Your longest lived ancestor

[vic1]

MY grandmother was 92 when she died less than five years ago - my great great grandad came from a line of long livers (!) was born in 1837 and died in 1933. his daughters except for my great gran who died of childbirth fever ( her sisters all 4 had no children) lived well into their 80s and 90s .

[JonathanC]

My maternal grandmother died aged 101 (and three-quarters!).  Born 20 Mar 1897 in Glasgow, died 28 Dec 1998 in Kent.
   

[BashLad]

I've always been a supporter of 'longevity genes'. One of my ancestors managed 1746-1836, 90 years then. One of his sons managed 1783-1874, 101 years then. And so on down to granddad who died aged 90. I think the youngest in the direct line down to me was 73.

[suzard]

Mine is still living - 92 and going strong and been a widow for 71 years!!!!

Suz

[Guyana]

In my family it will be I. I have made a vow to live forever,-- or die in the attempt!

[CV-S]

Hi, thanks for the replies everyone. I find it very interesting.

I also support the 'longevity' genes. I just found my great-grandmother had the following siblings:

Luite (1884-1986)
Marrigje (1888-1981)
Jentje (1896-1996)

so a fairly long lived family. My own longest lived ancestor (doesn't beat some already here!) was Ann Usher, who died in 1871 aged 101.

[Billyblue]

My Billy Blue was 99 when he died, according to his burial certificate. (Some people dispute the age)

My Dad (Billy's ggggrandson) was keen to beat him and he did!  He was one day short of 101 years and 4 months when he died in 1999.  So he didn't make his next goal, to live across three centuries.      

Dawn M

[rachelralph]

my great grandma almost made it to her 91st birthday. she was born 28th dec 1920 and died aged 90 2 days ago. i have no doubt that had the alzhiemers not got her she would still be alive and kicking (quite literally sometimes!) now.

[groom]

My paternal grandmother born 1884 and died 1982 aged 98. We all thought she was only 97 as that is what she claimed she was, however since I started looking at the family tree I've discovered that she was born 3 months after her parents married and so at some point her age was changed to cover this up.