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.

I'm in my 30's and my Grandfather was born just before Queen Victoria died.

Well I know my maternal gm was born in 1896 - and I knew her. Maternal gd was older i assume.
Paternal gps- must have been older still as my dad was born in 1919 - and he had 5 older sisters. I'm 48.

Yes my great grandma was born in 1901. She died when she was 111! She's even got her own Wikipedia page!

Love threads like this

What amazes me is that your grandparent telling you something that their grandparent told them could be information passed directly to you that has spanned over 100 years! If that makes sense?

I'm early 40s and my grandpa was born in 1884. Died well before I was born though. "Youngest" grandparent born 1918

My grandfather was born in 1898 and died in the early 1990s. I always thought it would have been good (wrong choice of word but hopefully you know what I mean) for him to have lived until at least 2000 so that he'd lived through a whole century.

My maternal GM was born in 1901 and my GF in 1900.
DF's parents were older, but I'm not sure when they were born

my grandpa - 1899

died 1980
I am 46

I know someone (living) who was born before 1910.

She's 110 now.

Bridge was Arnhem, apparantly there's a good film made about the battle with Sean Connery in it. Must watch it!

My father was born in 1905, so some of his older siblings, my uncles and aunts, were born in Victoria's reign.

All my Grandparents were born in the 19th Century.

No but my great-granny (born 1919) was raised by her grandmother who was born in the mid 1800s. I knew my great granny so well and it's amazing that she had such a strong link to the past.

Three of my grandparents were Victorian - and my paternal grandfather was born in 1901 and just missed out. I am almost ancient though.

My maternal grandmother used to tell us of her memories - the death of Queen Victoria, the end of the Boer War, the sinking of the Titanic - they all sounded like ancient history to me. (Yes, I know the Boeing War ending and the Titanic sinking were post-Victorian)

My father, who is 90, tells me that he remembers as a very small boy being taken to meet a very old man (103 - a remarkable age for the time) who was born in the reign of George VI

None of mine but DH s grandparents were born in the early 1880s, his mum and dad were born in 1920 & 1921.

His mum died recently, she was almost 97 and was constantly amazed and delighted by modern technology - she loved reading and doing crosswords on her tablet! She was a living history lesson for my two sons.

All of my grandparents were Victorians. I hadn't really thought of that before . The youngest (GM on DM's side) was born in 1899. I know that my GF was much older so could well have been born in the 1870s. On DF's side they were both born in the 1880s AFAIK. I'm 47.

Both my paternal grandparents were born in 1894 one hundred years later I had my son.

3 grandparents born in the 1890s. One grandfather joined the army in 1910 and went to India. There he saw The Duke of Connaught, an old man but younger son of Queen Victoria in an impressive procession. Following the idea of living memory - there is a famous portrait of The Duke of Wellington in old age with the same Duke of Connaught as a baby. There is so much rich verbal history in families isn't there? I loved talking to my grandparents.

All my GPs were Victorians. I am 48.

My paternal GF fought at Ypres and Paschendale. He died when I was 3/4. My maternal GPs died before my parents married.

I think it's amazing how life has changed in my Dads lifetime alone. My DS who is 9 was amazed when my Dad told him about being evacuated during WW2 and going on train journeys from London to BIrmingham by himself at age 8.

My granny was born in 1899, and she was the second youngest of 7. They lived on the Isle of Wight where Queen Vic used to go to Osborne House and one of my great aunts was given a penny by "the old lady" as the islanders called her.

Can't remember the year of my late maternal great-grandmother's birth but as a child she could remember seeing Victoria going past in her carriage on the Isle of Wight. This must have been right at the end of Victoria's reign as my GGM described her as a little wizened old woman sitting in the carriage

I'm 27 and my paternal grandmother was the youngest of 10 born in 1923 so her parents were Victorians. She was 40 when my dad was born.

President John Tyler's grandchildren are still alive - he was born in 1790. m.mentalfloss.com/article.php?id=29842

For the PP who said Hitler was born in 1881, he was actually born in 1889, because there were a couple of people in my class at school who were born on his 100th birthday and when someone realised that during history one year I've always remembered it 😳

My grandfather was born in Victoria's reign. He died a few years before I was born. My mum was part of his second family and the research we have done about his first family (and first wife) has been very interesting.

I'm mid 40s and my granparents were born in 1899, 1906, 1907 and 1912. My favourite grandad, born in 1906, had a very Victorian upbringing and outlook on life. I do wonder how he'd view the world now. His brother emigrated to Aus in the 1920s and they only saw each other a couple more times in their lifetimes. The used to record conversations on tape and send them by post to each other. They would be amazed with things like Facetime and Skype now!