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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: Windsor87 on Friday 07 December 07 12:51 GMT (UK)
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The local paper in yester years had a section devoted to people celebrating their Diamond and Golden Weddings. So today I'm going down to the Library to see if I can find any for my ancestors.
As well as that, I though that Rootschat has a thread for longest lived, but I had not seen one for marriages. Here are some of mine:
62 years
Hugh Birnie (1818-1904) and Isabella Kerr (1819-1909).
Married: 19 Jun 1842.
60 years
William Gatt (c.1842-1929) and Isabella Birnie (c.1844-1923)
Married: 13 Oct 1862.
57 years
George Sim (1816-1898) and Alitia Duncan (1822-1907)
Married: 20 Jun 1841.
I highlight these three because it must have been a bit of an achievement back then given the average life expectancy. Indeed, 62 years is still the record on my tree.
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my nan and granddad were married 54 years before he passed away in 2004, :'( the same for Mrs Stevens along the road from my nan she had been married 54 years before her husband died (ok Mrs Stevens is not in my tree)
Samuel Punnett to Harriott Collins 1834 - 1895 (61 yrs)
James Punnett to Ann Cooper only lasted 6 years but then he remarried her sister Elizabeth in 1747 James died 1796 and Elizabeth 1799 (49 yrs)
another 49 yrs Thomas Holman & Constance Lukes
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56 years
My paternal great great grandparents, who got married in 1895.
Henry Smith (c1872-1951) and Mary Bracewell (1872-1953)
50 years
My maternal great great grandparents, who got married in 1895.
Lewin Henry Ricketts (1867-1945) and Margaret Dodd (1874-1947)
47 years
My maternal great great grandparents, who got married in 1883.
James Clitheroe Scowcroft (1864-1930) and Mary Ann Callaghan (1863-unknown, but believed to have died after 1930)
43 years
My paternal grandparents, who got married 1955.
Charles Smith (1930-2007) and Elizabeth Maynard (1934-1998)
c42 years
My paternal great great grandparents, who married in 1908.
Frank William Maynard (1881-1950) and Ellen Agnes Nicholson (1887-?)
42 years
James equalled his fathers marriage, and he got married in 1930.
James Frank Maynard (1908-1972) and Elizabeth Veronica Clegg (1908-1981)
36 years
My paternal great great great grandparents, who married in 1863.
Shadrach Maynard (1841-1906) and Harriet Ray (1845-1899)
36 years
My paternal great-grandparents, who married in 1922.
Henry Smith (1898-1958) and Ethel Harling (1899-1967)
28 years
My maternal great grandparents, who got married in 1923.
James McKenna (1901-1951) and Beatrice Scowcroft (1901-1957)
Stephen :)
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The search didn't go as well as I hoped.
I didn't find any of the above. I was hoping for just a little bit about the Birnies but it wasn't to be.
I found a family insert for my great great grandparents' Golden Wedding in 1964 (they married just before he entered service). I also found a few pictures from my great grandparents' golden wedding in 1975. I already knew quite a bit about these two couples so it wasn't too exciting.
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Not long: the longest was some 30 years - but often: one was married five times! All widows! :o
meles
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My 5xggrandparents were married for 54 years. They married in 1744 when he was 35 and she was 26 - he died in 1812 at the age of 103!
Jean
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My parents were married in June 1937 and my mother passed away in February 1999, so they had 61 1/2 years.
My maternal grandparents married in June 1910 and my grandmother died in March 1976, so they achieved nearly 66 years.
My maternal great grandparents (pictured below on their Golden Wedding) were married on Christmas Day 1884 and great grandma died in June 1944, so they managed 59 1/2 years.
Bill
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My 7x great grandparents married in December 1683 and were married for 65 years 4 months before 7x gt grandma died at the age of 87. Not bad going for the time.
Nell
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My parents were married in June 1939, and dad died in February 1903, aged 91, so they were married for nearly 64 years.
Lizzie
ps. My OH and I are up to 45 1/2 years and by the time I am 91, all being well we will have been married 70 years!
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68 1/2 Years GGGrandmother died in 1908 her husband died in 1912
Paul
ps I've attached the newspaper report of her death ( i believe it's out of copywright)
DEATH OF AGED INHABITANT.—The death occurred at her home in High Street, Street
On Sunday last of Mrs. Eliza Harty, wife of Mr. Henry Harty. who passed away at the age of 89 years.. The late Mrs. Hartry was one of an old Street family, being the eldest; daughter of the late Robert Fox, who, besides being in his later life one of the principal tradesmen of Street, had the distinction of being a. Tratalgar hero, having fought in that famous engagement. In addition ho took part in three other well-known naval affairs—those of Cape La Rochelle, the siege of Cadiz, and the capture of Flushing. Mrs. Hartry leaves a widower and a family of nine, in addition to a large number of descendants of succeeding generations. Mr. Henry Hartry.
the widower, will in October next attain the great age of 91 years, and the couple whom death has just parted had been, married for 68 1/2 years. An interesting point about their wedding. is that they were married at Street by the Rev. Merriman, subsequently Bishop of Grahamstown, and father of the new Premier of Cape Colony. The remains of the deceased lady were interred at Street churchyard on Thursday afternoon, and in connection with the interment a story of pathetic interest may be related. At the time -if the Indian Mutiny Mrs. Hartry’s brother, Robert Fox. was ordered to the front, and on thoe morning of the day of his departure from Street a little incident occurred, the effect of which has lasted through the succeeding year. Engaged in peeling an orange, Mr. Robert Fox took off half the peel, and threw it over to his sister with the jocular remark ; “Here is a present; keep it until I come back.” Mrs. Hartry, acting on the whim of the moment, kept the orange-peel, but, alas! Her brother never cam back, but fell a victim to cholera. Although knowing that he would never return, Mrs. Hartry has kept the keepsake through succeeding years, and by her wish the blackened and shrivelled piece of orange peel was placed in her hand and buried with her remains on Thursday afternoon.
[From “The Central Somerset Gazette”, March 27, 1908]
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my great aunt and uncle will have been married 70 years next year. they are both still going strong
perth
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my great aunt and uncle will have been married 70 years next year. they are both still going strong
perth
Being a Commonwealth country do they still get telegrams from the Queen, or is that restricted to the British Isles?
If not, they should have got on for their 60th and 65th anniversary. They should get one next year and every year after. I don't know how things work in Australia...
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I don't know if people from the Commonwealth get them or not, but I do know you have to apply for the telegram. I had to send a copy of my parents marriage certificate to prove they had been married 60 years.
Lizzie
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My parents were married on April 1, 1939 and are both still of this world. Guess that makes them married for 68 and half years. They have received the telegrams from the Queen for both the 50 and 60 year anniversaries. Hopefully they will get two more, one for the 70 year anniversary and one for reaching the century. :)
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The longest marriage on my tree is my parents - they have been married for 65 years - my dad three years away from 100 - he would like to make 100 now he has come this far :) My mum is a little younger - 'a lady doesn't divulge her age" ;)
Cheers
cando
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my great aunt and uncle will have been married 70 years next year. they are both still going strong
perth
Being a Commonwealth country do they still get telegrams from the Queen, or is that restricted to the British Isles?
If not, they should have got on for their 60th and 65th anniversary. They should get one next year and every year after. I don't know how things work in Australia...
i dont know about oz, but they both live in england anyway. we are hoping he lasts at least another 3 years to get his big 100 and a telegram
perth
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67 Years
My 3x ggrandparents Margaret Ward & William Smedley
Married in Ballarat VIC in 1850
She died in 1917 aged 84
He followed her 1 year later in 1918, aged 88
They came to Australia as an Orphan of the Irish famine, aged 15 and a British Convict aged 14, they had 16 children. I think they are 2 people who definitely made the best of the hand that was dealt to them.
57 Years
My great grandparents Ellen Corbett & George Richmiller.
Married in Ballarat VIC in 1914
She died in 1971 aged 84
He joined her 18 months later in 1973, aged 81