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Relatives from that age include William Issac, John, Sarah, Ida Irene, Arthur and my personal favourites Keziah and Hepzibah.

GMs Mabel, Eveline and Winifred
GFs George and Stanley

GPs Marjorie and Albert. Gladys and Paul

GGP Lily. Primrose and Robert. Primrose will be 91 this month

Stanley and Fay, and Ernest and Frances.

Don't know my GGP names, apart from one which was Abel.

Lillian, Hereville (wtf! Never heard of another), Dorothea, Jesse, Thomas, Cecily, Bertram, Lillian (again - popular back then too). Don't know the others. Cool thread! Nice to look back at old names. I actually really quite like Cecily.

My maternal gp's were Phyllis Rose Mary and Frederick Gaius. No idea on paternal, dad wasn't really in touch and they died when I was very small

I had a great aunt Louisa as well, my middle name comes from her

Ggp only know Harriet, Helen and Matthew
Gp Alice and Elias
Sarah (Sally) and James (Jim)

GPs, Winifred, Thomas, William and Catherine.

GPs: Robert, Margaret, Sheila, Dennis
GGPs: Percival, Mary, Philip, Patricia, Margaret, John, James, Ann
GGPs: George, Mary Ann, Margaret, Sarah, George, Edward, Mary, Arthur, Elizabeth, Horace, Sophia, James, Elizabeth, George, Lilla.

ggp Hannah and James, Nancy and Albert
GP Annie and Robert. Olive and Richard (all girls had floral/plant names. Violet,Flora,Daisy,Hazel
Most unusual name was a great Aunt called Cyntia (sin-tee-ah) but that was apparently due to a misspelling of Cynthia at the registry office

gps were Jane, Evan, Kenneth and Zana

ggps were William, Rachel, Thomas, Esther, Alfred, Beatrice and 2 unknown....

Great grandparents were Violet, Adam, Mary, Patrick, Moses, Anne, Mariah & William

Gp - Lily and Vincent (known as Lil and Vin), Alfred and Margaret (known as Fred and Meg)

Ggp - Sam, Minnie, Michael, Ada, Alfred, Lillian, Charles, Rebecca

Grandparents born between 1919 and 1926:

Renee (with an accent over first 'e') and Leslie
Lillian-Amy and James

Great-grandparents, born 1880s approx:

Kate and James
Lillian and Thomas

DHs:

Clarice and Benjamin

Walter, Michael, Patrick, Tom, Peter, Sarah, Kathleen, Ellen, Mary, Annie

My grandparents, born between 1900 and 1920 were: Arthur, Eleanor, Percy and Ivy. There middle names were Edward (may have been Albert George too, but not sure), Amy, William and Ellen.

GPs Michael and Margaret; Bernard and Brigid.
Great aunts/uncles - Babe (Julia), Bel (Elizabeth), Maud, Daniel, Bat (Bartholemew), Jeremiah, Patrick

Not sure of great grandparents but grandparents are: mabel, Maurice, frank, kathleen.

Between DH and I there's Ronald, James x 2, Wilfred, Veronica, Bessie, Joan and Peggie. Used James for DS's middle name.

Charles, Edith, Raymond and Betty ( not short for anything) .

GGP's: George & Harriet, Albert & Esther, Hartley & Eliza, John & Jane.

Other common family names: Joseph, Phoebe, Arthur, Alice ... and special mention to the brave GGGM who called her firstborn son Theophilus!

Ceinwyn, Arthur, Joseph, Nancy, Glenys, Wayne, Beverly, Lynette, Kenneth, Joan, Catherine, Patricia, Noel, Marie, Frank, Geraldine

Queenie, William, Doris, Edward x2, Alice x 2, Edith x 2, Joseph, Frederick, Philip

GPs: Gladys, Brenda, Norman & Ernest
GA/U: Neville, Isa, Percy, Daisy, Eric, Edward, Iris

GGPs: Wilfred, Nellie, Henry and Polly

grandparents: Leonard, Catherine (2nd wife Gertrude ), Florence, Sidney.

Don't know names of all great grandparents: Rosa, Jack, John...