This week genealogy blogger Randy Seaver has invited followers to look at the lifespans of their second great grandparents.
The mission:
1) We each have 16 great-great grandparents. How did their birth and death years vary? How long were their lifespans?
2) For this week, please list your 16 great-great grandparents, their birth year, their death year, and their lifespan in years.
I maintain an ancestor table spreadsheet using the Ahnentafel numbering system of my own and my husband’s forebears. Sometimes it is very easy to get distracted by the breadth of the family tree. It is useful to look back at the main trunk.
Mine and my husband’s great great grandparents are the 3*great grandparents of my children. They are numbered 32 to 63 on the table
Name | Ahnentafel number | age at death | lived |
George Edward Young | 32 | 64 | 1826-1890 |
Caroline Clarke | 33 | 44 | 1835-1879 |
John Way | 34 | 76 | 1835-1911 |
Sarah Daw | 35 | 58 | 1837-1895 |
James Cross | 36 | 54 | 1828-1882 |
Ellen Murray | 37 | 64 | 1837-1901 |
John Plowright | 38 | 79 | 1831-1910 |
Margaret Smyth | 39 | 63 | 1834-1897 |
Sullivan | 40 | I do not know anything about the parents of Henry Sullivan | |
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John Morley | 42 | 65 | 1823-1888 |
Eliza Sinden | 43 | 85 | 1823-1908 |
Isaac Dawson | 44 | 42 | 1831-1872 |
Eliza Skerrit | 45 | 65 | 1834-1899 |
Francis Gilbart Edwards | 46 | 65 | 1848-1913 |
Caroline Ralph | 47 | 46 | 1850-1896 |
Philip Champion de Crespigny | 48 | 77 | 1850-1927 |
Annie Frances Chauncy | 49 | 25 | 1857-1883 |
Edward Walter Hughes | 50 | 68 | 1854-1922 |
Jeanie Hawkins | 51 | 79 | 1862-1941 |
James Francis Cudmore | 52 | 75 | 1837-1912 |
Margaret Budge | 53 | 67 | 1845-1912 |
Wentworth Cavenagh | 54 | 72 | 1822-1895 |
Ellen Jane Mainwaring | 55 | 75 | 1845-1920 |
August Bolz | 56 | 76 | 1840-1916 |
Wilhelmine Bamberg | 57 | 82 | 1844-1926 |
Karl Bertz | 58 | 78 | 1854-1932 |
Henrietta Ritter | 59 | 80 | 1862-1942 |
Mathias Manogg | 60 | 74 | 1851-1925 |
Agathe Maria Lang | 61 | 74 | 1852-1926 |
Gustav [Alfons] Waldemar Karl Peters | 62 | 44 | 1860-1904 |
Agnes Helene Louise Stern | 63 | 57 | 1861-1918 |
The average lifespan is 65.8. The median, middle of the range, is 67 to 68. The average lifespan for men was 67.3 (median 68) and for women was 64.3 (median 64).
My great great grandmother Annie Frances Champion de Crespigny née Chauncy (1857-1883) died at the age of 25 of pelvic cellulitis after a 3week illness.
Greg’s great great grandmother Eliza Morley née Sinden (1823-1908) was 85 when she died of asthenia (weakness) and cancer of the pharynx after an illness of 10 week.
This generation was born between 1822 and 1862. The most recent death of this generation of our family was 1942: my great great grandmother Henrietta Bertz née Ritter (1862-1942).
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My mother with her great grandmother Henrietta Bertz née Ritter Easter 1941 |