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My Great Grandmother died aged 104 when I was around 8 years old. I remember going to her 100th birthday party, all of the family were there as well as the TV crew from Look North!!

Julia

My 58 year old neighbour is about to become a great-grandmother.Her grandfather died not so many years ago and his sister still lives nearby.

I can remember their mother.That is seven generations.

Seven generations of my family goes back to the late eighteenth century.

I can remember my Great Gran with affection though she was a strange old soul, who died after her son my Grandad who was 59 when he died,
She used to come and see my Gran, her daughter in law after And bring her own sandwiches which I thought strange!
Funnily enough I didnt find this out till after I was married to my ex wife that her Grandmother was best friends with my great grandmother though my wife and her family were from 15 miles away, Its true because I have seen a picture of Marilyns Gran and my Great Gran together.
Davexx

ps My Mum as got 12 Great Grandchildren! The eldest being my eldest Grandson Liam who is 21!

Brenda,
Although my grand daughter (now aged 7) obviously doesn't remember her gg grandmother, she sees the picture and asks about her. I have pictures of her g g grandmother when she was a child and my grand daughter is getting a pretty good 'mind picture' of her.
One of my doll's houses is also Edwardian based - and although rather posher than the house my gran grew up in, has many of the things in it grans childhood house had.

I remember my Dad going to his gran's funeral when I was about ten, although I never met her.

I am now 60,and expecting my first gt grand daughter, my ambition is to live to see her grandchildren, which, given the family history of long-livers, it is possible.

I have both my parents alive dad age 87 mum 82 and I have made sure that I have a picture of my great grandson with them , we are 5 direct geneations but I do have a generation further as my mothers aunt is alive and on my dads side his mothers cousin is still alive both in there 90's, dont think we can count that as 6 generations.


Pam

I don't remember my Gt granny but I have a wonderful picture of my mum and granny standing behind her, she was sat in a chair and had me on her knee, I was around 4 months old, sadly Granny Jane died when I was 6 months old, but I will always treasure that photo.Mum and Dad remember their grandparents really well and have brought their pics to life for me through little stories, I feel like I did know them because of that
Carol xx

Maggie,I also have a photo of my eldest g.granddaughter sitting on my mother's lap and all 5 generations...female I might add... which is quite something.My mother was born when my gran was 28 and I was born when my mum was 23.I had my daughter when I was 23.My granddaughter was born when my daughter was 25,and my granddaughter's eldest born when she was 21.
wouldn't it be lovely to have had such a relationship further back than our grandparents.
Last year when my son came over from Oz with his 2 children...10 and 8,they were playing with the 3 g.granddaughters.Who was the one catering for all their needs...and playing on the grass with them....not their parents...but grandma/g.grandma.All of the stories you have told about the g.grans that you remember are REALLY OLD,sitting in chairs being looked after.How times have changed!

Brenda x

I only knew my grandmothers, but my daughters both knew their great grandmother (my mum's mum), and my grand daughter knows of her great grandmother (my mum), but as she lives in Portugal, visits are rare. We also have a lovely photo of my grand daughter sitting on my gran's lap (that's her great great grandmother) when gran was 98 and grand daughter was about 9 months old. Gran died aged 99.

We didn't even have children at a particularly young age - gran was 26 when she had mum, mum was 26 when she had me, I was 24 when I had my daughter,
daughter was 22 when she had her daughter.

I just remember before the war, being taken to see my fathers grandmother. She kept a sweets and tobacconist shop, but Mum wouldnt let us eat the sweets which were not wrapped, as she said there were mice everywhere in that house!

My mother, who died in May 2008, said I met my great grandmother, although I can't remember her.
My mother, b 1909, could remember her great grandmother, b 1837, looking after her one evening during WW1
Liz

I only had my Paternal Grandmother and her Mother, my Gt. Gran died 1940 when I was seven. I remember her as a small Irish lady with snow white curly hair. We, my late Brother and I ,were taken to visit her and I remember playing under her table which was covered with a chenile table cloth. I have a black and white snap of both of them taken at my parents wedding. My Gran passed over in 1961 and my Dad followed in November the same year aged 52, Gran was 79. Our Daughter knew both sets of grand parents but our son just knew my Mother, his Nana. Our Grand daughter, now 32 has known both sets of Grand parents and her daughter, our gt. Grand daughter seven knew her paternal Grandfather who passed over two years ago and sees her paternal Grandmother regularly, and lives next door to her maternal grandparents and sees us, her maternal gt. grandparents about once a week.

Interesting reading!...and Jill you're not on your own.I didn't know my g.grandparents,although I knew both sets of grandparents...well one was a step grandfather as my gran's 1st husband died aged 28.
I think it was rare in those days to know the "greats".My maternal gran's mother was born in `1849.she is the one I would have liked to have known as my gran was always talking about her.she had 13 children so I had a lot of great aunts and uncles,of which I knew quite a few as it was the habit when I was young(in the 40's)to visit them.

Brenda x

I am feeling left out and slightly jealous and a bit of an "orphan" by this thread.

All of my gr grandparents were born between 1840 and 1867. They died between 1878 and the 1930's. I wasn't born until 1957!

I do remember both my grandmothers. But my grandfathers died in 1922 and 1945 so no chance of remembering any of them!!

Boo hoo.

Jill

isnt it funny dawnie
you think of those no longer with us like that

i think of our mam, she would of adored my grandaughter , as my daughter is the only grandaughter , theres 3 grandsons,
and dad is great with them all,
and baby g grandaughter,
shes such a cutie,
and says i funny i am,
mum would of been in stitches at her cos shes such a little welsh girly too

thinking about this my children had 2 gt grannies, Steves gran died in 2003 at the ripe old age of 100 and i have a newspaper clipping of her with her grandchildren (3) and Gt Grandchildren (7) so is something to remember her by.

My children would of been 11, 7 and 11 months when she died.

My Nan died in September so they would of been 16, 12 and 5.

Unfortunately they only have 2 grandparents now and thats my parents, tidler never knew hubbies parents which is a shame she would of had them in stitches.

We only had the two Grandmothers alive when I was a kiddy. My maternal Gran was a lovely cuddly nan who you could talk to about anything . She died in 1958 just two weeks before our daughter was born. By that time she was living with Mum & Dad and i used to visit every afternoon ,after stopping at the bakers on the way ,and sit having afternoon tea& cakes and she would tell me lots of family tales, wish I had the forethought to write some of them down.
The other Gran was an austere Lady !! who paid a State visit every 3 years or so and it took all her effort to mumble when you said "Hello Grandma" Her maxim was children should be seen and not heard. She died in the 1960.s
All the Grt Grandparents died before 1920.

I didn't know any of my G Grandparents, but I did know my OH great grandma Her name was Ethel , my OH called her Ninnie, seemingly all the generations before us called her that to. she died in 1982 two years after my first daughter was born, that would make her my daughters G.G. Grandma,I'm glad she met my daughter. my first grandchild is due at the end of august and she/he will have 1 G. Grandmother (OH Mother )and 1 G.Grandfather (my dad).

remeber my gt gran never heard her talk as she had a stroke year i was born couldnt understand her but sister could.

When we went to stay with nan for a week in summer she used to take us over to see gt gran who lived with my gt aunt who looked after her.

remember sittingon rug in back garden drinking lemonade and gt gran gave us a bar of dairy milk with a 50p attached to it.

I remember a gt. grandmother, on my mother's side. I saw her in about 1952/3, but died sometime in the next 12 months. I know this because at the time we lived in Scotland, and I had come down to stay with an aunt. When we moved back to here in 1954, I can't remeber her being around, though there is a photo taken with her, up at me dads. I thought I had met the Gt. Grandfather on my mother's other side, but recently a second cousin a few times removed, seems to have dispelled this myth, though I am not entirely convinced.
On my father's side, I cannot remember any Gt. Grandparents, but I can remember some Gt. Aunts up until I was about 11/12.
I am now a Gt. Gran myself, but have not met any of the Gt. Grandchildren as yet, because they live away.
Julia in Derbyshire