Oldest person to live in your family?

[Alan b]

My great grandma was 97 when she died and her brother and sister were about the same age when they passed away.

[suec45]

My Great Gran was 102 when she died in 1986

[Ringoroses]

Not a relative, but a very dear old friend and neighbour died in 2004 aged (a very sprightly)  104. I found her the other day in the 1901 census aged just 10 months 

[Mort29]

a cousin's paternal line ancestor died in an Infimary in St Marylebone aged 106.

[Greensleeves]

John Pearle, my earliest traced ancestor of the Pearle line, was born in  1541 and died in 1637 at the age of 96.   He was born in the reign of Henry VIII shortly after the dissolution of the monasteries, and lived through the reigns of Edward VI, Mary Tudor, Elizabeth I, James I and  died in the reign of Charles I. 

At the time of John Pearle's  birth Copernicus had just published 'On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres' which for the first time put the sun at the centre of the universe.   Shakespeare was born when John Pearle was 23 and died when he was 75; the Gunpowder Plot happened when John was in his 60s, and he  narrowly missed  the English Civil War, which started five years after his death.

With such momentous events, I often wonder how many he was aware of, being a Yeoman and Parish Officer in a quiet Suffolk village.

[muppetprincess]

My Grandmother was 100 yrs, 6 months and 1 day when she died.  Her younger sister made 99 yrs 7 months, their older sister was only 84 !!  Their Grandfather was 93, one of his daughters made it to 93.
Jude

[JeannieR]

Hi...

My husbands great grandmother , Harriet Readyhough was born in 1859 , at Elland with Greetland, and died 1960 , aged 101......

She was as bright as a button. and was able to relate, with complete accuracy, events which happened in her childhood. My mother in law , died age 95, and could recall , breaking her arm, age three, with all the details, where , when , how, who by !!

Jim is 76 now...can recall cutting his finger age 1 , on a oxo tin , with all his grandparents present .

JeannieR

[Treetotal]

My Uncle George was 100 years old in February this year..still at home looking after himself
Carol

[Lloydy]

My lovely Nan died 11th November 1997 age 93.  Her sister, my great aunt, is still alive and well at the age of 91....she's marvellous and still got all her marbles