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What are your Grandparents' names...?

226 replies

purpleiris · 19/12/2010 20:05

Mine are/were...

Dorothy
Marjorie
William
Albert

And the great-grandparents I know of (must find out the rest!)...

Alice
Wilfred

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CharlotteBronteSaurus · 19/12/2010 20:07

william x 2
margaret (molly)
winifred

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perpetuallypregnant · 19/12/2010 20:08

My grandfathers had nice names - grandmothers, not so much!

Thomas
James
Doris
Ethel

Greats (other way round!)

Herbert
John
Louisa
Sophia

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norfolkBRONZEturkey · 19/12/2010 20:08

Peggy (though that wasn't her real name)
Ernest

Cyril (known as Dave)
Betty

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PaxoIsEvil · 19/12/2010 20:10

Phyllis
Ronald
Thomas
Florence

Beatrice
George

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stinkypinky · 19/12/2010 20:10

William and Gwendolyne

Douglas and Olive

Damn I miss them Sad

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latermater · 19/12/2010 20:10

John
Ruby

Frederick (Fred)
Amy

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Avocadoes · 19/12/2010 20:11

Jack & Kathleen
Kenneth & Annie

great grand parents (that I know) were:

Kathleen & Sidney
Daisy & Stanley
Cassandra & Ernest

if I ever have a son he may be Sidney, Stanley or Ernest. I love those names.

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devonsmummy · 19/12/2010 20:12

George
Alfred - known as Mick??
Joyce
Elsie

Greats -

Mildred
Gladys
Rose
George

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BikeRunSki · 19/12/2010 20:13

Mine and DH's:

Evelyn
Rex
Helen
Arthur
Fred
Elsie
Dorothy
Samuel

My GGP's that I know
Miriam
James

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SandStorm · 19/12/2010 20:13

Alice
Erica
Jurgen
Harry

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latrucha · 19/12/2010 20:14

Ethel and Harald.

Noreen and Herbert (known as Jay)

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CarGirl · 19/12/2010 20:15

Norman
Grace
Norman
Jeanie

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TinselinaBumSquash · 19/12/2010 20:15

Barbara and John
Kathy and Charles
Pam and George
Walter and Thelma

Great GP's

Alice and Charles
John and Victoria

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NoahAndTheWhale · 19/12/2010 20:15

Mine were

Ivy
Thomas
Ernest
Edna

DH's were/are

Sylvia
Humphrey
Alec
Ethel

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PictureThis · 19/12/2010 20:16

Henry and Florence (known as Harry and Rose)

Eric and Joan

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4andnotout · 19/12/2010 20:16

Kenneth Frank
Eileen Grace

Gladys Dorothy
Anthony James

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sofaaddict · 19/12/2010 20:19

Lydia
Diana

Kenneth
Arthur

That made me miss my Grandads. Xmas Sad

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FunkySnowSkeleton · 19/12/2010 20:20

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TmiEdward · 19/12/2010 20:20

Me & DH's GPs, step GPs and GGPs in no particular order

Reginald (known as Harold)
June
Thomas
Frances
Elsie
Edwin (known as Joe)
Maggie
Henry
Hilda
Allen
Margaret (known as Ethel)
Harry

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4andnotout · 19/12/2010 20:20

Dp's were

Esther
David

Charles (Charlie)
Amy
Dp's mum despairs that I refused to use Esther for any of our dd's, my names just aren't Jewish enough Grin

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tinselthechaffinch · 19/12/2010 20:20

Ewart (but known by pen name of Charles)
Margaret

Dennis
Jean

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TidyHollyBush · 19/12/2010 20:20

Grandparents
Albert
Emily
James
Elizabeth


Great Grandparents (known)
Noah
Flora
Charles
Elizabeth
Joseph
Clara
Sarah

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PublicHair · 19/12/2010 20:20

caitlin and John
harold and margaret

greats were

Kathleen and Patrick
Mary and Edward
Dorothy May and John
Mary and Seamus

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pink4ever · 19/12/2010 20:20

GPS were-
John and Mary
Myra and ?(dont know-he died before I was bornBlush

GGPS-
Donald and Catherine
John and Jessie(not jessica)

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brimfull · 19/12/2010 20:21

Agnes
Robert
Andrew
Elizabeth

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