The ages of an English family of 10 brothers and sisters total 817 years 10 months, the oldest being 94 years and the youngest 70. Another brother died last year wherf he was 90. The family came from Homing, Norfolk, and the father was a blacksmith, who died at the age of 57. One of the sisters said she attributed the advanced ages of the family to the fact that “in my home we baked our own bread made our. own butter, brewed our own beer, and killed our own cattle for meat.”
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21812, 18 June 1936, Page 16
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