My 103 years old gt gt gt gt Grandmother.....

[TOM TAYLOR]

My gt gt grandfather, David Taylor, was born in St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, in 1802 to James Taylor and Margaret Brotherstone. He died in Greenock in January 1900.
In an obituary in the 23 Jan. 1900 Greenock Telegraph, the writer quoted him as being dismissive of his great age of 97, saying his grannie had lived to the age of 103 years.
Has anyone come across a 103 years old lady during their research of the 1800s? Her surname would have been Taylor or Brotherstone.
(Auld Davie had omitted to say which grannie!!)

Best Wishes
Tom Taylor
Taunton, Somerset

[nelmit]

My gt gt grandfather, David Taylor, was born in St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, in 1802 to James Taylor and Margaret Brotherstone. He died in Greenock in January 1900.
In an obituary in the 23 Jan. 1900 Greenock Telegraph, the writer quoted him as being dismissive of his great age of 97, saying his grannie had lived to the age of 103 years.
Has anyone come across a 103 years old lady during their research of the 1800s? Her surname would have been Taylor or Brotherstone.
(Auld Davie had omitted to say which grannie!!)

Best Wishes
Tom Taylor
Taunton, Somerset

Hi Tom,

Have you checked SP for this lady's death? There can't be many aged around 103.

Are you aware that the 1841 census for Edinburgh is on the FREECEN site?
http://freecen.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl

There are a lot of Taylors and Brotherstones but you may be able to decipher yours.

Regards,
Annette

[JustJean]

Hi Tom

I was thinking the same thing as Annette. There's a good chance she lived beyond 1855 so should appear in the Statutory records. 103 is quite an accomplishment in that era!!!

Best wishes
Jean

[AndrewP]

A quick search on ScotlandsPeople gives the following results:

Taylor, female, 1855 to 1900, age 100 to 105, 7 results (2 prior to 1870)
Brotherston*, female, 1855 to 1900, age 100 to 105, no results

But (there has to be a but), there are two other possibilities that you have to consider:
(1) She could have died pre-1855, and therefore there was no death certificate.
(2) Although the age at death has been on the death certificates since 1855, there is a group of years (1855 to 1865?) for which these have not been fully indexed yet. To make the database work, these are all recorded as age 131 years. Try it for Taylor females - 1855 to 1865 gives nearly 900 results at age 131. I cannot recommend you to check each of them.

All the best,

Andrew Paterson

[TOM TAYLOR]

Andrew, Jean and Annette,

many thanks for your replies. I'll follow up your suggestions.
Unfortunately, Queen Victoria didn't send out telegrams to centenarians in those days

Best Wishes
TOM