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Emma Weeks
Emma Weeks
Weeks (bottom centre) on her 104th birthday
Birth: 20 May 1852
St Pancras, London, England, UK
Death: 6 February 1959
Fulham, London, England, UK
Age: 106 years, 262 days
Country: United Kingdom UK
Centenarian

Emma Weeks (20 May 1852 – 6 February 1959) was a British centenarian who was the oldest known living person in the United Kingdom at the time of her death.

Biography[]

Emma Weeks was born on 20 May 1852 (although a Women's Voluntary Service magazine article from 1958 claims her birthday was on 28 May). She became the oldest person in the country upon the death of 107-year-old Rhoda Harris on 16 January 1959, and held the title until her own death on 6 February 1959, aged 106 years, 262 days. She held the title for exactly three weeks, the shortest anyone has held it. Her successor was Edith Grellier.

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United Kingdom's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (VE)

Frederick Stabbins • Jane ListerMartha Truelove • Ann Sharp • Jane Raby • Frances Smith • William Walker • Ann Russell • Eliza Roff • Ellen Palmer • Rachel MacArthur • Rachel SwainMary Davey • Thomas Pope • John Francklow • Rebecca Lees • Sarah Fitt • Elizabeth Sellwood • Matilda Coppins • Elizabeth Whitehead • Emma Rooke • Margaret Lunn • Sarah Humphrey • Caroline BealeFanny Hopkins • Elizabeth Etheridge • Sophia Wellstead • Rhoda Harris • Emma Weeks • Edith Grellier • Mary WorthingtonJane Stoneman • Ellen Dart • Elizabeth Kensley • Hannah SmithJohn Mosley TurnerAda Roe • Alice StevensonElizabeth WatkinsFrederick Butterfield • Rose Heeley • Agnes Helyar • James Harrow • Sarah Morgan • Lilias WilliamsFlorence PannellJeanetta ThomasAlice Brewster • Anna Eliza Williams • Kate Begbie • Charlotte Hughes • Daisy Adams • Rebecca Hewison • Annie Scott • Rachel Wieselberg • Lucy Askew • Annie Jennings • Eva Morris • Amy Hulmes • Nellie Bradley • Gladys Hawley • Lucy d'Abreu • Judy Ingamells • Emmeline BriceAnnie Knight • Ada Mason • Florrie Baldwin • Eunice BowmanAnnie Turnbull • Elsie SteeleMargaret Fish • Violet Wood • Grace A Jones • Ethel Lang • Gladys Hooper • Bessie CammOlive BoarGrace C JonesGwen PayneHilda ClulowBob WeightonJoan HocquardLilian PriestGertrude KingstonMollie WalkerEthel Caterham

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