Recently, a 92-year-old woman was lucky enough to become a great-great-great grandmother, a title that’s so rare that her family had to Google it.
Tish Lidstone welcomed the sixth generation of her family into the world last week when her great-great grandson, Morgan Wallace, had his first child. He named his son Kartar.
“It’s one of them things you thank God every day that you’re alive and that you can live to see,” great-great-great grandmother Lidstone told CBC Radio’s Island Morning.
The family lives on Canada’s Prince Edward Island and is one of only two families in the country to have six generations alive at the same time. The family found out just how rare their circumstances are when baby Kartar’s great-grandmother Janice Annand, 51, searched Google and only found a handful of similar cases.
Overjoyed by the newest addition to the family, Annand reached out to reporters to share her family’s unique story.
“My grandmother can’t believe she’s still here to see six generations,” she says.
Annand’s daughter, Sherri-Lynn Wallace, 33, told reporters that she is thrilled to be a new grandmother to Kartar.
“He’s a cute little thing,” she says. “You just don’t ever hear about it. It was a big deal when we had five generations and now to have the six, it’s pretty amazing.”
What’s more unbelievable is that members from all five successive generations live within 15 minutes of the family matriarch — and each other — in western Prince Edward Island. Lidstone summed it up best saying, “I just love having them all here.”
