A woman who has seen three centuries


 This is Mrs. Elizabeth Hanbury, one of the only a few human beings from the 18th century to have lived in 3 centuries. 



She turned into born Elizabeth Sanderson at the ninth of June, 1793 at Devonshire House, Leadenhall Street, London. At the time of Elizabeth's start, each of her dad and mom have been 44. Her mother and father have been Quakers - John Sanderson (1749-1816) of Armthorpe, Yorkshire and Margaret Shillito (1748-1795) of Holborn, London. They married in Devonshire Square, London at the eighth of February, 1786. Elizabeth become most effective 19 months antique while her mom died at the thirty first of January, 1795. A document of Elizabeth's start become made on the parish of All Hallows-on-the-Wall. She changed into famous in her personal right, apart from being a extraordinary centenarian. Elizabeth married Cornelius Hanbury (1796-1869) in Bristol, Gloucestershire at the twenty first of November, 1826. In the subsequent years, that they'd 3 children, one son Cornelius, and  daughters; Charlotte and Elizabeth, who had been all born on Gracechurch Street, London. Throughout Elizabeth's lengthy life, she witnessed a lot English history. She became already 45-years vintage while Queen Victoria's coronation passed off in 1838. Elizabeth, having been the eldest difficulty of the Queen, died in Richmond at the thirty first of October, 1901, on the age of 108. She changed into nearly 26-years older than the Queen, she witnessed the Queen's complete 63-yr reign, and outlived her with the aid of using nine months. At the time of Elizabeth's death, she become the oldest individual withinside the United Kingdom, and one of the ultimate surviving humans from 18th century England.

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