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.

Not my grandparents, but think at least two sets of great grandparents would have been.

All my grandparents were born in the 1930's but two were the younger/youngest of their respective sets of parents who would have been "older" parents when said grandparents were born.

My DGF was 65 when my DM was born.

All my grandparents were born in her reign.

Only one of my grandparents was born in the 20c.(1902)
The other three were born between 1870 and 1885. Great great uncle fought in the American civil war (and lost a leg)

My parents were children in large families and were themselves old when they had me. I'm mid 40s going on a hundred at times. My dad was born during ww1, he was in the RAF for Ww2.

I have very old skool Victorian manners.

My paternal grandmother was born in 1899. I'm 46.

On my dads side, yes.

My mums parents were a bit younger. My maternal grandad fought in ww2 and took part in the Normandy landings and was also involved in the taking of a famous bridge in Belgium I think. I can't remember the bridge but dh got excited when my mum told him about it.

My mum and dad both remembered WWII, both were young children at the time. My mum especially remembers her dad being away at war and thinking any man in uniform was her dad. She used to shout daddy to any soldier she saw in the street! Because her mum had to work during the war my mum started school early, at three years old and had to travel across Nottingham with her five year old sister on public transport to school! My g

My paternal grandfather was born in 1873. Survived two world wars to be killed by a drunken idiot in a sports car.

My dad was born in 1900.

Ludendorff bridge? Battle of Remagen?

I do (or did, they have all passed on now). I remember someone saying on a thread a little while back "Some of us were raised by people who were raised by Victorians", to explain why some posters have rather different family life experiences than others. I thought that was an interesting way of putting it

Huh. So I was totally off with the my number of greats in my thread about Victorian values. It was soo much closer than I thought.

Im 54
I think my paternal grandmother is down as 1900 but was born in Cyprus so no proper records , i think my GF was older.
My maternal grandparents were born in 1910 and 1913.

My eldest grandparent was born in the 1880s, the others all around 1900. I'm 41. Two generations having children in their 40s is all it takes to stretch the generations out quite a lot - I have friends of a similar age to me whose grandparents are only a couple of years older than my parents.

My great grandmother was

Not quite. I'm nearly 40. My dad's mum was born in 1906 (died 2002) and had my dad when she was 39. He was her 4th. She'd been told she'd never have children after a nasty accident but she had her first child at 30.

She didn't actually have a birth certificate as her mother was unmarried. She was raised by her uncle and his wife as they apparently put her mother on a boat to America, such was the shame of the time.

My grandma and grandpa on dads side - gran was 1899, I don't know grandads year of birth :(

I no longer have grandparents or parents as my mum was 40 when she had me

I think you mean HAD a grandparent that was born.....etc. If you HAVE one they would be amongst the oldest people in the world at 116+.

My grandad who died when I was 7 or 8 and whom I remember well, was born in 1899. I'm mid 40s.

As previous poster said it doesn't take many late born children to stretch generations out. My parents could have been close siblings age wise with dh grandparents.

It's a " timeslip" I feel a lot now as we only lost his gran a few years before I lost my parents, and the in laws are still relatively younger and fit thank goodness as I love em to bits.

My paternal grandfather was born in 1886. There was a large age gap between him and my grandmother. I was a later baby of my parents.

I'm mid-30s and think it slightly surreal that he'd be 131 this year.

yes. my grandmother lost her sweetheart in ww1 so married late, had children late. also my mum and I have had children late 30s. (something like 36 -39)

My paternal GF was born around 1890. His first wife died and he went on to marry my much younger GM. They had my DDad when GF was 56 and GM was in her 30s. DDad was 33 when I was born, I am now 37.

I never met my paternal GF as he died in his early 80s about 11 years before I was born I think. All other GPs were born after 1910.

On my Dad's side - his father was born in 1887 and his mother in 1901.

Well, actually, Granny was born three months after Victoria died.

My maternal grandparents were a bit younger though.

1897 not 1887!!

Paternal grandmother born in 1888. Grandfather in 1886. Maternal grandmother born in 1901. Not sure about maternal grandfather. I only knew my maternal grandmother as all the others died before I was born. I'm in my mid fifties.