Oldest person to live in your family?

[coombs]

They do say the oldest known person to have lived is 122 but that is nothing compared to other claims. William Mead is an example and in 2000 a woman in Africa was alleged to have been 150 years old and the oldest person in the world.

[Redroger]

The French lady who lived to be 122 is the oldest person whose life is properly documented by birth and death certificates. I remember around 40 years ago there was a case in the Muslim part of the then Soviet Union where a couple had been married 100 years. The mind boggles!!

[coombs]

I would not be surprised if there was one or even a few people who have lived beyond 122, perhaps decades beyond.

There probably has been someone who has lived past 122.

[Redroger]

No doubt it will be surpassed in the next decade. They say we're lving too long anyway, a few more long lived centenarians won't help the pension deficit!

[coombs]

In 2004 a woman from Belarus claimed to be 166 born in May 1888. In the newspaper was a copy of her passport pic which expires in 2038 when she is 150.

I reckon somewhere someone has lived beyond 130 but it never became public knowledge.