Hanna Barysiewicz
Belarusian agriculturer and supercentenarian
Hanna Adamauna Barysevich (Belarusian: Ганна Адамаўна Барысевiч, Russian: Анна Адамовна Борисевич; née Navitska; 18 May [O.S. 6 May] 1888 (claimed) – 23 February 2007) was the oldest female resident of Belarus not registered by the Guinness Book of Word Records. Until her death, she was reputedly the oldest resident in the country and, according to the media, in the world. She lived to the claimed age of 118 years and 281 days.
Early life
Hanna Navitska was born in the village of Buda near Ihumen (modern-day Chervyen), to a peasant family of Adam Navitski and his second wife, Yuzefa. When she was sixteen months old (four months according to other data), her mother died. Her father remarried. Navitska was raised by her older stepsister and grandmother.
When Navitska was a child, her family moved to Stary Koychyn (now Byerazino district). Her father, Adam, purchased a piece of land from the owner of the manor. As payment, the Navitski family worked on the landowner's land.
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