Oldest person to live in your family?

[Maggie1895]

Margaret, what a lovely picture.    I hope she had a wonderful day.

p.s. to RedRoger -

Scraping the mould off cheese was done as a matter of course. Believe many small grocers used to do this as a matter of course. It is a wonder we survived, or perhaps we are now often excessively hygenic?

I still scrape the mould off the cheese, I thought everybody did?!    Don't tell me, nobody wants me to bring the sandwiches now..

[Benfuchsia]

Yes Maggie she had a lovely day

 and the rest of us had a lovely weekend  Cousins came over from Australia and we are now asking Whens the next reunion!
Margaret

[Redroger]

Doesn't bother me Maggie.We have become obsessional about these things.

[originQuest]

Hello there,

I thought I would add my own family members.  One, my ancestor, was called Ann, and she married George Wakefield.  Although no marriage or baptism has been found, she died in 1844  aged 102!  I'd love to find out more, but I'm currently unable too!

Another one I have just discovered recently, and I am still trying to prove this one; my ancestor, Isabellla Burnside POSSIBLY died in 1817 ... aged 104.

[Redroger]

A very high proportion of my mother's relatives live into their 90s, usually the high 90,s but to my knowledge no one has yet reached 100.

[Windsor87]

The oldest in my entire tree was a half cousin of my great grandfather who died aged 101 in 1995.

His half-uncle died aged 99 in 1991.

[Petros]

My grandmother made 95. she went downhill when shehad an inside toilet put in!

Lots in late 80s, 4 x great grandfather died in 1838 age 87 (so a death certificate for someone born in 1751)

[Windsor87]

One of my greatx4 grandfathers got a mention in the local paper on his death in 1925 for making it to the age of 92.

Everything else, including his death certificate, suggests he was just 87 years old so goodness knows how that came about.

[Les de B]

Confirmed by Birth/Death Certificates, my grandmother was 93 old, her sister 102 old, and their mother 97 old.

I hope I've got some of their genes 

Les