Nemnich
speaks of Thomas Newman living in Bridlington at one hundred and
fifty-three years. Nemnich is confirmed in his account of Thomas
Newman by his tombstone in Yorkshire, dated 1542.
In the chancel of the Honington Church, Wiltshire, is a black
marble monument to the memory of G. Stanley, gent., who died in
1719, aged one hundred and fifty-one.
There was a Dane named Draakenburg, born in 1623, who until his
ninety-first year served as a seaman in the royal navy, and had
spent fifteen years of his life in Turkey as a slave in the
greatest misery. He was married at one hundred and ten to a woman
of sixty, but outlived her a long time, in his one hundred and
thirtieth year he again fell in love with a young country girl,
who, as may well be supposed, rejected him. He died in 1772 in
his one hundred and forty-sixth year. Jean Effingham died in
Cornwall in 1757 in his one hundred and forty-fourth year. He was
born in the reign of James I and was a soldier at the battle of
Hochstadt; he never drank strong liquors and rarely ate meat;
eight days before his death he walked three miles.
Bridget Devine, the well-known inhabitant of Olean Street,
Manchester died at the age of one hundred and forty-seven in
1845.
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