104 - Margaret Longmire - Troutbeck, Cumbria - Headstones of Centenarians on Waymarking.com

Margaret would have witnessed the start of the industrial revolution as mechanisation swept through the farming community in the valley. Horses would have been the motive power. Steam would not have made it up the steep road, but steam had reached the end of the valley at Troutbeck Bridge..

Longmire is an area of Trouteck village. Margaret's age is mentioned in a book on page 89, A Westmorland village; the story of the old homesteads and "statesman" families of Troutbeck by Windermere by Scott, S. H. Published in 1904. Google has digitised the book. Search the flip book for Margaret, second tab.

"The Fell people seem to live to a great 
age. One Margaret Longmire is commonly 
supposed to have lived to be 103 years old, 
and even sceptics in such matters seem 
disinclined to assail the statement. At all 
events octogenarians are not uncommon in 
Troutbeck, and the writer has come across 
more than one instance in his perusal of the 
parish registers of an octogenarian couple. "

The headstone stonemason was Airey of Kendal.

Location of Headstone: Troutbeck churchyard

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