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Have located three articles on Catherine Holman (1864-1974) from The Durham Sun. Note that they spell her name Katherine.

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/791440281/

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/786722432/

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/786858321/

These articles also provide pictures of her, something that as far as I know we didn't have before.

If anyone could clip the articles on both Voelkel and Holman, it'd be greatly appreciated.

Posted by: @sailor-haumea

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Lastly, an article in The Hartford Courant about the home of Annie Keeney (1875-1985) burning down when she was 102: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/368158065/

110 Club member Oscar found a picture for Agatha Mitchell (USA, 1887-2001).

Source.

Some more articles:

Mabelle Bauman (1889-2000)'s 110th birthday: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/892812406/

Mabelle Bauman (1889-2000)'s obituary: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/892920905/

Mabel Roads (1881-1992) mentioned at 110: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/903648915/

Mabel Roads (1881-1992)'s obituary: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/903629872/

Anyone mind clipping these?

@sailor-haumea Mabelle Bauman:

@sailor-haumea Mabel Roads:

Alice Ducat (1905-2017) aged 90, from the 1 Feb 1996 edition of the Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald

Eva Morris (1885-2000) on her 113th birthday:

Source: Staffordshire Newsletter, 12 November 1998.

Posted by: @robbie

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Alice Ducat (1905-2017) aged 90, from the 1 Feb 1996 edition of the Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald

😀 😀 😀 !!!

Are you using the BNA?

There might be a picture of Margaret Ann Neve holding a telephone on there.

Gertrude Phillipson (UK, 1878-1988) : Manchester Evening News, 23 Mar 1988.

Amy Carpenter (UK, 1887-1997) : Western Daily Press, 8 Jan 1997.

Winifred Pettit (UK, 1887-1998) : The Woking Informer, 18 Nov 1994.

Elinor S. (Hall) Miller (USA, 1878-1989).

The Kansas City Times - 10 Mau 1989.

Hilda Bonniwell (UK, 1897-2007) :

- Herne Bay Times, 22 May 1997

- Whitstable Times, 27 May 1999

FINALLY!

Lilias Williams (UK, 1868 - 1979) :

- Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 8 June 1972.

- Manchester Evening News, 8 June 1972.

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FINALLY!

 

Lilias Williams (UK, 1868 - 1979) :

- Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 8 June 1972.

- Manchester Evening News, 8 June 1972.

Attachment : Huddersfield Daily Examiner - 8 June 1972.png

Attachment : Manchester Evening News - 8 June 1972.png

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/9ab646f0f2614321b4666ce62225c95c

The episode might be out there somewhere.

I think we (ESO) have already contacted the BBC before, but they were unwilling to help us out. (Don't remember exactly though, might be wrong.)

Stella Correll (AUS, 1888-2000), picture from her Ancestry profile (aged 101).

Grace Robertson (CAN, 1876-1986) - The Province, 23 Mar 1986

Eli Lindsay (1857-1968), UK/Canada, 1960:

Johanne Wilks (GER, 1893-2003) - "Die Ältesten Deutschen - Mit Hundert War Ich Noch Jung", © Harald Wenzel-Orf

Nellie Morgan (UK, 1867-1978). Sevenoaks Chronicle, 12 Feb 1977.

Franziska Maier (CZE/GER, 1898-2008). Source.

Papstbild und Rosenkranz

Bischof gratuliert der ältesten Bürgerin des Landes

Bischof Gerhard Feige gratuliert Frau Franziska Maier. Die älteste Bürgerin des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt feierte am 23. April in Oschersleben ihren 109. Geburtstag. Den Rosenkranz und das signierte Foto von Papst Benedikt XVI. wollte die immer noch aktive Katholikin nicht mehr aus der Hand geben. Frau Maier, die seit mehr als 20 Jahren im katholischen Altenpflegeheim "Kardinal-Jaeger-Haus" in Oschersleben zu Hause ist, musste 1945 aus ihrer Heimat dem Sudetenland fliehen und lebt seit dem in Oschersleben. Die Jubilarin hat eine Tochter, zwei Enkel und einen Urenkel.

Lillie Lindberg (USA, 1899-2009) : The Edgar Sun, 13 June 1968 - front row, on the left.

Does anyone know where this photo of Annie Jennings came from? 

I can find evidence of it being online at least as early as 2009, I'm assuming therefore it might originally have been posted on the old Yahoo forum... which can no longer be accessed. It looks to me like it's from a newspaper article although I've never been able to rediscover it. 

I was also wondering if we had any information that concretely identifies this person as Annie Jennings at all? The photo doesn't have a caption alongside it or anything, and I've always thought that the person in the photo had a striking resemblance to Annie Scott:

Perhaps I'm just looking too much into this, but I'd like to know if anyone else has any thoughts or information that could clear up the matter?

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Does anyone know where this photo of Annie Jennings came from? 

-- attachment is not available --

I can find evidence of it being online at least as early as 2009, I'm assuming therefore it might originally have been posted on the old Yahoo forum... which can no longer be accessed. It looks to me like it's from a newspaper article although I've never been able to rediscover it. 

I was also wondering if we had any information that concretely identifies this person as Annie Jennings at all? The photo doesn't have a caption alongside it or anything, and I've always thought that the person in the photo had a striking resemblance to Annie Scott:

-- attachment is not available --

Perhaps I'm just looking too much into this, but I'd like to know if anyone else has any thoughts or information that could clear up the matter?

 

In addition to the facial features and glasses being the same, both also have a very receded hairline and a fully closed right eye, so this definitely looks like the same person. 

Considering how reclusive Annie Jennings was known to be, it doesn't surprise me too much that no photos of her seem to exist online. 

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Posted by: @robbie

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Does anyone know where this photo of Annie Jennings came from? 

-- attachment is not available --

I can find evidence of it being online at least as early as 2009, I'm assuming therefore it might originally have been posted on the old Yahoo forum... which can no longer be accessed. It looks to me like it's from a newspaper article although I've never been able to rediscover it. 

I was also wondering if we had any information that concretely identifies this person as Annie Jennings at all? The photo doesn't have a caption alongside it or anything, and I've always thought that the person in the photo had a striking resemblance to Annie Scott:

-- attachment is not available --

Perhaps I'm just looking too much into this, but I'd like to know if anyone else has any thoughts or information that could clear up the matter?

 

In addition to the facial features and glasses being the same, both also have a very receded hairline and a fully closed right eye, so this definitely looks like the same person. 

-- attachment is not available --

Considering how reclusive Annie Jennings was known to be, it doesn't surprise me too much that no photos of her seem to exist online. 

 

 

 

There's a few newspapers from Derbyshire online from the 1980s and 1990s and she isn't mentioned in any. The first mention of her I can find in any newspaper is in January 1998, shortly after the death of Lucy Askew. 

The fact that she was recognised publicly at all for her age while alive is a little concerning, to be honest. From what I've read online she seemed to be in incredible health for being one of the world's oldest people as she still lived in her own home until her death and was still able to speak on the phone and do the Daily Telegraph crossword at 114. She was also described as looking about 80. From what I can gather, she maintained anonymity up until becoming the oldest person in the UK, at which point someone passed on information about her to Guinness without her consent, which infuriated her. Unfortunately this led to sort of a Streisand effect as the tabloids were more open to mentioning her given that her story had a 'hook' - she didn't want to be in Guinness. 

(from the Worksop, Gainsborough and Retford Times, 9 Dec 1999)

@robbie If she was involved with the church and was the wife of a vicar, perhaps further search strategies should focus on her husband. Or "Nancy".

Louise Gibson (CAN/USA, 1883-1995) : The Daily Item, 7 Aug 1991; 6 Aug 1994; and 4 Jan 1995. (There are more articles available for those interested.)

Bettie Bookout (USA, 1870-1981) : Waco Tribune-Herald, 7 Aug 1978; 4 Aug 1980; and 18 Feb 1981.

Margaret Grundman (USA, 1877-1989) : The Daily Progress, 9 Apr 1987 & 2 Feb 1989