Here is the list of all of the English centenarians born before 1800 I could verify, as of 16 September 2026.
Verification usually requires early, middle, and late life documentation.
Asterisks represent dates of baptism or burial, and pluses point out foreign births or deaths.
For consistency, all dates are in the Gregorian calendar.
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Amendments as of 16 September 2026
Blaze Driver actually died 22 July 1801; someone found his headstone.
Elizabeth Everheld to Elizabeth Evershed.
Margaret Snead was born after Ann Rose.
Catherine Spencer was baptized in 1797, not 1798.
Abraham Linnette (1764-1864)
Josiah Bold (1764-1866)
Matthew Greathead (1770-1871)
Hannah White (1782-1883)
Jane Apsley Darby (1788-1891)
Deborah Boyack (1788-1891)
Elizabeth Denkin (1790-1891)
Mary Denne (1792-1895)
Mary Taring (1792-1893)
Ann Jackson (1793-1895)
Ann Standing (1793-1895)
Elizabeth Ellen Way (1793-1895)
Jane Bulman (1795-1895)
Sarah Hipkin (1796-1897)
Mary Holmden (1796-1898)
Robert Churchyard (1796-1898)
Sarah Tuckerman (1798-1899)
Ann Aldridge (1712?-1817) due to absence of evidence expressly connecting documents from different stages of life.
Elizabeth Parker (1715?-1820) due to absence of evidence expressly connecting documents from different stages of life.
Elizabeth Stillaway (1717?-1821) due to parish register coverage being uncertain.
Mary Shields (1764?-1866) due to the absence of an entry in the 1861 census, which would have connected proof of death to the rest of the documentation.
Ann Auckland (c.1783-1857) soundly debunked, subsequently removed.
James Yeoman (1720-1822) of Trudoxhill, Somerset.
William Sneaton (1727-1828) of Aislaby, Yorkshire North Riding. [Lived in close proximity to Bartholomew Johnson (1710-1814), Francis Knaggs (1728-1828), and Lawrence Harris (1740-1840, died at least 99)]
Helen Holderness (1750-1853), of Drypool, Yorkshire East Riding.
Mary Axford (1744-1845), of Brockenhurst, Hampshire.
Richard Spalding (1741-1844) of Laxfield, Suffolk.
George Robinson (1750-1851), of West Auckland, Co Durham. [He and another George Robinson married in Auckland in 1780, but fortunately there were enough clues to tell their families apart; moreover, the baptism register had annotations for burials, which helped me to rule out a birth after 1750.]
Elizabeth Webb (1787-1888), of Birmingham, Warwickshire.
Sarah Izaby (1790-1891), of Strood, Kent.
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Here are the centenarian Napoleonic War veterans I found in my research:
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