Does anyone (living) have a great grandparent born in the 18th century?

[trish1120]

Sorry no one living.

Me 1956
My Father 1907
His Father 1864
His 1837
His 1789

Trish

[Erato]

As I understand it, the American President John Tyler born 1790 still has a grandson living. 

Yes, he does.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/11/29/president-john-tyler-grandson-harrison/

[majm]

There's this thread :  https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=253342.0 

JM

[Andrew Tarr]

I am now 82.  My gt-grandparents cannot approach the 1700s, but I am a little surprised that all eight of them were born between 1838 and 1850 - remembering that age differences between husband and wife were not unusual.  My one claim to unusuality is the possession of an original photograph of a woman born in 1783 !

My father-in-law claimed that his grandfather was born in Waterloo year (1815) but we have found that it was actually 1827, in Northern Ireland - so we are not 100% certain ....

[melba_schmelba]

Yes, two great grandparents born in the 1700s

My father was born 1886, his parents
My paternal grandfather was born in 1836, his parents in 1803 and 1794.
My paternal grandmother was born in 1845, her parents in 1798 and 1810.

Both my father and I were from second marriages so I was born over a hundred years after my grandfather.  My mother was twenty years younger than my father, so my great grandparents on the maternal side were not born until the mid 1850s,  more than fifty years after my paternal great grandparents.

I should add that I am very much alive and a long way from my centenary, as are all my class mates from my school days. 

Wow, Jebber, I think you are the Rootschat winner .

[melba_schmelba]

As I understand it, the American President John Tyler born 1790 still has a grandson living. 

Yes, he does.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/11/29/president-john-tyler-grandson-harrison/

Ah, thanks maddy and Erato, so it IS possible . But the conditions there are so unusual, two fathers in successive generations having children in their 60s and 70s, it must be very very rare.

[frostyknight]

My great grandfather was born 1815 (from age on death cert, he could have been older), his son, my gf, was born in 1876 and my dad in 1920. So on my line we managed 4 generations in 200 years!! I descend from ggf's 2nd marriage.

[Andrew Tarr]

My great grandfather was born 1815 (from age on death cert, he could have been older), ...

... or younger  Quite a few people lost count and believed (or others did) they were older than they were.

One of my gt-grandmothers died in Ireland in 1916, age recorded on death certificate was 72.  I think she lived on her own and the death was recorded by a nurse visitor.  The real age was 66.

[SiGr]

Not me but my cousin's wife has just celebrated her 90th birthday. Her father was born in 1869. His father was born in 1826. And his father was born in 1789.