The Ages of the Characters

[QuagmireFan]

Babs is dead.

[SnicketFires]

CharlieBaudelaire2 said:

Grades? Can you tell me exactly what age you get put into certain grades as I live in England and we have years over here.

The grades I said were only examples, but I'll tell you them anyway.

Grade 1: 6 years old
Grade 2: 7 years old
Grade 3: 8 years old
Grade 4: 9 years old
Grade 5: 10 years old
Grade 6: 11 years old
Grade 7: 12 years old
Grade 8: 13 years old
Grade 9: 14 years old
Grade 10: 15 years old
Grade 11: 16 years old
Grade 12: 17 years old

[charliebaudelaire2]

Thankyou!

[Violet]

Count Olaf: I see him somewhere in his late forties, early fifties
Esme: Mid to late thirties
Mr. Poe: Somewhere around 50-55
Lemony: Around late thirties-early forties
Kit: Early forties-mid forties
Carmelita: I see her young, maybe 8-10
Quagmires: 13 (maybe 14 now)
Fiona: 15, 16

[Leaf]

Okay...

Olaf: Anywhere from late 40's to mid 50's.
Esme': Mid 30's
The Quagmires: 13-15
Fernald: Around 32
Fiona: 16
Lemony: Late 30's
Carmelita: 9-11

[Violet]

Leaf, the Quagmires were "a little older then Klaus and a little younger than Violet," paraphrasing, so they would be around 13-13, just so you know.

You think Fernald is half Fiona's age? Yeah, that could make sense...

What about Mr. Poe?

[Who wants to know?]

i disagree with Esme' age. i think shes around 36, and lies about her age. . . going through her midlife crisis, or something (when my aunt went through hers, i got 2 go sky diving!!! fun!!!!)

[Salex_]

I think Duncan, Isadora, and Quigley are all about 14-15. I pictured Carmelita looking like she's about 12 in the AA and about 14 in the GG. I always pictured Esme at least in her early 40's! I pictured Kit about 33-35. I pictured Mr. Poe about 41 at the beginning of the series and about 43 or 44 at the end. I pictured Count Olaf to be in his late 50's but he could be as old as his late 60's even. Sunny's about 1 or 2.

[RockSunner]

Here's a handy relationship chart: www.heather5.com/cousin.html

If Olaf is the Baudelaire's fourth cousin three times removed, then his
great great great grandfather or grandmother is the same as their great great great great great great grandfather or grandmother.

GGGGGGg---GGGGGg--GGGGg--GGGg--GGg--Gg----g--f--B's

GGGg ---------GGg---------Gg---------g--------f--------Olaf

So Olaf is in the same generation as the Baudelaire's great grandfather. If he's their third cousin four times removed he's one generation older than that. Counting 20 years each for three generations plus Violet's age, Olaf's probably in his seventies or older. (It can be less if one line was consistently earlier in having children than the other).

[Loverly Spring]

Count Olaf - 45-55
Justice Strauss - 40s
Aunt Josephine - 50ish
Sir - 40s-50s
Phil - 30s
Vice Principal Nero - Late 40s
Carmelita Spats - 12
Jerome - 30s
Esme - 30s
Hector - 30s
Babs - 40s
Captain Widdershins - Late 40s early 50s
Fiona-16 or 17
Fernald-20s
Lemony Snicket - Late 30s
Kit-Late 20s early 30s
Bald man-40s