Oldest great grandparents remembered

[Billyblue]

Red
The statisticians say you live to somewhere between the ages your parents lived to.  So you might make it to 98!   
Dawn M

[AngelaR]

On my Dad's side. they tended to marry late and have children late, so my Grandad was born in 1874, even though I'm not 60 yet! His grandad was born in 1794 and that's quite incredible to me.... my grandad's grandad was pretty nearly an adult 200 years ago.....

PS Great grandad, to go back to the start of the thread, was born in 1834....

[Redroger]

Angela, My grandfather was born around 1828. I am 71 now, he was around 112 when I was born. My great grandfather was born around 1798, and his father my 2XGGF in 1776. Not back any further with certainty yet. We are very sloooooow breeders. I have 2 generations missing and at the speed of most families would have appeared arounf 1880 (in another guise).On my mother's side, all the women live into their 90s, and the men into their late 80s. So, if I am lucky I might make 80.I don't mind going, but I want to finish my tree first.

[AngelaR]

My goodness, Redroger  And I thought my father's family were very slow breeders 

[Redroger]

I was 112 years younger than my grandfather, my brother is 117 years younger.There was a thread about this last year, expect it's gone now as it was on the off topic board, we only came third and 4th respectively in the list. Another Roots chatter beat us by around  5 years.

[Jebber]

Redroger, You are obviously planning to be around for a long time, since our trees are never ending. 
I can top your 2x great grandfather, one of my great grandfathers was baptised 26 August 1789, his father my 2XGG was baptised 22 February 1759 and I have yet to hit 70.

jebber

[Redroger]

Congratulations! My lot slowed down in the 19th and early 20th century, my brother and I tried to rectify things in the 1960s aged 25 and 21, but my daughter aged 38, 41 when grandaughter born, and son 41 and still single (just about!) have slowed things down again.

[Lal]

My dad was born in 1933, and his great grandmother died a month later, though she got to cuddle him in that month. She was born in 1851. My son was born in 2007, so he's had cuddles from someone who had cuddles from someone born 156 years before he was. I often think about that and how awesome it is...

However, on my son's paternal side, there are age gaps of 47, 33, 42, 42 and 32 years between each step of those male genes! There's a fourty year difference between 3xgreat grandparents there!

[Emine]

My great grandmother was born in 1844. I was born in 1982.

That's a difference of 138 years, or 46 a generation.