BRITAIN'S OLDEST WOMAN
• Received Wednesday 7.0 p.m. LONDO'N, August 6. Britain rs oldest inhabitant, Miss Isobella Shepherd, celebrated fler birtliday on August 5 at the Ministry of' Health 's Honie for Women Pensioner3 at Bodrhyddan, near Rhyl, hut she does not know whether she is 113, 114 or 115 years old for she was borrj. before birth registration was compulsory. The DaiLy Mail says it is known she was born in London during. William the Fourth's reign which began in 1830 and she rememhers Queen Victoria coming to, the throne in 1837.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 August 1947, Page 5
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