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, both my paternal grandparents were born in the 1890's. Due to the First World War they met and married relatively late in life for those times.

My dad was born in 1926, same as the queen. And I am 42.

No but one was born the day the titanic sank

Mine too. Amazing really. Two centuries ago.

RustyBear that's a beautiful photo.

Trying to work out how you can be 39 and have grandparents born before 1901. Your parents and grandparents didn't have children until they were in their 40s?

I am 54 and my grandparents were born 1899, 1901, 1906, 1908.

For a Victorian, I'd be going back to my great, great grandparents in the 1880s. My great grandma was pre-war, she saw in the Millennium. My grandma was just prior to WW2. I'm mid-thirties. My family tends to do young first children and big age gaps, so as a descendent of various older/ oldest children, I'm in the "wrong" generation according to the equivalents in my line of the family tree- I have cousins that are in nappies

My DCs have great grandparents younger than their granny, and had a full set of maternal great grandparents when they were born!

My paternal Grandmother could remember the Franco-Prussian war from her childhood.

My sole remaining grandparent and my dh's were born in 1922 and 1924 respectively so their parents would have been victorians.

My father's parents were born in1897 and 1899, my grandmother had died just before l was born but l was 12 when my grandfather died, my father is 93 he was born in 1924 and well remembers the great depression of the 1930's and pretty NHS days when you paid a weekly few pence to a kind of co-op so you could get a doctor if you needed one, when his little sister was born he was sent on a bike all round the district to find the doctor he was. 9. From age 7 he was expected to walk to the market 3 miles away get what his mother wanted at right price and walk back with it if he got it cheap he could use the penny change to get the tram home but if he couldn't get price down he walked home. He never felt remotely hard done by as loving family and his father was working all hours and his mother had 3 littler ones he won scholarship to grammar school but couldn't take it as they couldn't afford uniform and books.
it seems strange that life has changed so much instead of ringing NHS 24 you sent a young boy to physically look around town until he found the GP

Paternal grandfather 1885, paternal grandmother 1886, maternal grandfather 1885, maternal grandmother 1889.
I'm 56 and my parents were both born when their mothers were in their 40s.

Bibbity

My grandfather was 46 when he had my dad in 1945.

'Trying to work out how you can be 39 and have grandparents born before 1901. Your parents and grandparents didn't have children until they were in their 40s?'

Both my parents were the youngest children of very large families and then my parents had us in their mid and late 30s.

Paternal Grandparents 1883 and 1884
Maternal Grandparents 1869 and 1871

Rusty that is an amazing photo. Thank you for sharing it here.
My Great Grandfather was born in 1902 so just missed being a Victorian. He lived to 96 and was a massive part of my life until my mid 20s.
However he did live in the street photographed during the 1911 census. Which always brings home to me how much things have changed in the last century

No longer alive, but my grandparents were born in 1875, 1878, 1890 and 1892.

However, one of my great grandfathers was born in 1819, in the reign of George III.

None of them I don't think. I'd imagine my maternal great-grandparents must have been... my Nan was born in 1929 so maybe? My paternal grandad was born in 1952.

I thought my Gran was born in 1901 but it turns out her birth cert said 1897. My granddad was born around 1895 and was a tunnel rat in ww1.

My other grandparents were born in 1905 and 1912.

My Great Grandparents travelled from Italy in 1870 and then opened the first ice cream emporium in Sunderland when they moved from Scotland in the early 20th century.

Never thought about it before but my DGF born 14 th Jan 1878, I googled and that was the day Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone to queen Victoria.

My father was born in 1912 and his sister was born in 1908. My maternal grandfather was born 1910.

My aunt died when she was 103 ..... massive changes in her lifetime.

I'm 47.

My paternal gf was born in 1880s, I'm mid 40s

Wow Polo the differences between your dad's childhood and your own must have been huge.

My mother's father was born in 1859. Long generations and older parents in my family.

I was told recently that my grandfather would recall having seen the plume from the Krakatoa eruption as he sailed back to the UK from New Zealand as a child.

That blew my mind

Just had my 30th, and one of my grandparents was born in the 1890s.

Grandfather was born 1893. All other g'parents in 1900s. Grandad said his g'mother watched the troops leaving for the Crimean War.