To ask if any of you have a grandparent who was born under Queen Victoria's reign?

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I know it sounds daft but not long ago I realised that my maternal grandmother was actually born when in Victorian times. During the last years albeit, but this has really blown my mind.
I'm only in my thirties!

Just goes to show that living memory is longer for others than we think.

Yes my Grandad was, he fought in WW1 but was too old for WW2!

He met my Grandmother after his first wife died and had my DF when he was in his late 50's early 60's.

I am mid 30's.

Yep, most of mine were. My great granny dressed as a Victorian/Edwardian when DM was a child in the 1930's She was apparently a right old tartar and ran a chippy despite never having been taught to read or write!

Fathers side Granny was 1908 and grandad 1906

Unsure about mums side

I'm 37

Nearly.... she was born in 1905.... btw... I'm 44...

My paternal grandfather was born in 1891.

1904, 1904, 1913 and 1922 not quite victorian.

I'm mid-30s

It is gobsmacking, isn't it?

My grandmother was born 1900, DM in 1934.

The world has changed sooooo much in that time.

My DM often gets cross at folk pining for the 'good' old days. She likes to bring up the racism, misogyny, human rights and societal child abuse that went on with gusto.

Nope - 1915, 1917, 1921 and 1926. I'm mid-30s.

It always blows my mind to think back to the 50s and 60s and who the old folks were at that time. No wonder rebellion was so sweet then, the old guard were literally Victorians. And how strange it must have been to have grown up in the 1880s/1890s and then live through Beatlemania and all the rest of it.

My Nan's oldest full sister was now I think of it. And her half sister. Forgot that.

Yes- paternal grandfather was born in 1897 and remembered the mourning when QV died. I'm 50.

All of mine were. We really stretched out the generations in my family.

Yes, my maternal grandfather. Born 1898. I'm 39.

My paternal grandfather was born in 1893. I'm 50...

All four of my grandparents were born while Victoria was queen, but not technically under her reign as they were all Americans.

Dh's dad was born in 1909 so well over 100 years ago. All our grandparents were born in the 1880s and 90s. I'm in my early 50s.

Yep - kids did a project on this at school so we did some research. All but one of my grandparents were born in Victoria's reign. Paternal grandfather served in WW1 and my Dad served in WW2. I'm 47.

My great grandmother who saw Victoria was a country girl who never went to school and never learnt to read or write. She was in service in London before WW1 and died in the mid 80s. The changes in her lifetime were mad. Cars, men on the moon, Concorde, two world wars and nuclear weapons. Even electricity and radio.

My paternal grandfather was.

All my grandparents were Victorians except my Mum's mother, who was born in 1902.
My Dad was only just an Edwardian, born a month before Edward VII died, when little boys were still dressed in frocks until they were 3 or 4.
This picture of my dad was taken in November 1912, when he was two and a half - it was taken exactly 100 years before the day he died.

My maternal GF was born in 1899. Seems unthinkable.

It is gobsmacking, isn't it?

Not really.

There are plenty of people still alive whose parents were born in the Victorian era.

My paternal grandmother was born on 1899. I think my paternal grandfather was born around the same time. He died in 1952.

I'm 49 and my DF is the 11th child out of 12. All survived well into adulthood. Two aunties, 2 uncles and my DF are still alive. I'm the 33rd grandchild out of 34.

My maternal grandparents were born 1905 and 1908.

I thought I was unusual in this regard, so this is welcome news!

My grandparents were born in the early 1890's, I'm in my 50's. One grandad served in the first war (other had flat feet or something) & my dad was in the Second World War.

The thing that always weirds me out is that when I was a kid the war seemed like ancient history - but the end of it was less than 20 years before I was born!

Wow , thought we were late breeders but clearly not! Both my grandfathers born before 1901, I am early 50s. Grandmothers - one Edwardian, one Georgian.

Interesting thread!

Yes, mine were. All long since passed away, as you might expect.

I went to the funeral of a lady a few weeks ago, who was 102! Incredulous to think of all the change in life - society, culture, medical advances, laws, etc let alone technology that she had lived through!