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Re: Memories from the Oldest person you ever knew?How far back?
« Reply #27 on: Tuesday 27 December 05 12:39 GMT (UK) »
I am now 81. My great uncle Walter was born in 1850 and lived to 99 (1949). His sons were very cross because they were busy planning his hundredth birthday celebrations. I can't remember him talking about his early days but he was born in the City of London according to the 1851 census and became a cabinet maker, later having his own business as a piano case maker. He went to his factory in St.Pancras every day till some time in 1940 (age 89 or 90), but had a slight accident getting on a bus in the wartime blackout. His doctor told him he shouldn't go out after dark. "Blow that " he said, "I'd have to leave work half way through the afternoon - I'd better leave the boys (his Sons ) to do what they can." The boys were all in their 60s! ;D
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Re: Memories from the Oldest person you ever knew?How far back?
« Reply #28 on: Tuesday 27 December 05 15:17 GMT (UK) »
Hello Barbajan,

Wow 81!, you must be one of the oldest members on Rootschat, and a vast knowledge of how times have changed since you were a child.

Welcome to Rootschat :) :)

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Re: Memories from the Oldest person you ever knew?How far back?
« Reply #29 on: Tuesday 27 December 05 19:38 GMT (UK) »
I am now 81. My great uncle Walter was born in 1850 and lived to 99 (1949). His sons were very cross because they were busy planning his hundredth birthday celebrations. I can't remember him talking about his early days but he was born in the City of London according to the 1851 census and became a cabinet maker, later having his own business as a piano case maker. He went to his factory in St.Pancras every day till some time in 1940 (age 89 or 90), but had a slight accident getting on a bus in the wartime blackout. His doctor told him he shouldn't go out after dark. "Blow that " he said, "I'd have to leave work half way through the afternoon - I'd better leave the boys (his Sons ) to do what they can." The boys were all in their 60s! ;D

Hello Barbajan,

Thanks for sharing that with us. Your Great Uncle sounds a great character!

All Best Wishes, Romilly. :)
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Re: Memories from the Oldest person you ever knew?How far back?
« Reply #30 on: Tuesday 27 December 05 23:06 GMT (UK) »
Hi Barbajan,

I had to laugh at 'The boys' being cross. The Gran who I started this thread with, didn't want to live to  100, only to equal an Aunt of her own who lived to be 99.

And true, that her daughters were bemoaning the fact that she 'Hadn't made it'(to 100)

Her last few days in that Victorian hangover of the old West Middx Hosp. were not to her liking "Don't like it here,It's full of Old People"!!
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Re: Memories from the Oldest person you ever knew?How far back?
« Reply #31 on: Wednesday 28 December 05 03:06 GMT (UK) »
I would also like to say welcome to Barbajan.  What a good new subject for the lighter side - 'Who is our oldest Rootschat member' 
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Australia - Baker
Kent - Chattington, O'Hara, Roffey
London - Stevens, Stone, Davies, Walker
Cambridge - O'Hara
And who knows where else......

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Re: Memories from the Oldest person you ever knew?How far back?
« Reply #32 on: Wednesday 28 December 05 07:12 GMT (UK) »
the oldest person in my family i've met is my 80 year old paternal great aunt joyce, born 1925 - all my great grandparents were dead by 1981 and most of their siblings were also dead by the time i was born in 1986. There are a few of my grandparent's brothers and sisters still alive, who were all born in the 1925-1935 years.

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Re: Memories from the Oldest person you ever knew?How far back?
« Reply #33 on: Wednesday 28 December 05 14:56 GMT (UK) »
My Mum was lucky enough to have known her great-grandmother. Sadly mum died many years ago, but a great friend of hers is still alive, now in her late 80's (and also now my step mum, as she married my dad after my mum's death, but that is beside the point!). My step mum can also remember my Mum's great grandmother. She also knew my mum's grandmother, her mother, my mum (of course), me and my brothers, our children, and has just spent Christmas visiting my brother, his children and his grandchildren! (i.e would be my Mum's great grandchildren)
So this dear old lady has known 7 generations of my family.
I am sure this must be a record!
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Re: Memories from the Oldest person you ever knew?How far back?
« Reply #34 on: Wednesday 28 December 05 15:30 GMT (UK) »
The furthest I can go back is my granddad Billy born 1878.  He was quite a character and "lady's man".

He married twice having five children with his first wife and four with his second (my line).

He died in 1963 and I remember his sisters, both in their nineties, crying and saying he had died so young, 85, because of his wild womanising ways.

He was only 5' 2" and never had to go to war because he was excused for being too short.  He was definitely a bantom cock and would out drink and outfight any challengers.

He lived through desperate poverty and told me there were times when he had walked to length of Macclesfield canal looking for watercress and herbs to put on bread as that was all they had to eat. 

He had lived his life pretty much as he wanted when married to his first wife but his second wife, my grandmother, was a bit of a shock, she put a stop to his drinking and once knocked him senseless for coming home drunk.  He behaved himself for the rest of his married life but when she died in 1940 he got legless at her funeral.

He staggered upstairs to bed and swore blind for the rest of his life that she had come out of the bedroom and thrown him down the stairs for being intoxicated.  He never went up the stairs again and had his bed moved into the dining room where it stayed until he died in 1963.  ;D

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Re: Memories from the Oldest person you ever knew?How far back?
« Reply #35 on: Wednesday 28 December 05 15:38 GMT (UK) »
I have a second person in my tree, but in this case there are no mempories.

My Anut on my father's side, born 1917, can just remember great uncle Archibald, who was born in 1844.

He never married and I recently found him mentioned in the Times 1870's, a womens he employed tried to deceive him and another person in Egham, there was a trial at Southwark.

My grandmother remembered him as a handsome man, but it's ratrher sad, that he never really settled, or married, and so was vulnerable to this sort of thing.

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