List of Portuguese supercentenarians

This is an incomplete list of Portuguese supercentenarians (people from Portugal who have attained the age of at least 110 years). The Gerontology Research Group (GRG), an organization that tracks supercentenarians and validates age claims, has verified the ages of seven supercentenarians from Portugal.^[1] The oldest person ever from Portugal was Maria de Jesus, who died in 2009 aged 115 years 114 days. As of 16 February 2016, there are no known living supercentenarians living in Portugal.

Living Portuguese supercentenarians

Any living people who are verified to be at least 110 years old can be found at List of oldest living people.

Verified Portuguese supercentenarians

Below is a list of supercentenarians who are living in or died in Portugal. Entries for living people are rendered in italics

Rank	Name	Sex	Birth date	Death date	Age	District or region of birth	District or region of death
1	Maria de Jesus[2]	F	10 September 1893	2 January 2009	115 years, 114 days	Santarém	Santarém
2	Maria do Couto Maia[3]	F	24 October 1890	25 July 2005	114 years, 274 days	Porto	Porto
3	Maria Nunes da Silva[4]	F	7 July 1898	26 September 2011	113 years, 81 days	Porto	Lisbon
4	Catarina Carreiro[3]	F	9 January 1891	13 February 2004	113 years, 35 days	Castelo Branco	Castelo Branco
5	Clara dos Santos[3]	F	26 March 1894	25 October 2006	112 years, 213 days	Viseu	Lisbon
6	Augusto Moreira de Oliveira[2]	M	6 October 1896	13 February 2009	112 years, 130 days	Aveiro	Porto District
7	Antonio de Castro[2]	M	6 January 1898	22 June 2009	111 years, 167 days	Braga	Braga District

Portuguese emigrant supercentenarians

Below is a list of supercentenarians born in Portugal who are living in or emigrated to another country before they died.

Rank	Name	Sex	Birth date	Death date	Age	District or region of birth	Country of death
1	Mary Marques[5]	F	11 February 1896	3 January 2008	111 years, 326 days	Leiria	United States
2	Alice Sanders[6]	F	12 May 1897	7 November 2007	110 years, 179 days	Azores	United States

People

Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes

Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes (24 October 1890 – 25 July 2005) was the 2nd longest-lived person to be documented in Portugal. She was born and lived in Grijó, in Vila Nova de Gaia, which is near the city of Porto.

She remembered the day when the last king of Portugal, D. Manuel II, visited the nearby town of Espinho, on 23 November 1908.^[7]

Maia-Lopes was nearly deaf and blind in her later years, and was confined to bed after a 2002 domestic accident with boiling water that burned her feet. She had a total of eight daughters, seven grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren. Her husband died in 1942. One of her great-granddaughters married a grandson of Portugal's oldest ever man, Augusto Moreira de Oliveira (1896 – 2009).^[8]

Maia-Lopes died at the age of 114 years 274 days, which places her as one of the 40 longest lived people ever. At the time of her death, she was the 2nd-oldest person in Europe, behind Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper. She was also recognized as the 4th-oldest person in the world behind van Andel-Schipper, Elizabeth Bolden and Bettie Wilson, both from the United States. Maia-Lopes would later be relegated to fifth-oldest in the world at the time of her death with the recognition of María Capovilla of Ecuador.^[1]

Alice Sanders

Alice Sanders (São Jorge Island, 12 May 1897 – Merced, California, 7 November 2007)^[1] was one of the last survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Alice Catarina Matos was born in the Azores archipelago. Her family emigrated to Half Moon Bay (California) in 1903, when Alice was 6 years old. The April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake, a few weeks prior to Alice's ninth birthday, was a traumatic experience to her family, since they believed the end of the World had come. In 1912, the Matos family moved to Gustine, where Alice met Clarence Leonard Sanders, which became her husband in the Christmas Day of 1913.^{[9] [10]}

Maria Luíza Nunes da Silva

Maria Luíza Beires Nunes da Silva (7 July 1898 – 26 September 2011) of Lisbon was a Portuguese supercentenarian who was 113 years 81 days at her death. She was the oldest living person in Portugal. She became the oldest living woman in Portugal on 2 January 2009 following the death of Maria de Jesus, who at 115 years 114 days was the oldest verified living person worldwide. With the death of Antonio de Castro on the 22 June 2009 at age 111 years 167 days, she was the oldest Portuguese person.

Maria Luiza Nunes da Silva exercised everyday and was reported to be in good health, although she was in a wheelchair most of the time. She resided in Lisbon with a daughter of hers. da Silva also had 12 grandchildren, 41 great-grandchildren, and 14 great-great-grandchildren at the time of her death.^[11]

On 26 September 2011 she died at the age of 113 years 81 days, and was the 12th oldest person in the world at the time of her death.

References

1. Validated living supercentenarians The Gerontology Research Group lists persons as living whose age has been validated and confirmed to be alive within the past year.
2. GRG Deaths in 2009
3. Supercentenarians who lived in Portugal
4. GRG Deaths in 2011
5. GRG Deaths in 2008
6. GRG Deaths in 2007
7. on Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes
8. Portugal's oldest woman dies at 114
9. "New Bedford, Mass". Portuguese Times. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
10. Jasonmerced, Scott (2007-11-09). "One of oldest Portuguese women, 110, dies - Local". Modbee.com. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
11. Gerontology Research Group Note: Scroll near the bottom of the page. Retrieved 2009-10-25.