Britain’s oldest twins have died just weeks apart after being inseparable for 103 years.
Glenys Thomas died in April before her heartbroken sister Florence Davies passed away within a month.
The great-great-grandmothers were born in 1911, the year before the Titanic sunk. They lived through two world wars, the civil rights movement and huge advances in technology and transport.
But they always lived in the small mining village of Abertridwr, in Caerphilly, South Wales, where they had homes next to each other.
The twins – believed to be the oldest identical twins in the world – built an interior door joining the two kitchens of their homes to make it easier to see each other.
The pair did everything together before Mrs Thomas died on April 23, followed by Mrs Davies last Wednesday, May 20. Their family put their great age down to a “nice, quiet life”.
Mrs Thomas’s daughter Gwenda Stacey, 65, said: “They have lived a simple life, they never went abroad, they were always happiest together.”
Mrs Thomas was a mother of one, grandmother to three, a great grandmother to nine and had one great-great-grandson. Mrs Davies had three children, nine grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren.
Both sisters – who worked as cleaners before becoming housewives – outlived their husbands.
They both suffered from dementia, but still “asked for each other” at the care home where they both went to live.
Mrs Stacey added: “Their connection was lasting and truly life long.”
This article was originally published in the Telegraph.
