My feed
Premium

Please
or
to access all these features

Find baby name inspiration and advice on the Mumsnet Baby Names forum.

Baby names

What were your grandparents called?

474 replies

Oopsie · 12/06/2011 15:50

I'm looking for some good oldie names.

OP posts:
Report
lockets · 12/06/2011 15:52

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

aliceliddell · 12/06/2011 15:53

Laurence, Violet, Margaret, Charles, Eleanor/Nellie, Benjamin (open adoption, so 6)

Report
DirtyMartini · 12/06/2011 15:53

Ruth
Robert
Marie
Iain

Report
BelleEnd · 12/06/2011 15:53

Oh nice idea! Mine are alive, kicking and wonderful.
Una (I love this)
Dafydd
Jean
John

Report
Bunbaker · 12/06/2011 15:56

Prudence and Thomas
Felix and Irmgard

Report
jenniec79 · 12/06/2011 15:56

Mary & Frank

Dora & Lewis

I only ever met Dora, in fact she was the only one surviving when my parents got together.

I'd like to use the name Dora for a girl but worry about the "Explorer" connection.

Lewis I much prefer to Louis for a boy, but prefer Frances (girl) to Frank/Francis (boy)

Mary's sister was Auntie Lily (Who I did meet - in fact she lived with us when I was a child). I'd definately use the name Lilian (nn Lily) too.

Report
Oopsie · 12/06/2011 15:57

Sorry Bellend, I should have added a '/are' there fir those still alive and kicking.

OP posts:
Report
fivegomadindorset · 12/06/2011 15:58

Alec, Bridget, Joseph, Elizabeth.

Report
UrsulaBuffay · 12/06/2011 15:59

Constance
Nancy
Joseph
Fred
Joan
Arthur

Report
rachel1970 · 12/06/2011 15:59

Quentin & Mary
Sigrid & Charles

Report
iskra · 12/06/2011 16:00

Audrey Jean and Arthur Maynard
Mary and Harry

G grandparents were
Molly and Barnes
Marie and Humphrey
Georgina and Maynard
Arthur and Elizabeth

Report
rachel1970 · 12/06/2011 16:00

Ursula, how can you have 6 grandparents ??

Report
itsohsoquiet · 12/06/2011 16:00

Nellie Dorothy
Leslie
Edith Elena
Stanley

Report
Chandon · 12/06/2011 16:01

Daniel
Theresa
John
Sophia

Report
roguepixie · 12/06/2011 16:01

Agnes Lillian and Albert Francis
Harry and Doris

Report
BecauseImWorthIt · 12/06/2011 16:01

Isabella and Thomas
Charles and Janet

Report
ByTheBeardOfZeus · 12/06/2011 16:02

Jock and May, Louis and Patricia.

Report
JiltedJohnsJulie · 12/06/2011 16:02

Hannah Mary and John Thomas

Frederick John and Ada

Report
GRW · 12/06/2011 16:02

Alice and Herbert
Olwen and John

Report
QOD · 12/06/2011 16:02

Bertha and Kenneth
Renee and Ernest

steps - Gordon & Bridget

DH's - dunno - nanna no legs is all I know!

Report
iskra · 12/06/2011 16:02

Rachel1970 - adoption, remarriage...? DP had three grandfathers, two biological and one step.

Report
AmazingBouncingFerret · 12/06/2011 16:03

Elsie and Thomas
(my Nannas 2nd husband who I considered my grandad was called Edward.)

John and Catherine. Infact she has the exact same name as our future queen. Grin

Report

Don’t want to miss threads like this?

Weekly

Sign up to our weekly round up and get all the best threads sent straight to your inbox!

Log in to update your newsletter preferences.

You've subscribed!

coccyx · 12/06/2011 16:06

mollie and jack
robert and helen

Report
mejon · 12/06/2011 16:07

John and Catherine Averina (known as Vri)

Sidney and Sallie.

Report
superjobeespecs · 12/06/2011 16:07

catherine and james (who i thought was called william till i was 19 Blush)
nancy annie and james allan

one grans off her rocker the others a mad cooking alcoholic Grin

didnt know my grandads they buggered off and left my mad grannys :)

Report
Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.