Things to be remembered in daily life : with personal experiences and recollections / by John Timbs.
- John Timbs
- Date:
- 1863
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Things to be remembered in daily life : with personal experiences and recollections / by John Timbs. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![of Magdalen, who died in his 100th year. There are gene- rally veiy old people living in Oxford; and at Iffley the ages recorded in the churchyard commonly exceed 70. Midhurst, in Sussex, must be a healthy locality; for, according to the Dublin Chronicle, December 2, 1788, the town, then containing only ].40 houses and cottages, had seventy-eight inhabitants whose ages were above 70; thirty- two were 80 and upwards; and five were between 90 and 100; and the seventy-eight persons, except four, were in some business or occupation. Wye, near Ashford, Kent, is another noted locality for long life; the ages of 70, 80, and even 90, being by no means rare in the parish register. In 1800 twenty-two men died in England and Wales who had reached or passed the age of 100, and forty-seven women. The oldest woman, 111 years of age, died in Gla- morganshire. With the men there was a tie : a man aged 107 died in Hampshire, and another of the same age in Pembrokeshire. Four of the centenarians died in London, two others at Camberwell, one also at Greenwich, and one at Lewisham. More men died in the year than wo- men; but of the 595 persons who had reached the age of 95 or upwards before they died, nearly two-thirds were women. Great longevity is attained in some of the murky streets, lanes, and alleys of London. In 1767 died Widow Prossen, of Oxford-road, in her 102d year, having passed nearly her whole life among old clothes in a pawnbroker's shop, accu- mulating a large fortune. In the same year died her neigh- bour, Benjamin Perryn, aged 103. In 1767 also we find Widow Waters, of Saffron-hill, dying at the age of 108; and one Wood, of Markam-court, Chandos-street, at 100. In 1846 there died in grimy Holy well-street, Strand, one Harris, a Jew clothesman, who had lived in the same street more than seventy years: his wife died a few years before him, at the age of 93; and his eldest son was 73 at the time of his father's death. In 1780 there died in St. Martin's workhouse Widow Pettit, aged 114; and next year, Widow Parker, of White-Hart-yard, Drury-lane, aged 108, with all her faculties unimpaired.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21081244_0113.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
