Strange things you find when searching the newspapers on Find My Past.
February 13, 1770
DIED. At Birmingham, aged 121, Mr Farr, Tamworth Carrier, who had twenty-one children, nineteen of whom were married. He had in the whole, children, grand-children, and great grand children, to the amount of 144 ; but what is remarkable, he out-lived all his numerous posterity, and has left 10,000l. to charitable uses.
Thanks for sharing this. I do a lot of newspaper research and it is gems like this that sometimes take me down a rabbit hole. I end up doing several hours of research on the people mentioned. Even now, I really want to go find this gentleman's birth record. Living to age 121 seems so unlikely in this time period.
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