Things to be Remembered in Daily Life: With Personal Experiences and RecollectionsTimbs, John
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Things to be Remembered in Daily Life: With Personal Experiences and Recollections
Timbs, John
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We now proceed to cite instances of Long Life from various localities.
On the fly-leaves of a book named _Long Livers_, published in 1722, were
written the following notes of several old persons in Yorkshire: Ursula
Chicken, at Holderness, 120 years in 1718, and she lived some years
later. In Firbeck churchyard were buried a brother and son, one 113 and
the other 109 years old, both of whom had lived in caves at Roche Abbey.
Mr. Philip, of Thorner, born in Cleveland (the birthplace of Old
Jenkins), had his picture taken when he was 116 years old, with all his
senses perfect. Thomas Rudyard, Vicar of Everton, in Bedfordshire, died
in King Charles’s time, aged 140 years, as appears by the parish
register. Early in June 1768 died, at Burythorpe, near Malton, Francis
Consit, aged 150 years. A few years previously there were three women,
each 100 years old, or upwards, who lived in and about Whitwell, met at
that town and danced a Yorkshire reel. About 1758 a woman died at Sutton
107 years old. “Old Robinson’s father, at Boltby, lived to 108,” and he
himself beyond 98.[52]
The register of Middleton Tyas, adjoining, contains, in sixteen years,
entries of 230 persons buried, of whom seventy-six had reached the age
of 70 years or upwards. In 1813, of fifteen deceased, three were 90, 91,
and 92; in 1815 a person died 97; and thirty-three of the number
specified were 80 years old and upwards; and in the churchyard are
buried two persons of 103 and 101 years. But within the last thirty-five
years instances of longevity in this parish, once so common, form the
exception.
Mr. Durrant Cooper, F.S.A., has communicated to _Notes and Queries_, No.
212, these interesting records from the burial register of
Skelton-in-Cleveland, in the North Riding of Yorkshire:
Out of 799 persons buried between 1813 and 1852, no less than 263,
or nearly one-third, attained the age of 70. Of these, two were
respectively 101. Nineteen others were 90 years of age and upwards,
viz. one 97, one 96, one 95, four 94, one 93, five 92, three 91, and
three 90. Between the ages of 80 and 90 there died 109; and between
70 and 80 there died 133. In one page of the register, containing
eight names, six were above 80, and in another five were above 70.
In the parish of Skelton there was then living a man named Moon, 104
years old, who was blind, but managed a small farm till nearly or
quite 100; and a blacksmith, named Robinson Cook, aged 98, who
worked at his trade until within six months of this age.
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