Wilson Kettle


William Wilson Kettle was a Canadian centenarian.
Kettle worked as a mariner and a fisherman, as did his father, who had emigrated from Dorset, England, At age 44, Kettle worked as diver after the diver he had hired quit; he was 84 when he made his last dive. He owned and operated a schooner, which he built and used for commerce between Port Aux Basques and Nova Scotia and for Swordfishing.
Kettle married Mary Lomond on 21 October 1884. They had eight children; Mary died at age 38 in 1903. Later that year, Kettle married Hannah Gilliam. They had five children; Hannah died in 1947 at age 71. By the time of his death, Kettle had outlived two of his 13 children. He had 65 grandchildren, 201 great-grandchildren, and 305 great-great-grandchildren, for a total of 582 living descendants, earning him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Kettle, whose mother lived to be 108, was born and died in Grand Bay, Newfoundland.