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LongeviQuest is glad to report the addition of Carmelina Augusta Delgado to our ever-growing directory of supercentenarians.. She was the oldest living Portuguese supercentenarian in her country at the time of death. Her age was recently validated by the European Supercentenarian Organisation (ESO).

Delgado was born in the parish of Cabeça de Igreja (later annexed to the parish of Tuizelo), Municipality of Vinhais, Bragança, Portugal, on 8 November 1900. She left Bragança to live with her godmother, “Dona Inacinha” when she was 10 years old.

At the age of 106.
(Source: Portal do Envelhecimento)

Carmelina left her godmother when she was 23 years old to marry a policeman named Manuel António Gonçalves. Because of his husband’s field of work, they are always moving places as she was accompanying Manuel wherever he was deployed. The couple had two daughters together where one learned to work as a seamstress and the other went to study for school.

Carmelina Delgado passed away in Vimioso, Bragança, Portugal, on 19 May 2013.

For more information, please view Carmelina Augusta Delgado’s Directory Profile here.

Marie-Rose Tessier recently celebrated her 113^th birthday last 21 May 2023 in Chateau-d’Olonne. The European Supercentenarian Organisation (ESO) has validated her age on 8 February 2021. After Lucille Randon’s death on 17 January 1904, Marie-Rose became the oldest living person in France.

She was born as Marie-Rose Bousseau in a farm in Beaurepaire, Vendee, Pays de la Loire, France. Marie-Rose married Auguste Tessier on 14 November 1927.

Marie-Rose Tessier at 113 years

She retired and lived in the Paris region together with her two daughters, but she is now staying in Chateau-d’Olonne, Vendee, Pays de la Loire, France.

For more information, please view Marie-Rose Tessier’s Directory Profile here.

LongeviQuest is glad to report the addition of Sylvia Corfield to our ever-growing directory of supercentenarians. She was an English supercentenarian born on 21 November 1912 in Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. The European Supercentenarian Organisation (ESO) has validated the age of Sylvia at 110 years.

Her parents Thomas and Mary Aston had three children and she is the eldest after her younger brother and sister. Their family ran the village grocery store and bakery at that time.

She worked as a typist in Birmingham Pre-World War II and as the war emerged, she worked for British Motor Company that supplied the tanks for the forces.

Undated, with her husband.
(Source: Rochdale Online)

She married Douglas Corfield on 20 September 1947 and the couple had no child together. The two of them lived in Birmingham but later moved to Rochdale. After her husband passed away in 2008, she lived by herself until 2019.

She later moved to Highfield House Care in Heywood, Greater Manchester, England, in January 2020 where she lived until her own death on 18 December 2022. LongeviQuest extends their congratulations to the family of Mrs. Corfield on this posthumous recognition.

For more information, please view Sylvia Corfield’s Directory Profile here.

LongeviQuest is glad to report the addition of Giuseppa Salerno to our ever-growing directory of supercentenarians. She is an Italian supercentenarian born in Naples, Campania, Italy, on 17 June 1911 and the European Supercentenarian Organisation (ESO) has validated her age at 111 years.

On her 110th birthday in 2021.
(Source: Breaking Latest News)

During her 110^th birthday, Salerno had five children, 24-grandchildren, 44-great grandchildren, and five great-great grandchildren. LongeviQuest extends their congratulations to the family of Mrs. Salerno on this posthumous recognition.

For more information, please view Giuseppa Salerno’s Directory Profile here.

LongeviQuest is pleased to report that the European Supercentenarian Organisation (ESO) has validated the age of Deolinda Nazaré D’Almeida at 110 years. A Portuguese supercentenarian, she was born on 20 February 1913 in Lisbon, Lisbon District.

Da Nazaré on her 109th birthday (Source: Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Espinho on Facebook)

She had a son and a daughter with her late milliner husband, Manuel Morais. She casually taught sewing classes while being a seamstress until the 1970s. Shortly after, her husband passed away in 1973. She is currently residing at Espinho, Aveiro District, Portugal where is the oldest resident and third oldest in the whole country.

For more information, please view Mrs. D’Almeida Directory Profile here.

The European Supercentenarian Organisation (ESO) is an Accredited Partner Organization of LongeviQuest. ESO researchers are represented on the Global Validation Commission by Dr. Andrew Holmes

The Bribie Island Baptist Church of Bongaree recently confirmed on its YouTube channel the passing of Mrs. Mary Gwendoline “Gwen” Moore, the oldest living person in Australia.

Mrs. Moore was born in Tredegar, Wales, UK, in 1911. At some point, she moved to Australia where she spent her final days in Bongaree, a suburb of Bribie Island, Queensland. She passed away on 31 March, aged 111. Her age has not been validated by LongeviQuest or European Supercentenarian Organisation (ESO).

With the passing of Mrs. Moore, the title of Australia’s oldest living resident goes to Catherina van der Linden of Adelaide, South Australia. Mrs. van der Linden was born in the Netherlands, on 26 August 1912, and migrated to Australia in 1955 with her husband and children.

Besides Mrs. van der Linden, there’s one more supercentenarian living in Australia, Mrs. Dulcie Fawcett of Western Australia, who celebrated her 110th birthday in January.