To ask if anyone past 30 still has a full set of grandparents?

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I'm mid 30s and have one grandparent left. Most people I know of a similar age are in a similar boat 0-2 grandparents still alive.

Out of curiosity really, has anyone been lucky enough to have made it past 30 with the 'full set' of two grandfathers and grandmothers?

I'm 41. I have 3 of my grandparents still here. My other grandad died when I was a teenager. Other 3 still going strong.

Maternal GM died in childbirth at 28 when DM was 7
Paternal GM died aged 84 when I was 5.
Paternal GF died in his 60s when dad was 7.
Maternal GF died at 81.
Never knew GGPs.

My paternal grandad died when I was 19, paternal grandmother died when I was 29, very recently lost my maternal grandparents when I was 32.

I had all 4 when I was born. Paternal grandmother died weeks before my 23rd birthday, paternal grandfather died when I was 29. Now late 30s and still have the other 2 left.

DS1 had 7 out of 8 great grandparents plus step great grandad when he was born, DS2 had 5. They now at 15 and 11 have 3 great grandparents left but sadly have lost 1 grandad (DH's DDad) recently.

some of my great-grandparents were alive until I was in my late 20s too.

I had not realised it was unusual. I'm guessing it is becoming more unusual as people have children at an older age..

but commonly in my family 17 or 18 was the age to start a family - a child is born to a 17yrold parent, with 34yr old grandparent, 51yr old great grandparent, 68year old great-great grandparent, then the 85yr old great-great-great grandparent - 102 might be pushing it for great-great-great-great grandparent...

One grandad was dead way before I was born (he died when dad was 21) but I had the other 3 till I was 35, then over the last 3 yrs those 3 passed away. I wasn't particularly fond of any of them and they made it clear I wasn't their favourite. I would have rather had one gp that loved me than 3 that weren't fussed.

If my DC have DC at the same ages I had them (which is likely the way trends are going) then I doubt I'll live past their 10th birthday, if I'm even alive when they are born in the first place. :(

My paternal gran died when I was 1
Maternal gandad died when I was 12
Paternal grandad died when I was 13
Maternal gran when I was 19

DS has all 4 plus an extra granny

I am 41 and I still have all 4 my grandparents. They're in their 90s now. My children don't even have all four their grandparents anymore. My husband's father died last year.

I’m almost 30 and still have a full set. Plus one great gran.

I had all 4 aged 30. At nearly 40 I have 2 left. I’m very lucky

I’m 37 and have three grandparents left. Two grandfathers and one grandmother.

My great-grandmother died when I was 30.

My husband is 39 and only has one grandfather left.

I had three when I was born.

Then lost the others when I was 3, 18 and 26.

The grandparent who died when I was 26 outlived both my parents.

Sadly not me. My great grandmothers were alive til they were 96 and 100, when I was 14 & 22. I thought I'd have a full set of grandparents til I was in my 40's.
Then I very quickly lost my 2 Nanna's at 24 & 25. I've only got one grandpa and a step nan left now I'm 32, ironically they're the oldest 2 at 89 & 96.
I think my great grandparents generation were the longest lived, looking at my parents and ex in laws health I doubt they will even make the age my grandparents did.

I had all four grandparents when I was thirty, three of them were at my wedding (one was estranged from my mother) and knew my oldest two children. I also had two great grandparents till I was 10. I now only have my Nan left who is 94. I lost my Grandma in 2007, Grandad in 2013 and my other grandfather who we didn't have anything to do with in 2016. My Nan has only just gone into a home. She is made of strong stuff. The fags and valium didn't seem to do any damage, thinking of it nor did the Blitz as she refused to go into the shelter in the garden with her family and instead went off to blackout dances. She had 5 brothers who all fought in WW2 and came home and then lived long lives as well.

I lost my first grandparent at two, the second at 13, one about 5 years ago. I have a maternal grandfather and a step grandmother (we're really close and she was my closest grandparent growing up despite biology). I'm 35. I think it depends if you come from a family where people tend to have children young, mine don't really.

ZOMBIE THREAD

I was 33 when I lost both my favourite grandparents. All the others died within a few years of that date, except my step granddad who I think must be late 90s now. I am so glad I got so long with them, but it is never enough. I would never have been ready to lose Nana and Grandigrumps. It broke my heart into pieces, I still cry a lot about it 5 years on.

One died long before I was born. I didn’t lose my first “known” grandparent until I was 31. I’m 45 and have one left.

I’ve already lost my mom

36. They started dying when I was about 9 and the last one passed away last year.

I'm just under 30 and lost my last grandparent- maternal DGM- in Sept 2017, aged 95. She had been my sole grandparent since July 2004. I had 3 GP alive at my time of birth and my paternal DGF died when I was about 9 months old. I grew up with only my maternal GPs.

I have older parents with an age gap between them (they're a v youthful looking 67 & 84 atm) and no DC of my own, so well aware that any future DC of mine possibly won't have much time with my DF.

My maternal grandparents also had an age gap. So although DGF died when I was 14 in 2004, he was 10 years older than DGM and was a week off 92 when he died, born in 1912. Paternal DGF was 79 and died from cancer possibly caused by environmental factors (3 men of a similar age in a v small village all died of bladder cancer in quick succession) and paternal DGM I think barely made 60- lifelong complications from rheumatic fever as a child. This seems such an old fashioned thing to have died of.

Paternal DGF aside, that branch of the family were mostly reasonably long lived. He was one of 8 born between early 1900s and mid 1910s and they all seem to have made it to at least the early 1980s before dying. Easily hitting 80.

I find the generation gaps quite fascinating. My maternal DGF was born in 1912, could remember hearing ww1 gunfire and grew up near a Southampton still reeling from the Titanic. Paternal DGF was briefly in the work house as a child and my DF remembers his paternal DGF telling stories of his service in the Boer War. The big age gaps are hard when they deny time and seem out of step, but they are also fascinating windows into other worlds.

My husband and I are 29 and both have all 4 grandparents. I also have a great grandparent still alive. My parents were fairly young when they had me, but not ridiculously so (22 and 27)

I lost all mine between 30 and 35. All lived past 80 and one past 90.

No. Both grandfather's died before I was born, 1st grandmother died when I was 11, 2nd when I was 14. DH has no grandparents alive either. DS is 14 and has neither grandfather - 1st before he was born, and the 2nd earlier this month.

I lost my maternal Grandma at 17 and maternal Grandad at 24. Still have both paternal grandparents though and they are in fairly good health so hopefully will still be around when I’m 30 (currently 26).

My DH is almost 30 and he’s got no grandads left but two nans

Oh and I had a great grandad until I was 10!