Oldest great grandparents remembered

[Springbok]

I am comimg up to 80yrs and Granddad was born in  1866. His grandfather was born in 1808 and died in 1897.

Although he died when I was 7yrs. I was his his only granchild and spent a lot of time with him.
 His one abiding first childhood memory was being only about a year to 18 months old and being taken to the last public hanging. Not that he knew what it was then, but just remembered being on his fathers shoulders and the dreadful noise of the crowds. His memories of his childhood with his grandad were in his butchers stall a London Market (Smithfield?) were much clearer than those of his own father who died in 1871 .


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[Redroger]

Fits well enough with the dates as I believe the last public hanging in the Uk took place in 1868.

[hiraeth]

One of my grandmothers was born in 1877.  She died in 1950 before I was born.  Her parents, my great grandparents, were born in 1832 and 1833.

 

[momo22]

My Gran who was born in 1920 remebered talking to her gran who was born in 1840

[FosseWay]

I remember as a kid reading an entry in the Guinness Book of Records (this will have been an edition from the 1980s sometime) that documented the death of the last known person in the UK whose parent was born in the 18th century. The woman in question died shortly before the GBoR edition was published, having been born getting on for 100 years earlier, to a man in his 70s who was born in 1799.

The GBoR has (IMV) become a lot less user-friendly since most of it went online and a quick stab at a Google search fails to find anything relevant, but I may not be using the right search terms.

[Lemontree]

I have an older friend in his 70's who had a grandparent born in the house that is now toured as William Shakespeare's birth place, this was in the early 1850's.

Quite something to be able to pay to see your own grandparents birth place 

[Redroger]

I remember as a kid reading an entry in the Guinness Book of Records (this will have been an edition from the 1980s sometime) that documented the death of the last known person in the UK whose parent was born in the 18th century. The woman in question died shortly before the GBoR edition was published, having been born getting on for 100 years earlier, to a man in his 70s who was born in 1799.

If I live to 140+ I might be in with a chance of being the last known person whose parent was born in the 19th century as my father was born in 1899.

[coombs]

I am still a great, great nephew. 

[Redroger]

My youngest paternal great great uncle was born in 1809.