her first grt granddaughter before she died. Gran's aunt lived until she was 95, her mother is supposed to have lived into her 90's. Gran also had 5 half sisters all of whom are still alive and their ages range from 84 through to 96.
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Lillywhite, Dwane, Hatchett, Curtis, Giuliani, Payne, Meen, Rockliff, Leopold, Winney, True, Groombridge, Middleton, Agombar, Scanlon, Grice, Vezey, Hindley, Cannell, Welch
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