List of people with the longest marriages
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[edit] Highest combined age of married couples
- Leonardus Arnoldus Marie Koppert (30 January 1885 - 17 November 1990) and Marie Cornelie de Chauvigny de Blot (27 October 1890 - 8 January 1998) from the Netherlands. 212 years and 364 days. [1]
- Thomas (4 May 1786 – 29 January 1893) and Elizabeth Morgan (17 January 1786 – 19 January 1891) from Wales, married 4 May 1809. 211 years and 271 days. [2]
- Leopold Vietoris (4 June 1891 - 9 April 2002) and Maria Josefa Vincentia Vietoris, born Riccabona von Reichenfels (18 July 1901 - 24 March 2002) from Austria, married 17 December 1936. 211 years and 193 days. [3]
- Jacobus Cornelis Verbruggen (22 January 1895 - 20 May 1998) and Egberta Maria Giesen (23 October 1890 - 6 February 1998) from Mill (Noord-Brabant) in the Netherlands: 210 years and 224 days
- Karl (31 August 1897 - 31 July 2004) and Gudrun Dølven (14 October 1900 - 24 April 2004) from Norway. 210 years and 151 days. [4]
- Liu Yung-yang (1900-2003) and Yang Wan (1899-?) from Taiwan. 210+ years [5]
- André Debry (15 June 1898 - 31 August 2005) and Marguerite Pingaud (born 10 October 1904) from France, married 12 August 1924. 209+ years. [6]
[edit] >80 years
- Temulji Nairman. Married at the age of five in 1853. The marriage lasted for 86 years. [7]
- Liu Yung-yang (1900-2003) and Yang Wan (1899-?) from Taoyuan in northern Taiwan, married in April 1917. The marriage lasted 86 years and 3 months. [8]
- Gan and Huang Fu, married for 83 years as of 2006. From a village in Guangzhou, China. They married when he was 21 and she was 17. [9]
- John (born Giovanni) Rocchio (24 November 1903 - 28 August 2006) and Amelia Antonelli (10 October 1905 - 6 June 2006) from North Providence, Rhode Island, married 10 February 1923. 82 years and 116 days. [10][11]
- James and Sarah Ann Burgess from Great Britain were married for 82 years. [12]
- Michael Nikolaus (7 January 1901 - 29 January 2007) and Katharina Nikolaus (1907 - 19 December 2005) from Germany, married 26 December 1924. 81 years and 358 days. [13][14][15]
- Orbin Jack Hoffer (28 September 1898 - 29 November 2002) and Dorothy Stahly (26 October 1902 - 11 November 2007) of Indiana, married 14 February 1921. 81 years and 288 days. [16][17]
- Thomas Morgan (4 May 1786 – 29 January 1893) and Elizabeth Morgan (17 January 1786 – 19 January 1891), married 4 May 1809. 81 years and 260 days. [18]
- Martin (18 August 1900 - 11 August 2005) and Christina Terry (born in 1908 or 1909) of South Carolina, married 7 February 1924. 81 years and 185 days. [19]
- Gilbert Hill (1899 or 1900-?) and Sadie E. Longmoor (10 October 1899 - 15 July 2001) from Florida, married 15 June 1920. 81 years and 30 days. [20][21]
- André Debry (15 June 1898 - 31 August 2005) and Marguerite Pingaud (born 10 October 1904) from France were married on 12 August 1924 and celebrated their 81st wedding anniversary in August 2005 shortly before his death, according to Le Monde. 81 years and 19 days. [22][23]
- Robert D. "Grandpa" Fitch, Sr. (26 January 1895 - 23 November 1999) and Florence L. Fitch (10 August 1898 - 14 May 1995) from Pennsylvania, married 5 December 1914. 80 years and 160 days. [24]
- Bert and Martha Parr of Berne, Indiana were married for 80 years as of 8 September 2006. [25]
- Percy Arrowsmith and Florence Arrowsmith from Hereford, England were married for 80 years. Percy died on 15 June 2005 at the age of 105, just two weeks after celebrating 80 years of marriage with his wife. [26][27]
- Claude Stanley (born on 3 March 1901) and Ethel Choules (1908? - 2006) from Australia were married for 80 years. [28]
- E.R. (10 August 1902 - 22 June 2005) and Bessie Pennebaker (born in 1907 or 1908) from Iowa, married 14 June 1924. 81 years and 8 days. [29][30]
[edit] Web sources
- ^ http://www.kuijsten.de/ar/2002/ar-225.html
- ^ http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records/human_body/age_and_youth/oldest_married_couple_aggregate_age.aspx
- ^ http://www.innsbruck.at/io30/download/Dokumente/Content/Medienservice/Innsbruck%20Informiert/Jahr%202002/BEILAGE_MAI_0.PDF?disposition=inline
- ^ http://esop.forumsplace.com/message13.html
- ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2398463.stm
- ^ http://www.lanacion.com.ar/Archivo/nota.asp?nota_id=748462
- ^ http://www.tiscali.co.uk/events/weddings/features/after/did_you_know.html
- ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2398463.stm
- ^ http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/07/18/1058035207183.html
- ^ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8405716/
- ^ http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oudste_mens#Oudste_echtparen
- ^ http://www.tiscali.co.uk/events/weddings/features/after/did_you_know.html
- ^ http://www.siebenbuerger.de/sbz/sbz/news/1120550804,71339,.html
- ^ http://www.siebenbuerger.de/sbz/sbz/news/1138351198,49864,.html
- ^ http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oudste_mens#Oudste_echtparen
- ^ http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2002/SRESP/SR0008.html
- ^ http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oudste_mens#Oudste_echtparen
- ^ http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records/human_body/age_and_youth/oldest_married_couple_aggregate_age.aspx
- ^ http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oudste_mens#Oudste_echtparen
- ^ http://www.ifilivetobe100.com/html/profiles/hill/index.htm
- ^ http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oudste_mens#Oudste_echtparen
- ^ http://www.lanacion.com.ar/Archivo/nota.asp?nota_id=748462
- ^ http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oudste_mens#Oudste_echtparen
- ^ http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oudste_mens#Oudste_echtparen
- ^ http://www.legacy.com/kentucky/Celebrations.asp?Page=Announcement&PersonID=19146466
- ^ http://marriage.about.com/b/a/178055.htm
- ^ http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oudste_mens#Oudste_echtparen
- ^ http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=77&ContentID=22565
- ^ http://www.conservativetruth.org/article.php?id=2337
- ^ http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oudste_mens#Oudste_echtparen
