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Longest marriages in your tree.
« on: Friday 07 December 07 12:51 GMT (UK) »
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.
Strachan of Strichen/New Pitsligo - Connon of Turriff - Watt of Pennan - Noble of Broadsea -  Garden of Peterhead - Bryson of Ecclefechan

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Re: Longest marriages in your tree.
« Reply #1 on: Friday 07 December 07 13:01 GMT (UK) »
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






Holman & Vinton- Cornwall, Wojciechowskyj & Hussak- Bukowiec & Zahutyn, Bentley & Richards- Leicester, Taylor-Kent/Sussex  Punnett-Sussex,  Bear/e- Monkleigh Gazey-Warwicks

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Re: Longest marriages in your tree.
« Reply #2 on: Friday 07 December 07 13:47 GMT (UK) »
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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Re: Longest marriages in your tree.
« Reply #3 on: Friday 07 December 07 17:03 GMT (UK) »
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.
Strachan of Strichen/New Pitsligo - Connon of Turriff - Watt of Pennan - Noble of Broadsea -  Garden of Peterhead - Bryson of Ecclefechan


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Re: Longest marriages in your tree.
« Reply #4 on: Friday 07 December 07 17:12 GMT (UK) »
Not long: the longest was some 30 years - but often: one was married five times!  All widows! :o

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Brock: Alburgh, Norfolk, and after 1850, London; Tooley: Norfolk<br />Grimmer: Norfolk; Grimson: Norfolk<br />Harrison: London; Pollock<br />Dixon: Hampshire; Collins: Middx<br />Jeary: Norfolk; Davison: Norfolk<br />Rogers: London; Bartlett: London<br />Drew: Kent; Alden: Hants<br />Gamble: Yorkshire; Huntingford: East London

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Re: Longest marriages in your tree.
« Reply #5 on: Friday 07 December 07 18:28 GMT (UK) »
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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DBY: Higginbottom(Mellor)
HRT: Gurney
HRT/BED/ESS: Verney (Markyate St)
LAN: Davenport(Bolton) Schofield/Gurney(Oldham) Lord(Heap) Quinn(Manchester) Sutcliffe(Rossendale)
NTH: Tubb/Johnson(Hellidon)Brown(Kettering)
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Re: Longest marriages in your tree.
« Reply #6 on: Friday 07 December 07 20:29 GMT (UK) »
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.

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Ey, Sawyer: London
Evans: Ystradgynlais, Wales
Snell: Snettisham, Norfolk
Knight, Burgess, Ellis: Hampshire
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« Reply #7 on: Friday 07 December 07 21:06 GMT (UK) »
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.

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Re: Longest marriages in your tree.
« Reply #8 on: Friday 07 December 07 23:12 GMT (UK) »
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!