TWINS AT NINETY-ONE
THE OLDEST IN ENGLAND. Two Lincolnshire twins, John an J William Cooper, of Haxey, celebrated their 91st. birthday recently. They are believed to be the oldest twin brothers in England. They arc members of a family of thirteen, and have always worked on the land. John Cooper, when interviewed, said that he had lived in his present home fo r fifty years, and except for a few years had been farming in Haxey all his life. “I have been in a '..rain,'’ he said, “but have ne/er travelled in a motor bus. If I had been a good scholar I would have been coir.ctbing better than a farmer —a lawyer, a par son, or something like that. 1 did not get much schooling as a lad. We bad to pay to go to school in those days, there was no free education.” William Cooper, who has lived in his present home for 40 years, said: “Lads did not get much schooling when we were boys; they had to go straight to work. I can remember threshing with a flail. There were no threshing machines in those days. Over 50 years ago I used to go into Doncaster Market twice a week with horse and cart; I should not know the place now.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 115, 18 May 1931, Page 11
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215TWINS AT NINETY-ONE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 115, 18 May 1931, Page 11
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