NATURAL HISTORY. 
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With respect to longevity, the inhabitants of Wor- 
cestershire can probably adduce as many instances 
shewing that the climate is not unfavourable to long 
life as most other districts. In taking the account 
of the population of Droitwich in 1821, there were 
found six sisters, all of them widows, whose united 
ages amounted to 443 years, viz. — Elizabeth Everton 
86 ; Ann Underwood 77 ; Mary Bourne 75 ; Martha 
Blackford 71 ; Margaret Noake 68 ; Hannah Ken- 
dall 66. 
The united ages of the sixteen men, inmates of 
St. Oswald's Hospital, in September 1831, amounted 
to 1,123 years ; and the twelve women, partakers 
of this excellent charity, had collectively attained the 
advanced age of 826 years. 
At Hawford, in the parish of Claines, December 
the 17th, 1792, lived Samuel Corby n, a member of 
the Society of Friends. He had two brothers and 
two sisters, all of whom attained a great age. — 
John Corbyn, was born in 1700, and died in 1785. 
Samuel Corbyn, 1706, 1799. 
Thomas Corbyn, 1711, . 1791. 
Hannah Palmer, 1713, > . . , „ 
' ' were hvmff in 1796. 
Candia Burlingham, 1714, 
The Father died aged 84, and the Mother aged 97. 
There is now living in the parish of Stone, in this 
county, a poor man aged 104, who spent his early 
days at manual labour, and now enjoys a peaceful 
and serene old age. 
The following notices, also, of aged individuals 
connected with our own county, being taken from 
authentic sources, may be relied on. 
