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Old 05-10-20, 16:05
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Default Oldest person in your tree that you have a photo of?

Who's the oldest person in your tree that you have a picture of?

I have Henry William Goode aged 102 you can see him in the pictures here.

Can anybody beat that??


https://chiddicksfamilytree.com/2020...oode-aged-102/
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Old 05-10-20, 21:57
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No, I can't beat that. The oldest person in my tree is Ann Smith, 1800-1900 and I have a couple of photos of her probably taken around 1890, as her husband had photos taken at the same time and he died in 1893.

I also have a few photos of people born before 1800, taken in the 1860s and 1870s and a few early photos, taken in the 1850s, but they are of younger people. Some are posted on the Family Photos board on this site:

http://www.genealogistsforum.co.uk/F...splay.php?f=35
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Old 06-10-20, 11:33
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102 is going to take some beating.
Not the oldest, but I have one of the tallest, Fred Kempster. His photos can be found on Google. Fred is my 2nd cousin 2x removed.
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Old 06-10-20, 12:16
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3xg aunt Amelia Julia Atkinson was a youthful 97 when she died in 1925.She emigrated to NZ aged
25 & had 12 children. I have a couple of photos of her in later life, including one which appears in
the Otago Early Settlers Museum.
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Old 06-10-20, 14:22
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Different era to everyone else. 2nd cousin twice removed Dot 1912 -2017 (104 and 6 months).

Edit to add I unfortunately never met her but do have several photos of her.
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Old 06-10-20, 20:28
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I think I can probably win the prize on this one, although the lady isn't a very close relation, and I never met her: Dorothy Sarah Baldwin, my 4th cousin once removed, who died in 2014, just a few weeks before her 112th birthday.

This photo was taken on her 109th birthday:

https://stories.swns.com/news/britai..._baldwin_01-1/
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Old 10-10-20, 18:27
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Thanks everyone for sharing your stories of longevity with me, lots of wonderful stories and I hope they have passed on those genes tomall of us!

109 have to say is amazing and to almost reach 112 is almost record breaking
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