The oldest and youngest person in your family

[Miss Chicken]

Currently the oldest member of my family that I know is my Uncle Bill who is 87. It is possible that some of Dad's cousins are older however but I don't really know them.

The youngest is my sister's grandson, Samuel, who was born last year (not sure of the exact date).

The oldest relative I have ever known of is a great-great grandmother who according to her death certificate. was 99 when she died. However we don't have a birth certifcate for her and we think (according to immigration records) she was more likely to have been about 96 when she died.

 

[RoJoHen]

Is it bad that I have no idea what the answer to either of these questions is? And I don't even have a very large family...

 

[Miss Chicken]

Now that I have thought about it some more I have remembered that my mother's eldest sister Jean is still alive and so is well into her 90s. I must have met her as a child when I visited my grandmother in Queensland when I was five but I can't say I can recall meeting her.

 

[Mark de Vries]

My grandmother would be the oldest at 96, and my nephew (my sister's son) the youngest at 1 month and 1 day. That's all on my mother's side of the family, which is the only side I know.

 

[Mutai Sho-Rin]

The oldest person in my immediate family is me - at 62. Since both The Lady Sho-Rin and I are only children, our younger daughter at 24 is the baby. If we go out to my aunts, uncles and cousins, I have one cousin who is three days older and the reigning queen of the family.

 

[Michael Chris]

Grandmother is 94, I think the youngest is maybe 5ish.

 

[Warp Coil]

The oldest person in my family is my grandmother, at 85. The youngest person in my family is me, at 27. My family isn't very big, and if my brother and I don't procreate, it'll just die off. I'm single and I've been that way for a long time, so the thought of me even having kids just seems unlikely. My brother simply shouldn't have kids!

 

[RJDiogenes]

Of the family I know, my Uncle Jim would be the oldest at 70. He has an Uncle Ed who is still living, in his 80s, but I don't really know him; I also don't know if there are other living relatives in that corner of the family who are older. The youngest that I know is my niece Marissa, who is nine. I have cousins who have children a bit younger, but, again, I don't know them personally. On my father's side, the oldest would be my father, who is 68.

When I was born, there were five living generations, from me to my great-great-grandmother, who was born in Sweden or Norway. She died, in her 90s, when I was a baby, but we have a picture of me, my grandmother, my great-grandmother and her all together.

 

[GodThingFormerly]

Oldest: My cousin Vladimir, who is 38.
Youngest: Me, at 37.

There isn't anybody else.

TGT

 

[trekkerguy]

Well oldest would be my Grandmother Weezie at 69.
Youngest I know of would be my youngest brother at 8.

 

[Iasius]

My grandparents have all been dead for quite some time, but there's a grandaunt who should be about 90 these days and my niece is 5 weeks old.

 

[Goji]

My cousin just had a baby last year, so she should be the youngest. As for the oldest, I really don't know. I believe one of my uncles is in his 70s. Until a couple of years ago it would clearly be my grandfather who lived to be 94.

 

[nevermore]

The eldest would be either my great-uncle Byron (father's side), who will turn 86 this year or my grandparents on my mother's parents who are somewhere around the same age. The youngest would be my cousin's kid who is something like 6 or 7. Other than her, the youngest would be about 18 by now, I guess. There may be others, but I don't really know my extended family on either side at all.

The oldest that I know of ever was my great-grandmother on my mother's father's side who died (in her own kitchen while making tamales for the "kids" at the old folks home) at 102.

 

[indranee]

I've a humongous family. but let's keep it within the first cousins etc. hmm... then it'd be my dad as the oldest (he's 81), and the newborn baby of one of my first cousins on my dad's side as the youngest.

 

[Mallory]

My mom at 70 is the oldest and my 16 year old son is the youngest.

 

[Markas]

The oldest is my aunt who is 88. The youngest is her great-grandchild who is 6 months.

The oldest ever that I know of was my father's maternal grandmother that died at 106.

 

[McCoy]

When my sister's oldest was born, we had a picture taken with the two them, our mother, her mother, and her mother. Five generations in one picture. I treasure it.

 

[Emher]

IIRC the oldest is my grandfather who is 84, and the youngest is my cousin Mila who is...7 I think.

 

[Daneel]

Keeping within the relatives that I see on a semi-regular basis (I'm sure I have some relatives that are older and younger, but I hardly ever see them and don't know much about them): my paternal grandmother is the oldest, at 84, and my cousin Nick is the youngest, at 4.

It's likely to stay that way for a while. I'm pretty sure all my aunts and uncles are through having children, so I suppose it'll be "the kids" (i.e. my sister, cousins, and myself) who will reproduce next. Being the oldest grandchild (on both sides), they might be expecting me to start first.

They're going to be waiting a loooooong time.

 

[Brent]

The oldest that I know if is my grandmother at 76, there might be some older, probably are, but I don't know them. The youngest is my niece who was born last August, so she is 6 months old.

Dead now, but we use to have someone in the family who lived upwards of 100, she was born in 1900 and died after 2000, I want to say maybe 103 or 104 years old, can't remember exactly but she was over 100 for sure.