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Ada Whitfield
Ada Whitfield
Birth: {{#explode:2
England, United Kingdom
Death: {{#explode:3
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Validated

Ada Whitfield (8 January 1881 - 2 March 1991) was an Australian supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).

Biography[]

Whitfield was born in England, United Kingdom, on 8 January 1881. She became the oldest living person in Australia after the death of Mary Hurley on 16 November 1990. She died in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on 2 March 1991 at the age of 110 years, 53 days. Her successor as the oldest person in Australia was then-110-year-old Beatrice Pollock.

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Australia's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (V • TE)

Helen DunbarJessie PearceClara ByrneAda SharpHonora CorriganMary KeeferJosephine GasseElizabeth SwattonSamuel RoweSarah Potter • Jane Piercy • Mary NixonCaroline Mockridge • Agnes Dodds • Mary Hurley • Ada WhitfieldBeatrice Pollock • Gertie Nesbitt • Kit St. Clair • Ada Cleggett • Ada Stockdale • Mary MacPherson • Christina Cock • Jessie Hurley • Alice Lindsay • Sarah DaveyMyra Nicholson • E. Beatrice Riley • John Campbell Ross • Miriam Schmierer • Eva McConnell • Jane Gray • Vi Robbins • Ethel Farrell • Mary Whitehurst • Marjorie CookeMargaret VivianWilhelmina OverallAgnes Kluckhenn • Mabel CrosbyDexter KrugerIvy TateIna ReidGwen MooreCatherina van der Linden • Olga Abate • Ken Weeks

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