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My mother told me she was listening to Vaughan Williams' funeral shortly after giving birth to me. So I don't quite overlap with him.

My grandparents were all born in the 19th century, which seemed a very liong time ago when I was a child. One of them had her 5th birthday party was cancelled as a mark of respect for Queen Victoria, whose funeral was on that day. Grandma was not consulted on this decision.

timbo | 09.03.26 - 7:57 a.m. | #

Interesting

Still Anon | 09.03.26 - 8:29 a.m. | #

I had a great great aunt who had talked with an old soldier who fought at the battle of Waterloo.
She said he recalled he was very scared and had no idea what was going on which struck me as being about right.

Chris | 09.03.26 - 8:42 a.m. | #

Does a cellist baʊ out or boʊ out or boʊth?

daveid76 | 09.03.26 - 9:32 a.m. | #

I remember my C19 great-grandparents, and I now have a young great-nephew who should comfortably see C22. So in terms of actual acquaintances, I will have a four-century span.

Philip | 09.03.26 - 9:35 a.m. | #

I am fascinated by the huge spans that can be attained by two generations in a family, usually when an elderly father has a child who then lives to an advanced age.

One of my ancestors was born in 1776 and married again late in life to a much younger wife. He was then the father (at least on paper) of a son who died in 1943, so a span of 167 years.

I believe that the record may be held by Alice Grigg of Belvedere who died in 1970 aged 107. Her father had been born 171 years earlier in 1799 and she was the last-known person to have a parent born in the 18th century.

B2024 | 09.03.26 - 9:54 a.m. | #

Can’t quite reach the C19 directly, but as a late child of older parents, my family spans well over a century in just two generations: my (long-deceased) father was born before 1910, a time more often associated by many of my peers with their grandparents. Not Waterloo, obviously, but my father lived through WWI as a child. Envisaging the family history poses some problems at that distance.

Labourer | 09.03.26 - 9:56 a.m. | #

I overlap with 2 great grandmothers who were born in the 1870s and several great aunties and uncles born around 20 years later.

Cornish Cockney | 09.03.26 - 12:10 p.m. | #

Similar to Labourer, my dad was a youngster during WW1, fought in WW2, was in his 50s when I arrived, and I'm a bit younger than DG.

My younger brother's kids are still in school, so theoretically if they reach about 100, these three generations could span 200 years.

Alice Grigg's 2 generation record would still be safe though.

EStepnist | 09.03.26 - 12:27 p.m. | #

My grandparents were born in the 1860s/1870s; parents in the early 20th century-1909/1912. Only one grandparent was still around when I was born mid-century--joining the 12.2 million crowd. Grandmother died when I was 10. Both parents died before the turn of the century. Some of my grandchildren might make it to the next century unless the orange idiot does us all in before then.

Mary | 09.03.26 - 12:32 p.m. | #

One set of grandparents (my father’s parents) born in 1860s - I knew my grandmother and she died in 1957. My mother’s parents born 1880 and 1891 - my grandfather died 11 days after I was born. My mother’s grandmother, my great grandmother born 1870 and died 1954., I can just remember her. One of my father’s uncles was killed in the Zulu wars in the 1870s.

Sara | 09.03.26 - 1:53 p.m. | #

I overlap with two great grandfathers, born in the 1870s and 1880s, and my youngest grandchild was born in January of this year, so potentially could be 250 years span.

Mark Miller | 09.03.26 - 5:15 p.m. | #

Happy Birthday DG!

I am well aware that I should have posted this in the other comment box but that had 61 happy birthday posts for your 61st birthday and I couldn't bear to spoil that.

dg writes: alas...

Tunnel Bore | 09.03.26 - 10:30 p.m. | #

Another big Yawn

Auntie Banana | 10.03.26 - 1:44 p.m. | #

Happy birthday!

Lucy | 11.03.26 - 8:26 a.m. | #











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