Granny/Grandad names - for inspiration...

[sunchild77]

I quite like the trend for old names at the moment, So Just a quick survey : What where your grandparents names?

Me:-Robert
Robert Alexander
Gladys Margaret
Jeannie

DH - Murdoch
Sidney
Dorothy Madeline
Helen

[bran]

Sally
Ralph (pronounced Rafe)
Laurence
Evelyn (pronounced Eve Lynn, not Ev-lyn)

I don't know about DH's side.

[LilQueenie]

Marcin
Davina
John
Margaret (pearl)

[sunchild77]

OOh Pearl is nice

[notquitenormal]

Mine were

Dorothy
Alexander
Margaret
Thomas

and because we're a complicated family I also have Joan & Leslie

[mumofeightplusfour]

william
gladys wanted for dd4 but vetoed by dh
orissa
james

[IngridFletcher]

Alice
Eric

Hilda
Edward

[juneybean]

Joseph
Janice
Joan
Minnie
Eric

[dwpanxt]

Peter + Mary
Cathleen (spelled with a C)+John

Harold + Dorothy
Lydia + Harry

[ShowOfHands]

Colin Frederick, Muriel Irene, Margaret.

Have been researching my family tree though and going back to the early 1700s onwards, here are a handful...

Theopholis
Walter
Josiah
Alfred
Horace
Albert
Herbert
Geo
Edwin
Orlando
Wash ington
Everard
Godfrey
Matilda
Miriam
Edith
Esther
Sabria
Gwendoline
Lucinda
Nanette
Chri stabel
Sylvie

[Granny23]

ME
Margaret
George

Margaret
Alexander

DH
Margaret
John

Margaret
James

No surprise then that my sister, DD1 and DGD2 all have Margaret in their names!

[sunchild77]

OOOh thanks showofhands
Its just so nice to see a list of "different" names... although Id expect to see a few faces if we called DC3 Theopholis..LOL

[jeanjeannie]

Edward and Ina
Horace and Daisy

DP's grandparents were from Serbian & Belarus - so I'll give spelling those a miss! My mum is an Ethel May and her sister a Muriel ...might want to give those a wide berth too!

[Nando95]

Glenys
Brian
Thelma
Ernest-john (Jack)

Him

Margaret-Rose
John
Sarah
Edward

Go on I know you wanna go with the name Thelma

[sunchild77]

Nando -Unfortunately Thelma just doesnt go with our surname... ;)

[notagrannyyet]

John & Florence
Elizabeth & Albert also Henry

Beatrice & Albert
Alice & Henry(Harry)

[letsblowthistacostand]

Lois
Shirley
Clayton
John
Margaret
William

[meadowlarks]

Jock and May
Louis and Patricia

[schroeder]

My Grandparents:
Margaret and Edgar
Frank and Gladys

DH's Granny is Lila which is lovely[Grin]

[emmyloo2]

Edward and Audrey
Marion and George

[harley85]

Dorothy + Samuel
Irene + Harry
Pamala + George

[Raahh]

Me- Peter, florence ( Peter for Ds's mid name), really wanted Florence for dd2)
Francis (frank) Doreen (no plans to use either! Gran and Mum both called Doreen, neither are offended)

[Raahh]

used Peter

[MercyMe]

Me

Henrietta (it's beginning to grow on me)
Jack
Eion
Dorothy

DH

Sheila
Tom
Susan
Alexander

[Tillyscoutsmum]

Mine were

Matilda
Lesley
Margaret
Raymond

DH's

Caroline
Rennie
Andrew
Elsie