| Caroline Mockridge | |
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| Birth: | 11 December 1874 Geelong, Victoria, Australia |
| Death: | 6 November 1987 Geelong, Victoria, Australia |
| Age: | 112 years, 330 days |
| Country: |  AUS
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| Validated | |
Caroline Mockridge (11 December 1874 – 6 November 1987) was a validated Australian supercentenarian.
Biography[]
Caroline was born in Newtown, Geelong. Her father was an English immigrant and her mother was from Scotland. She had 13 siblings in total. Mockridge won a scholarship to college when she was in sixth grade. She began working as a teacher apprentice in 1893, a profession that she continued with for the next 46 years. She primarily worked in state primary schools. Aside from teaching, she could play various instruments such as the violin, piano and flute.
She was still able to bake scones at age 107. Aged 110, she was described as frail, yet mentally alert. She lived together with her younger sisters until 1982, when she moved to a nursing home. Mockridge never smoked. She never married either.
Mockridge died on 6 November 1987, at the age of 112 years, 330 days. At the time, she was the oldest Australian ever, but she is now the 5th-oldest.
References[]
- Last of the Victorians The Age, 25 June 1985
- Australia's oldest woman dies The Age, 9 November 1987
| Australia's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (V • T • E) |
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Helen Dunbar • Jessie Pearce • Clara Byrne • Ada Sharp • Honora Corrigan • Mary Keefer • Josephine Gasse • Elizabeth Swatton • Samuel Rowe • Sarah Potter • Jane Piercy • Mary Nixon • Caroline Mockridge • Agnes Dodds • Mary Hurley • Ada Whitfield • Beatrice Pollock • Gertie Nesbitt • Kit St. Clair • Ada Cleggett • Ada Stockdale • Mary MacPherson • Christina Cock • Jessie Hurley • Alice Lindsay • Sarah Davey • Myra Nicholson • E. Beatrice Riley • John Campbell Ross • Miriam Schmierer • Eva McConnell • Jane Gray • Vi Robbins • Ethel Farrell • Mary Whitehurst • Marjorie Cooke • Margaret Vivian • Wilhelmina Overall • Agnes Kluckhenn • Mabel Crosby • Dexter Kruger • Ivy Tate • Ina Reid • Gwen Moore • Catherina van der Linden • Marija Ruljancich |