“rs” 
Yo the Editor of the ssi Magazine. 
ot Le 
BEG leave to renew ny annual re- 
{ quest for information relative to 
the situation, circumstances, and mode 
of life, of such persons as have died at 
very advanced ages daring the last year. 
Many instances of this kind may escape 
my notice, 1 shall therefore be much 
obliged if any of your correspondents 
can extend, or correct, the following 
fist of persons, who have died in the 
year 1807, at the age of 100 yearg and 
upwards. 
Age, 
100 
100 
100 
100 
100 
100 
109 
100 
100 
100 
100 
101 
101 
101 
403 
101 
102 
102 
102 
102 
402 
102 
102 
402 
402 
102 
403 
163 
103 
104 
104 
104 
105, 
106 
107 
107 
107 
Mary Walton, Windy Nook. 
Mary Evans, Lidney, Gloster. 
Mrs. Deakin, Stoke Priory. 
Mrs. Mann, Ross, Hereford. 
Robert Stevenson, Kalbarehan, 
Widow Brame, Siipmeadow, 
Hannah Ranshaw, Newcastle. 
Alice Longwerth, ‘Blackburn. 
Mary Allcock, Aby, Tincoln. 
Richard Br ighouse, Auehton, 
William Dickenson, Scorton. 
Jonu Bell, Black Dub. 
Mrs. Siddall, near Tadcaster. 
Mrs. Grub, Weathersfield. 
Elizabeth Parkyn, St. Columb. 
John Paterson, Muirkirk. 
Elizabeth Thomas, Langynoyd. 
Wilham Kellman, Fochabers. 
Susannah Robshaw, East Moor. 
Hannah Wilson, Keswick. 
Elizabeth Linegar, Birmingham. 
Maria Price, Leeds. 
Ann Miller, Worstead. 
John Mirehouse, Mire Syke. 
Malcolm White, Glasgow. 
Mrs. Pratt, Birmingham. 
Sarah Buckle, Heathfield. 
Elizabeth Cryer, Ecup, York. 
Elizabeth Bicket, Newcastle. 
Mr. Fidier, Minter bourn. 
Amelia Butcher, Shrewsbury. 
Peter Danks, Walsail. 
James Lack, Hackney. 
Margaret Paton, Maucklin. 
Thomas Haggerty, lveland. 
John Maxwell, near Forfar. 
John Key, Edgburton 
108 John Thurel, Tours, France. 
110 Dennis Hempsey, Magilligan, 
~ land. : 
110 Michael M‘Namara, Ireland. 
111 Florence O’Sulivan, Ireland. 
112 Mary Heyward, Wombricge, 
115 John Ramsay, Collercoats. 
117 Aune-Meade, Ireland. 
Lire- 
£4 ee: 
Persons vemarkable for Lovgctity. 
whether any such person died in that 
[March t, 
Johnston, @ poor woman, 
123 
fast. 
128 Mr, Crobally, Broadstone, tveland. 
Of the above forty-six persons, twenty 
were males, and twenty-six females ; ; 
the latter had probably ail been mar- 
ried. Of the whole number, thirty-two 
were, at the time of their decease, in« 
habitants of England and Wales, six of 
Scotland, seven of Ireland, and one of 
France. 
Sixteen of the above persons are men- 
tioned as having enjoyed an almost uns 
interrupted state of good health, and 
retained the free use of their faculties 
to the last; and there can be no doubt 
that it-is chiefly under such circem- 
stances, that extraordinary long life is 
to be expected. It is also weil known 
that longevity is in some degree heredi- 
tary, and prevails in some families 
more than ir others; of which the above . 
list furnishes a remarkable instance in 
John Mirehouse, who died at the age 
of 102; his father died at the age of 95, 
his mother attamed her 100th” year ; 
three of his sisters died, each, at the 
age of 82, and a fourth sister im her 93d 
year. The accent given in your Ma- 
gazine, vol. 24, p. 200, of Thomas Atkin, 
furnishes another instance of thiskind. ~ 
James Lack, an old soldier, who is 
said to have died at Hackney, aged 105, © 
is included in the above list, on the au- 
thority of all the newspapers and pe- 
riodical publications ; but after many 
enguiries, I have much reason to doubt — 
Bels 
parish during the last year., 
Youwr’s, &c. 
February 4, 1808. Di JA 
a 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
‘BEG leave to inform you, for the 
enquiry of the curious naturalist, 
that on the 9th of December last I saw 
a flight of swallows, consisting of from 
thirty to forty, flying in a S.W. “direction, 
en Wandsworth common, but not seem 
ing on their emigration; their flight in 
that case is generally S.E. As they 
leave this country commonly much soon- 
er, [ think it worth a place in your valu- 
able miscellany, the Monthly Magazine, _ 
to enquire if the case is not singular 
‘The morning was nuld and foggy. . 
Your’s, &e. 
JOHN | 
No. 5, Smith-street, 
Chelsea, Jan. 6, 1808. 
