Genealogy Chat

Anyone come across this and what does 8i Allensm_te nr this city mean? Interesting isn't it?

WARWICK & WARWICKSHIRE GENERAL ADVERTISER
(Jan 1822 - May 1823)
1822.01.19 Death GILBERT Thomas Gilbert 8i Allensm_te nr this city, Thomas Gilbert in the 120th yr of his age _ baptized 1702 and appears by the register of above parish. Son upwards of 70 attended funeral as chief mourner

Thanks Linda

Was it published on April 1st?

No seems genuine

It might well be the right age Linda. A friend of ours, Charlotte Hughes, died in 1993 age 115. Believe me she looked wonderful, and looked about 70. She had been widowed longer than she was married, and retired longer than she ever worked as a school teacher.

Dianne xx

I think it could be correct. I´ve just googled and there are a lot of records of 120 yr. olds. Probably there were quite a lot of real "oldies" who would never of hit the headlines as they lived perhaps in isolated villages. I have ancestors who were still working the land in their 90´s.

Thinking on these lines, a few weeks ago I was sitting next to a couple of elderly ladies who were having a go at the waiter about the wine they´d ordered with the meal. We started a very stimulating conversation and they told me one was 96 (still driving) and the other 104. They told me they do the Times crossword every day but get bored with it as it isn´t stimulating enough!

Until I took up this research I had the impression that before our generation people popped off in their 40s and 50s (if they were lucky). I was amazed to find octo and nono generians amongst my ag labs. My GGFx4 was 92 when he died in 1827 and his wife 87 when she died a year earlier. My GGFx3 was 86 in the 1861 and still working. Many of my other lines were well in their 80s. I guess the high death rate of children brought down the average age that we all accepted as the norm.

Thanks all it is interesting isn't it?

Linda

No, son of said GGFx3 above was shifted down to Stepney docks in the mid 1830s following a bit of bovver locally with ag labs rioting and smashing up the new machinery. He died aged 50.

I would guess that the article has been read by a print recognition programme that couldn't decipher the original newsprint.

I've looked at a map of Warwick but can't spot any likely candidate placenames.

Sounds like the guy came from Warwick. Is there anything on Family Search about him?