1836 deaths: reporting many deaths of British folks aged 90+ years!

DEATHS

At Creech Range, near Wareham, Mr. Abbott, aged 100 years.

On Tuesday, the 8th inst., at Anderson's buildings, South Shields, aged 105, Mrs. Mary Mackey. She retained her faculties to the last.

On Wednesday, the 9th inst., aged 107, Mrs. Elizabeth Pawley, of Braunston-gate, Leicester. She was a native of Warwickshire, and had been a widow about seventeen years. She retained her faculties to the last in wonderful degree, and appeared to suffer comparatively little from the effects of her almost patriarchal age. Her sister died short time ago, between the age of 90 and 100 years.

On Friday, the 19th ult., at Frome, Thomas Golledge, aged 89. A brother who survives him is at present 91 years of age, his wife 86, and a sister the same age.

At Hawkchurch, aged 103, Mr. J. Moly. His memory was most tenaciouis, and he was fond of adverting to his having been in London at the time of the rebellion in 1745, and seen the trained bands reviewed by George II, and the troops marched out of the metropolis with the Duke of Cumberland.

Westmorland Gazette, Saturday, 26 March 1836, page 3