Older sires may have had granddaughters with phenotype records.
Dr. Price obtained permission to reopen O'Neill's records from his granddaughter, the actress Geraldine Chaplin, one of eight children born to O'Neill's daughter, Oona, and the actor Charlie Chaplin.
The record holder's granddaughter says he credits his longevity to sweets.
The groom was the distinguished British conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner, and his bride was Isabella de Sabata, a recording producer and the granddaughter of the late Italian maestro Victor de Sabata.
In "The Welcoming Baptism of Sweet Daisy Grace" (2008), completed shortly before the birth of Mr. Riley's granddaughter, the quartet plays against a recorded tamboura, an Indian drone instrument or, at least, a reasonable electronic facsimile.
At Newmarket in Britain, Tattersalls' April sale attracted several contingents of Japanese buyers, one of whom paid $450,000 for a granddaughter of Seattle Slew, in the process pushing prices to European records.
After lottery winner Jack Whitaker, of Hurricane, W. Va., went through a litany of problems, including the drug overdose death of his granddaughter, his wife said she wished he had torn up his record-breaking Powerball ticket.
Poring over records, she learned that an elderly Long Island woman, her three sons and her granddaughter were the only living descendants.
Walker's record label said he is survived by partner Beverly, daughter Lee and granddaughter Emmi-Lee.
Two years ago, at an auction in Paris that set new records for couture, the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum acquired twenty-six ensembyes by Paul Poiret that his granddaughter had put up for sale.
"The final record of Cayley's involvement with the aeroplane", it reported, "is the recollection of his granddaughter, Mrs Dora Thompson, when about 80.
