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List of Australian supercentenarians

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This is an incomplete list of Australian supercentenarians, people from Australia who have attained an age of at least 110 years. The Gerontology Research Group (GRG), an organization that tracks supercentenarians and verifies age claims, has verified that 26 supercentenarians have come from Australia as of December 2014.[1] The oldest person ever from Australia was Christina Cock, who died in 2002, aged 114 years, 148 days. The oldest man ever from Australia was Jack Lockett, who also died in 2002, aged 111 years, 123 days.

Oldest Australian people ever[edit]

  Deceased   Living
^ denotes age at death, or, if living, age as of 19 March 2024

Rank Name Sex Birth date Death date Age State[lower-alpha 1] or country of birth State of death
1 Christina Cock[2] F 25 December 1887 22 May 2002 114 years, 148 days Victoria Victoria
2 Beatrice Mears[2] F 4 March 1888 3 December 2001 113 years, 274 days South Australia South Australia
3 Ethel Farrell[1] F 27 November 1902 20 December 2015 113 years, 23 days India[lower-alpha 2] Victoria
4 Molly Yeomans[2] F 1 July 1888 30 May 2001 112 years, 333 days New South Wales New South Wales
5 Caroline Mockridge[2] F 11 December 1874 6 November 1987 112 years, 330 days Victoria Victoria
6 Myra Nicholson[3] F 14 December 1894 20 September 2007 112 years, 280 days Victoria Victoria
7 Vi Robbins[1] F 28 February 1902 8 October 2014 112 years, 222 days New South Wales New South Wales
8 E. Beatrice Riley[4] F 13 October 1896 15 May 2009 112 years, 214 days Victoria Victoria
9 Margaret Vivian[5] F 25 February 1906 20 September 2018 112 years, 207 days Scotland Western Australia
10 Jane Gray[1] F 1 December 1901 7 June 2014 112 years, 188 days Scotland New South Wales
11 Jessie Hurley[2] F 15 June 1890 6 August 2002 112 years, 52 days New South Wales New South Wales
12 Miriam Schmierer[6] F 20 August 1899 29 September 2011 112 years, 40 days Queensland Queensland
13 Myrtle Jones[4] F 18 April 1897 12 January 2009 111 years, 269 days Victoria South Australia
14 Stella Correll[2] F 23 December 1888 7 September 2000 111 years, 259 days South Australia South Australia
15 Jane Piercy[2] F 2 September 1869 3 May 1981 111 years, 243 days New South Wales New South Wales
Marjorie Cooke[7] F 5 January 1906 1 September 2017 111 years, 239 days Victoria Victoria
Thelma McLeod[8] F 13 February 1907 19 July 2018 111 years, 156 days Western Australia Western Australia
16 Jack Lockett[2] M 22 January 1891 25 May 2002 111 years, 123 days Victoria Victoria
17 Eva McConnell[9] F 5 May 1901 15 August 2012 111 years, 102 days New South Wales New South Wales
18 Alice Lindsay[1] F 31 March 1893 1 July 2004 111 years, 92 days Victoria South Australia
Mary Whitehurst[10] F 20 October 1905 2 January 2017 111 years, 74 days Wales Victoria
19 Ada Cleggett[2] F 27 January 1885 8 December 1995 110 years, 315 days South Australia South Australia
20 Doreen Washington[4] F 24 May 1898 4 February 2009 110 years, 256 days Queensland New South Wales
Helen Stamelos[11] F 30 November 1906 7 August 2017 110 years, 250 days Greece Western Australia
21 Marie Piacentino[2] F 25 November 1888 21 June 1999 110 years, 208 days Italy New South Wales
22 Mary Hurley[2] F 4 May 1880 16 November 1990 110 years, 196 days New South Wales New South Wales
23 Catherine Lawrence[1] F 8 December 1902 16 June 2013 110 years, 190 days Victoria New South Wales
Evelyn Vigor[1] F 9 January 1906 26 April 2016 110 years, 108 days Queensland Queensland
Jean McCarthy[12] F 4 May 1908 12 August 2018 110 years, 100 days Victoria Victoria
24 John Campbell Ross[4] M 11 March 1899 3 June 2009 110 years, 84 days Victoria Victoria
25 Blanche Coward[1] F 17 December 1901 27 February 2012 110 years, 72 days England New South Wales
26 Claude Choules[6] M 3 March 1901 5 May 2011 110 years, 63 days England Western Australia
Phyllis Lee [13] F 3 November 1907 20 December 2017 110 years, 47 days England Queensland
27 Ada Sharp[2] F 6 April 1861 15 May 1971 110 years, 39 days Victoria Western Australia
Avis Sheedy[14] F 25 May 1908 25 June 2018 110 years, 31 days New South Wales New South Wales
Wilhelmina Overall[15] F 6 October 1908 21 October 2018[16] 110 years, 15 days New South Wales New South Wales

Notes[edit]

  1. People born prior to 1 January 1901 were born in the corresponding colony. The "states" did not exist before the Federation of Australia.
  2. Farrell was born in India, which was at the time of her birth a British colony.

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 "Validated Living Supercentenarians". Gerontology Research Group (GRG). November 21, 2014. Archived from the original on 24 February 2001. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  2. 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 GRG Verified Supercentenarian Cases -- Listed Chronologically by Death Date as of 28 April 2007 Retrieved 12 May 2011.
  3. GRG Deaths for 2007 (in Chronological Order) (As of 4 February 2011) Retrieved 12 May 2011.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 GRG Deaths for 2009 (in Chronological Order) (as of 24 December 2010) Retrieved 12 May 2011.
  5. "Validated Living Supercentenarians". grg.org. Gerontology Research Group. 22 April 2018. Retrieved 26 April 2018. The Gerontology Research Group(GRG) lists people as living whose age has been validated and confirmed to be alive within the past year.
  6. 6.0 6.1 GRG Deaths in 2011
  7. Marjorie Cooke, Australia’s oldest living person, dies at 111
  8. https://www.pressreader.com/australia/the-west-australian/20170214/281651074858194
  9. GRG Deaths in 2012
  10. Australia’s oldest person, Mary Whitehurst, dies aged 111
  11. Helen Stamelos Orbituary
  12. https://amp.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/melbourne-greatgrandmother-jean-mccarthy-celebrates-110-years-rich-in-history/news-story/e6db51525a346379bde9d8a613eea437
  13. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-20/oldest-queenslander-phyllis-lee-dies/9275488
  14. http://celebrations.armidaleexpress.com.au/celebration/armidaleexpress-au/celebrations-announcement.aspx?n=avis-sheedy&aid=189096899
  15. https://media.bupa.com.au/wilhelmina-celebrates-her-110th-birthday-in-style/
  16. https://mcguinessfunerals.com.au/overall-wilhelmina-elizabeth/


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