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I have come across family members who live well into 80 s or 90's
Would like to know if this unusual good health
Looking at a search i did for deaths between 1900 and 2005
For a first name and surname (exact spellings only )
ten out of the twenty three results lived to be over 70 !
Five octogenarians
seven deaths were aged 54 to 67
Only 1 child death and one teen death
The 27 year old who died was my great uncle who drowned in a vat 1910
1903 my ggfather died aged74
I haven't identified which death is my second cousin and which a g g uncle or other descendants with same name
The ones in different counties are probably unrelated
Statistically it seems a good record
I would expect there to be more child deaths in early 1900's.
Has anyone else done similar searches ?
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Not particularly but it could be down to a combination of diet, lifestyle, environment, occupation and genetics. Even now statistics suggest that the life expectancy in some areas of the country is less than in others. It's believed to be linked to poverty and diet.
I did find a mother & her daughter who were both centenarians when they died late in the last or this century. In their case it must have been a genetic predisposition.
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I did research on my OH's family.
At age 36yrs he was told that due to known family history, he was pre disposed to heart disease.
Paternal grandmother died from heart disease aged 49
Her daughter died from it aged just 21yrs.
Her son, OH's father, had a heart attack at age 46.
OH was just 40 when the inevitable happened ( He and his father both survived)
I researched OH's ancestry and found that it was a common theme in the
ancestry of his paternal grandmother ( the 49yr old)
The earliest definitive ancestral death from heart disease was OH's gg grandfather He died in 1870 aged 30yrs.
From this man's direct descendants, I have located at least 10 deaths relating to the disease and most were under 50yrs old.
I found 2 deaths last week, both were siblings and both were under 30.
(They were the only paternal cousins of the grandmother who died aged 49yrs)
My research indicates a probable mix of genetics and/or environment.
Although the eary deaths were from coal mining families, most of their descendants had other occupations
On the other side of the family:
OH's maternal family were Aberdeenshire farmers.
Have not located a single death from Heart Disease in this line and all except ONE direct ancestral grandparent lived beyond 70. One or two were over 90yrs.
The "one" died from ...typhoid.
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GL sorry predisposition to heart disease is bad
i did have a gg gdad who died of cardiac synopcope but aged 74 in 1903
his g son died in 1910 aged 48 my ggfather
it is worded as debilitation of the heart .
but his 12 children didnt seem to have problems living til 66-92
only 1 died in ww1
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I did a quick experiment on SP in search engine
family name Robertson had 2019 births between 1806-1826
and 475 deaths aged 80-110
For the Black familiy members
the number of births was 814
with 202 deaths of 80 year olds or over
Bloch s had 51 and 14 older deaths respectivly
Mcfralane 485 births to 84 late deaths
so most are about 4 times as many births as elderly deaths but the
Kyle name showed up 145 births last century with only 8 surnamed Kyles reaching an age of 80 or more
the deaths could be in any years from statuary death records
the births were to give me idea of frequency of that name
I wonder why so few "old" Kyles ..your theories welcome .....several emigrated so maybe did live long elsewhere .
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