List of Australian supercentenarians
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[update].[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 22 November 2024
Rank | Name | Sex | Birth date | Death date | Age | State[lower-alpha 1] or country of birth | State of death |
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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]
- ↑ People born prior to 1 January 1901 were born in the corresponding colony. The "states" did not exist before the Federation of Australia.
- ↑ Farrell was born in India, which was at the time of her birth a British colony.
References[edit]
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 2.00 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.
- ↑ GRG Deaths for 2007 (in Chronological Order) (As of 4 February 2011) Retrieved 12 May 2011.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 GRG Deaths for 2009 (in Chronological Order) (as of 24 December 2010) Retrieved 12 May 2011.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 GRG Deaths in 2011
- ↑ Marjorie Cooke, Australia’s oldest living person, dies at 111
- ↑ https://www.pressreader.com/australia/the-west-australian/20170214/281651074858194
- ↑ GRG Deaths in 2012
- ↑ Australia’s oldest person, Mary Whitehurst, dies aged 111
- ↑ Helen Stamelos Orbituary
- ↑ https://amp.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/melbourne-greatgrandmother-jean-mccarthy-celebrates-110-years-rich-in-history/news-story/e6db51525a346379bde9d8a613eea437
- ↑ http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-20/oldest-queenslander-phyllis-lee-dies/9275488
- ↑ http://celebrations.armidaleexpress.com.au/celebration/armidaleexpress-au/celebrations-announcement.aspx?n=avis-sheedy&aid=189096899
- ↑ https://media.bupa.com.au/wilhelmina-celebrates-her-110th-birthday-in-style/
- ↑ https://mcguinessfunerals.com.au/overall-wilhelmina-elizabeth/
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