Earliest Birth Year - any 1800s?

[T'Bonz]

OK, this is a bit different and it's obviously going to favor older people. Sorry about that!

Of someone who you've met, who was born the longest time ago?

For me, it's my paternal grandfather. He was born in 1880. He lived to be 91.

I had a maternal great-grandfather born in 1881 that I got to meet. He was ancient!

Two of my great-grandparents, who I knew (one died when I was 19,) were born in 1892 and 1895.

Next? Remember, you had to have met this person and be able to remember them.

 

[Hermiod]

My great grandfather was born in 1897. He lived until he was 98. I visited him often so yeah, I remember him.

 

[Roger Wilco]

I don't think I can beat that.

My grandfather was born in 1910 and died three years ago. I met friends of his a couple times, but I think few were older than him, and if so not by much.

 

[ITL]

I met one of my great-grandfathers when I was a kid in the early 1970's - he was in his 80's or 90's. It was at a family gathering, and I remember all of us kids sitting on the floor listening to him tell a story.

 

[Miss Chicken]

When I was working in a nursing home at a teenager (in 1976) the oldest woman in the home had been born in 1880. I know that it was that year for certain because I once commented to her that she was born in the year Ned Kelly was hanged.

However an old woman my Dad used to help out when I was a child was, I believe, born before 1880. We knew this lovely lady as "Auntie Elsie". Dad used to mow her lawn and do some gardening for her when I was about 8 or 9. This would mean that this was in about 1967 and I believe she was about 90 years old which would mean she would have been born in the late 1870s.

My grandparents, were all born in the 1890s but my paternal grandfather died when Mum was a child.

- Though this isn't really anything to do with the opening question -

I think it is quite odd to realise that my great-grandfather, Henry Figg, was born in 1835. He was 63 when he fathered my grandmother. This meant that just three generations of my family spanned 175 years, from the birth of Henry's mother in 1797 to the death of my grandmother in 1972.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

The oldest relative i have that i have met is my paternal grandmother. She's approaching 90 very quickly.

 

[Roshi]

Just to explain the age gap b/w my relatives and me, know that I'm 35.
My paternal grandfather was born in 1889 and died in 1964, and my paternal grandmother was born in 1899 and died in 1996.

 

[Amaris]

My great grandmother was born in 1894, and I got to meet her once before she passed away at 96 years old. She talked like she had seen everything in her life, and I'm quite apt to believe she did.

J.

 

[pookha]

some of my relatives easily.
i was a late in life baby born when my parents were in their 40's back in 57.
so i know my grandfather, step grandmother, some of my mothers relatives including a great aunt were all born in the 1800's.

 

[RJDiogenes]

My grandfather on my mother's side was born in 1899 or 1900, depending on which documents you believe; either way, he was born in the 19th century. He's the only one I know the birth year of so specifically off the top of my head. On my father's side, I "knew" my great-great-grandmother, but I really can't say that I remember her clearly; she was born in the early 1870s. My great-grandmother on my father's side would have been born around the same time as my grandfather on my mother's side, maybe a couple of years earlier.

 

[Bloodwhiner]

Looks like I'm going to set the new measure..

My paternal grandmother was born in 1868 and lived to be 99, I vaguely remember meeting her as a child.

My father was born in 1908 and lived to be 84. My mother was born in 1920 and is still going strong (often mistaken for someone in their 70's, which is good at her age)

 

[Niorah]

My great grandmother was born in 1888, I remember her very well from when I was a little child, she used to live with her youngest daughter (one of my great-aunts) and they would come and visit very often.

 

[Shaw]

Carobeth Laird (born 1895)... she and I spent tons of time talking on quite a few different subjects (including Star Trek) in the brief years in which our lives overlapped. I don't think I've met anyone else quite like her since.

 

[Deckerd]

My gran was born in 1894. She saw Queen Victoria on her diamond jubilee tour. She said she was too small to see what was going on, so a man lifted her onto his shoulders so she could see the coaches going by. She died when she was 93.

 

[Finn]

All but one of my great-grandparents were dead by the time I had been born, my mother's maternal grandmother. She was born in 1896. I remember standing by the door as Grandma spoke to her. By that time, she didn't know anybody, not even my grandma or her siblings. She passed away on my grandma's birthday.

I might have met other people born in the 1800's when I was growing up tho.

 

[Nardpuncher]

I got nuthin' but this thread made me think about James Doohan.

He had a daughter about 10 years ago with he last wife ( I believe he had more than one) and he was in WWII right? So if his daughter lives to be 100 she could tell stories about her father being in WWII ( as well as a little TV show) 160 years ago!

 

[Kaziarl]

My family says I've met my double-great grandfather... but that was because he was still haunting our house... soo.... yeah, not sure about that one. He was born something like 187-ish

 

[May 20]

My maternal grandmother is 88, which means she was born in 1920. Her mother was probably born between 1895-1900, and I remember her vividly. She died when I was about 13, I think.

 

[btflash]

my great grand mother. she was born in 1878 and died in 1974.

 

[Cicero]

I know that one of my great aunts was in her mid-90s in 1992. Some others of my elder relatives whom I met when little might have been born earlier. My great-grandfather was the youngest of his family, and he died only two weeks ago, at 100.