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Old 01-05-21, 18:18
Olde Crone Olde Crone is offline
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Have to check actual ages but I know it was my biggest single surprise when I started doing my family history to discover how old most of my ancestors were when they died. Best is one of my 2x ggms, who died of old age at 92, at which point she was still climbing over 100 steps four times a day to tend the lighthouse. She was married and widowed three times, had eleven children and brought up three sets of grandchildren after their mothers died.

Most of my ancestors who survived childbirth and freak accidents, lived to a ripe old age although tb got the better of some of them in the 19th century when they moved from country to city.

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