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Oh too bad for Amy Rosina.

But she got the chance to do as my Nan did (at a year younger) --

'I'm in my 100th year'. :-)

Cynthia, time will tell, and only time will tell!



Detective - I wonder whether we share Pearces ... not likely of course.

I recently learned that an ancestor's Pearce sister-in-law was second cousin to Patrick and Willie Pearce of 1916 Easter Rising fame!

(so who weren't really Irish at all, of course)

Faulty memory -

Amy Isabel (Allen) Pearce 27 May 1889 - 20 Jun 1999 (she was on the 'oldest Britons' list at one time)
Her daughter Any Rosina (Pearce) Chick - 6 Oct 1912 - 9 Feb 2012, so she didn't quite make it.

My maternal set of grandparents had amazing genes!

My grandmother and her four sisters all lived into their late 80's and 90's whilst their two brothers died young of illness.

My grandfather was pushed around in a wheelchair for several years but went on to fight in the Boer War, the Boxer Uprising and WW1 and I have a picture of him with his great granddaughter when he was 94. Most of his 11 siblings lived to very good ages but I need to check three who emigrated to Canada to see if they carried on the tradition of living to ripe old ages.

Time will tell as to whether I have inherited this genetic longevity :-D

You three have some oldies!

If any of them died in 2009 or after, aged 107 or older, they will be on this list:

http://oldestinbritain.nfshost.com/deathsall.php

Detective you might find your cousin there. Or --

It also shows living people aged 107 or older (whether or not they asked to be included, I guess!):

http://oldestinbritain.nfshost.com/living.php

Shirley I imagine that people who live to that age mostly do have their faculties, which is certainly a blessing. Sadly, Alzheimer and other dementias have physical effects too and lead to earlier deaths.


And of course we all know that with each year we add to our age, our odds of living to the next age go up! :-)

My mums elder half sister died aged 102 in 2008

She still had all her faculties just went frail in her body for the last 18 months of her life

I did find a couple a few years ago, but distant cousins on OHs side. Mother & daughter both aged between 100 & 110. The daughter, assuming she isn't alive, would have died after 2006 when on line records cease.

No one on the list, the best I can manage is a first cousin twice removed who was 107 and a great uncle who was 105. Dad's sister was 99 and a great grandmother was 95.

We have good genes. :-)

My grandmother who died at 94 ... her father-in-law died at about the same age. (Her husband, my grandfather whose father that was, died in his late 70s, having had rheumatic fever as a child and a lifelong "weak heart", and then strokes in old age.)

Unfortunately for me, the grandfather married to the grandmother who died at 98 died at 65. Unfortunately for me, because he's the one whose genes I mostly have: the factors that lead to heart disease. Fortunately for her, however ... since she got to live 30 more years ... without him.

My gran died aged 99 -on October 31st!! :-0

Her grandfather was killed 'by enemy action' in 1942, aged 90.
Fleeing enemy bombers, dropping their bombs for a quick get away.
He was stood outside the greengrocers shop - he still ran - in Aldeburgh!

Got any in your tree?

http://oldestinbritain.nfshost.com/supercent.php


My paternal grandmother was 'in her 99th year' when she died (the other was in her 95th), but didn't quite make it to greetings from the Queen.


I ran across this list while trying to find someone on the Find Living Relatives board ... I was sceptical that a person who married in 1979 could have been the person born 1892 I was looking for, but lo and behold, it was, and she is on that list.