Oldest great grandparents remembered

[dobfarm]

What fantastic family history Nick and Billy!    you both have, to me this brings ancestry a live so to speak and not just dates in a tree as ones family history crosses centuries. 

Dave

[mshrmh]

Dave - I'm a little younger than you but we also go in for "long generations". Mum, still going, only knew one of her grandparents - he was born 1845 and died when she was in her teens.

[Jeuel]

Sadly I only remember my Mum's parents, as Dad's mother died when I was 3 months old and his father had died 20 years earlier.

But my Dad, born 1917, was very fond of his Mum's mother, who was born 1843.  She died in 1926.

[Redroger]

I was born in 1940, my father in 1899, my grand father in or before 1828, and my great grandfather in 1798. I was born 112 years at least after my grandfather, and my younger brother 117 years after him. Other threads last years suggested that we were only 3rd or 4th in the list of longest intervals.

[Gaille]

My nieces have grand-parents, a great grandma, and a great-great-grandma living.


My grandad born in 1906 used to talk about HIS great-grandma Jane who was  born in 1835 and died in 1916.

What was the expression someone used on WDYTYA?
" I have held the hand of someone who held the hand of a person born almost 2 centuaries before me" (or words to that effect)

[coombs]

My great, great uncle who is 92 talked about his grandad born in 1848.

[Redroger]

My grandmother b1872 talked of her grandmother who brought her up b c1830. Her mother had died when she (my gran) was 8.

[jackjohn]

Hi There. I am 48yr in 2 days time. I have a 6yr old granddaughter. My grandmothers husband (my grandfather) is still going strong at 80yrs. So if effect my granddaughter has a grandmother (me) and great grandmother (my mum) and a great great grandfather (my grandad) all alive and well. Thats 5 generations all at once.

Tracie xx

my family also had 5 generations living at one time , my GGrandmother,GMother,Mother,Sister and her daughter . my GGrandmother was born 1884 and passed in 1978 and I loved speaking with her .

[g eli]

I can just remember my Great grandmother she was born in 1861 and died in 1947.She was always dressed in deep mourning although her husband had passed away in 1912.
Liz