Longest timespan of parent and child?

[rosie99]

153 years and onwards ...

My grandfather was born 17 February 1863, one of his children age 90 is still living.

He wasn't affluent so doubt he could afford claret.    He had a wife & 7 children to support and worked as a Bakers roundsman and was also a corporation labourer. 

[clairec666]

I don't think I can beat anyone  else's time-span...

My great-great-grandfather was born about 1820, married his second wife aged 60, and died in 1882. A few months after his death my great-grandmother was born. She died aged 59 in 1952. A span of 132 years.

What's more interesting though is that his first grandchild was born 20 years before his own daughter!

[Gibel]

My grandfather was born in 1860, his youngest daughter ( my mother) by his second wife was born in 1917 and died in 2001 so a span of 141 years.

[majm]

Robert was born New Zealand 1866.  His youngest son was born New South Wales 1934 (still alive, let's call him Bob 2), and his youngest grandson (so Bob 2's youngest son) was born New South Wales 2005. 

Edwin was born England 1849, his youngest son was born New South Wales 1913 (again this chap is still alive, Ted 2) and Ted2's youngest daughter was born via IVF (edit to remove the year, I may be identifying her, there may have been media coverage at the time). 

Robert is an ancestor on my paternal side.
Edwin is an ancestor on my maternal side.

My eldest living male relative was born in 1910,
My eldest living female relative was born in 1912,
My husband's eldest living male relative was born in 1909.
My husband's eldest living female relative was born in 1913.

Each of them has provided oral history recordings of their memories including memories of their childhoods, spent in rural NSW.  ..... The first motorcar to arrive in their towns,  the first telephone, the first house to get electric light,  the first wood chip hot water heater INSIDE the house, the ice chest, the kerosene fridge, interspring mattress, sharing shoes to go to school, being allowed to use a fountain pen to write a letter on fresh paper to a Great Grandmother celebrating her own Centenary.... 
speaking at age 90, about remembering the importance of sitting on the knees of a Great Aunt who had sat on the knees of her Uncle who had built by his own hands in 1810 at The Rocks, Sydney Cove, NSW and how she stressed the importance of remembering her origins.

Cheers,  JM

[Redroger]

I think Rosie's reply (No.27) holds the record at 153 years.

[coombs]

My 4xgreat grandfather was born 1777, his granddaughter born in 1877, and she lived to 1955, she died aged 78. 178 years.

As said my longest timespan between parent and child is 141 years.

[groom]

My 4xgreat grandfather was born 1777, his granddaughter born in 1877, and she lived to 1955, she died aged 78. 178 years.

As said my longest timespan between parent and child is 141 years.

My aunt's grandfather was born 1831 and my aunt is still alive at almost 100, so that's 184 years!

[smudwhisk]

My Aunt's grandfather was born in 1884 and her grandmother in 1888, there now only surviving child was born in 1911 and is alive and kicking and 105 this year.  Not quite as long as other's but not doing badly at 132 years this year.  My Aunt's mother who was one of their younger children died in 2013 at the age of 96.

On my directline my grandmother died in 1996 and her mother, my great grandmother, had been born in 1870, so 126 years.  My great grandfather was 12 years younger than his wife and both were single when they married in 1902.

[Erato]

"My aunt's grandfather was born 1831 and my aunt is still alive at almost 100, so that's 184 years!"

My dad is almost 94 now.  His grandfather was born in 1833 and immigrated to the US in 1834.