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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: trish1120 on Saturday 09 April 22 05:27 BST (UK)
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I was doing some research for a poster and came upon this.
Totally unrelated to my search but absolutely amazed me!
http://www.rjw-data.info/DGC%20PDF%20files/1830.pdf
Go down to Marriages 19th Jan 1830 ;D
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I have a few years to go to have a chance of matching that.
However, OH would not be amenable to the idea :D
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I think it was Ann Bancroft who once said “The best way to get a husband to do something is to suggest that perhaps he's too old to do it.” In this case he probably was!
Just looking in the papers, the marriage was widely reported in lots of papers all over England. :)
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I tried to look for a Death for him with no luck, although I have little experience with English/Scottish Newspapers research.
Did some reading on General Wolfe though!
Trish :)
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Did he go back to America? There is a burial in 1831 of a John WRIGHT born 1729 "Revolutionary War Veteran", though it doesn't have Catherine as spouse.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37155948/john-wright
Common name, makes it difficult. :)
Modified to strike through - no, he died in 1838 according to an obit in "The Belfast Newsletter" 22 May 1838 (and various other papers) :D
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The Belfast Newsletter issue of 22nd May 1838 (in Ancestry) carries a lovely piece in respect of John's life - following his death, in Edinburgh, on 11th May "in the 110th year of his age".
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Thank you both for that.
It made my day :)
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If he had hung on for 3 years and 1 month, he would have made the 1841 census, aged 113. ;D
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If he had hung on for 3 years and 1 month, he would have made the 1841 census, aged 113. ;D
but he would have been rounded down to 110
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If he had hung on for 3 years and 1 month, he would have made the 1841 census, aged 113. ;D
but he would have been rounded down to 110
That was not always followed, I have seen occasions where exact ages were given. The enumerator must have forgotten to round ages down.
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just reread the newspaper article in reply #4. Isn't the Prince Charles Edward referred to at Holyrood Palace Bonnie Prince Charlie and would probably be around the time of the 2nd Jacobite uprising of 1745
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to go slightly o/t
a big name in Motor Sports (not sure if I'm allowed to name him?) became a father last year at the age of 90 ! (he's already a great-grandfather.)
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Just think of the 21st party for the child, with father at 111 :o :o :o
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Love all of those witty replies ;D ;D
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Imagine being born to a 90 year old father for instance, and he had his first child at 20, that means there are 2 half siblings both born 70 years apart, and the same generation level as one another despite the humongous age gap.
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Imagine being born to a 90 year old father for instance, and he had his first child at 20, that means there are 2 half siblings both born 70 years apart, and the same generation level as one another despite the humongous age gap.
First child would probably be a grandparent themselves by that time(at least) :o :o :o
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From our own parish register:
What Time brings forth ther’s none that can pressage
John Todhunter, of Eighty Yeares of Age, Wed to Anne Strickatt, who’s supposd to be A Virgin and her Age is Sixtye Three. Both of this parrish, wch causes Admiration. The like hath scarce been knowne wthin this station
25 Oct 1665