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Jean McCullough

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Jean McCullough
Jean McCullough
McCullough on her 103rd birthday in 2017
Birth: 29 November 1914
Larne, Ireland, UK (now Northern Ireland)
Death: 16 September 2022
Larne, Northern Ireland
Age: 107 years, 291 days
Country: United KingdomUK
Centenarian

Jane "Jean" McCullough (née Lyttle; 29 November 1914 – 16 September 2022) was a British centenarian who was the oldest known living person in Northern Ireland at the time of her death.

Biography[]

Jean McCullough was born in Larne, Ireland, UK (now Northern Ireland) on 29 November 1914. Her parents were Samuel Lyttle and Mary (née Gillen) Lyttle. She had eight siblings (one died in infancy).

She was raised in a farm. She studied at the national school in Ballysnod. She was the first woman in her family to receive a scholarship to attend college in Belfast, where she studied short-hand, bookkeeping and typing. When she was struck down by a serious ailment in her leg, her father had to borrow a pony and trap to take her home to Larne. She never returned to college.

She married Cecil McCullough at the age of 19. The couple moved to Belfast. They had six children: Brian, Drew, Sheila Mills (born 1944), Loretta, Heather and Gerald. When her son Gerald was old enough to go to school, she took a job as a bookkeeper.

On her 105th birthday in 2019, he had at least one living brother Robert Lyttle (living in Canda).

She became the oldest known living person in Northern Ireland, following the death of 107-year-old Madge Martin on 23 July 2021.

McCullough died at her home in Larne, Northern Ireland, UK on 16 September 2022, at the age of 107 years, 291 days.

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