Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Grandchildren



His great-grandson was said to have died in this century in Cork at the age of 103.

Another socurce is more precise about the off-springs, but on the same time contradictory.
There was doubtless something peculiar in Parr's constitution which enabled him to resist so long the effects of age and natural decay. As a corroboration of the theory of the hereditary trans-mission of qualities, it is a curious circumstance that Robert Parr, a grandson of this wonderful old man, who was born at Kinver in 1633, died in 1757, at the age of a 124.