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She lived to 100, over 100 years ago

mikejee

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She had 52 grandchildren and 58 great grandchildren (though presumably a large number died very young). She nursed the Lord mayor at one time and remembered the coronation of George IV. A long and useful life. Yet some days before her death she was found without coal an dgiven some wood logs to help keep warm.
We do not have it too bad these days do we, whatever some say.

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AnnS said:
Interesting article about an interesting lady.
May 29th Oak Apple Day, never heard of that before...
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I had heard of it before but I wasn't sure what it was about....
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Oak Apple Day - Wikipedia

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This from the Wiki is interesting...

Events still take place at Upton-upon-Severn in Worcestershire, Marsh Gibbon in Buckinghamshire, Great Wishford in Wiltshire (when villagers gather wood in Grovely Wood), Aston-on-Clun in Shropshire and Membury in Devon. The day has been marked in the past by re-enactment activities at Moseley Old Hall, West Midlands, one of the houses where Charles II hid in 1651.
 
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