Large gaps between d.o.b. of a grandparent and one of his/her grandchildren.

[portybelle]

There were 71 years between my maternal grandaprents and me. They didn't have my mum, youngest of ten, till they were 45!

[Lothar]

John Tyler, 10th President of US was born in 1790.  He has two living grandsons.  Last one born in 1928.  that's 138 years.  Easy to find on web

[Maiden Stone]

I'm 97 years younger than my GF. My youngest cousin was born almost 100 years after our GF.  Youngest child of GF was born over 100 years after the alleged birth of his father.

[pharmaT]

I was born 84 years after my maternal grandfather (I'm the youngest of the youngest).  My mum was born 87 years after her grandfather so the generations are rather long in my family.  My younger daughter was born 85 years after my Dad. 

[clairec666]

I was born when my granddad was 75 - not too extraordinary, but all my friends had much younger grandparents.
More remarkable is my granddad's own grandfather, who was born about 90 years before him. He married (for the second time) at age 60, his daughter (my great-grandmother) was born, then he died shortly afterwards. My granddad was born 30 years later.
Even more remarkable is that my great-great-grandfather had been married before at age 20 and was already a grandfather in his early forties. So my great-grandmother had a niece who was about 20 years older than her!

[Redroger]

There is 112 year gap between my grandfather's birth and mine.I have so far been unable to confirm whether he and his first wife had any children certainly none survived to adulthood, but there is one possibility, s baby girl b 1860 who died in infancy may have been theirs. If so, my father had a half sister 39 years his senior, and as my aunt she would have been 80 years older than me. I have so far been unable to confirm this due to problems with the lincolnshire site Lincllinks.

[iolaus]

My 4*great grandfather George Fido was born 1st May 1816 (and I've only just realised that his daughter (who I descend from) died on his 80th birthday)

His second to last daughter Hannah  (from his fourth marriage) was born in 1861  and had her youngest child in jan 1910, so almost 94 years

George died in 1902, 5 of his grandchildren were born after his death at 85


My grandmother was 72 when I was born (75 when my brother was born) - my dad wasn't the youngest child but we are the youngest grandchildren I believe

On the other side they were mid 50s so different generations really

[Redroger]

Perhaps I am cynical but researching s village near Cambridge I found a disproportionate number of mothers who at the time of giving birth to their last child 45 upwards, had a teenaged daughter in the house. I wonder if they were in fact covering illegitimate births?

[medpat]

My paternal grandfather was 75 when I was born 3rd youngest, 77 my sister 2nd youngest and 83 when my cousin was born, youngest grandchild.

My father was the youngest child but my mother was 2nd eldest and 5 years younger than my father so maternal grandfather was 58 when I was born, his eldest grandchild