When was your grandfather born?

Mon 11 Aug, 06:27 (last edited on Mon 11 Aug, 06:28)

I probably can't beat or even match this (Catholic birth records in Ireland are very patchy) but it looks as if my maternal  great-grandfather, Michael Higgins, who I was ceertainly named after, was born in 1815. 

It's also possible he was actually my gg-grandfather, and died more or less during the Famine when Catholic records got very, very, patchy. So even though my Michael Higgins can't claim a UK or British Isles record, he's probably left me with some kind of Charlbury record.

And one of the few things we'd all agree on is that, of all the records anyone can have, none can be finer than the Charlbury kind. 

Sun 10 Aug, 20:21

Taking a service in a nearby village church recently, I met a man whose grandfather was born in 1810!  Can anyone (in Charlbury, or the country, or even the world) beat this?

I suggested that he have a(nother) child himself soon to keep the record going, but his wife (like him, in her nineties) didn't think that was such a good idea.