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What were your grandmothers called?

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wildpoppy · 14/08/2012 10:47

I think I like old fashioned names - anyone care to share what their grandmothers/great-grandmothers were called.

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blondieminx · 02/09/2012 09:19

Beatrice

prelim29 · 02/09/2012 09:16

Peggy (not shortened - this is the name she was christened with).
Hilda

Peggy's mother was Olive.
Hilda's mother was Lily.

All lovely names.

Yika · 01/09/2012 20:35

Margaret and Hilda.

2 of my GGMs were Helena (nn Nelly) and Alice.

Great aunts: Jean (also my middle name), Cherry, Molly and another Nellie, always known as Nan.

kawaii · 01/09/2012 19:33

Margaret which is due a come back and Maureen which is not.

biffnbuster · 01/09/2012 19:27

Margaret known as Meg and Kathleen known as Kate and a great auntie Christina known as Tina

cierzo · 01/09/2012 09:00

Grandmothers were Felisa and Julia Rosa.

Flaneuse · 27/08/2012 20:10

Margaret and Greta, and great aunt Williamina (which I can't see making a comeback any time soon!).

IAmSheWhoMustBeObeyed · 27/08/2012 20:06

Nellie and Mary
Ggm on mothers side- Helen as was gggm.
One ggggm was called Grietje

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Emphaticmaybe · 27/08/2012 19:45

GMs - Alice and Margery.
GGMs - Beatrice, Margaret, Jessie and Kitty.

Giddypants · 27/08/2012 19:38

Edith Caroline and Louisa primrose

EmptyCrispPackets · 27/08/2012 19:24

Doreen and Florence.

This baby may be a Florence.

PavlovtheCat · 27/08/2012 13:55

Daisy. Not sure about on my fathers's side.

Safire · 27/08/2012 13:53

Grandmothers and great aunts on both sides - Margaret, Hannah, Alice, Justina, Elizabeth, Theresa, Ophelia

BlameThePixies · 26/08/2012 22:37

Jessie Winifred
(with twin sisters Ivy & Violet)

Proper name Pauline but always known as Paul :)
(sisters Bett, Bar, Jean, Pam, Eve)

MerylStrop · 26/08/2012 22:08

Mary and Ada Gertrude
DD has DH's granny's name as her middle name Irene (pron. Eye-reenie) which I love

MrsTomHardy · 26/08/2012 22:04

Edith and Phyllis

CouthyMow · 26/08/2012 21:59

Great Aunt Olive. Can't remember my great grandma's names - they all died either before I was born, not long after, and I only knew the remaining one as 'Gramma'!

CouthyMow · 26/08/2012 21:57

Moira and Brenda. And both HATE their names!

frutilla · 26/08/2012 21:45

Ida Mary and Beatrice nn Betty

Spice17 · 26/08/2012 21:25

Had to post on this - my gran was called Vilma.

I bet no one else has a relation called that, never heard anyone else called it (and she wasn't German or anything - know it sounds a bit like it is)

goingtoexplodesoon · 26/08/2012 17:47

Miriam (I think it would fit a litte girl too, it's a very sweet name), middle name being Gladys, and Alice, middle name being Lilith. However, the elderly people I know with nice old names include Henrietta, Hepzibah, Evelyn, Rowena, Wendoline, Norma, Esther, Elspeth, Ruth, Verity and Florence.

freerangelady · 21/08/2012 19:29

My granny was one of eight; they were in order:
Marjorie
Dorothy (known as dot)
Maud
Norma
Lorna (norma and Lorna were twins!)
Mabel
Amy

Annoyingly I can't remember the last one!

badtime · 21/08/2012 17:31

Great aunts etc: Eva, Nelly, Mabel, Margaret, Ella, Meta (pronounced Meat-a). Many more I can't remember.

Binfullofmaggotsonthe45 · 21/08/2012 17:31

Both called Betty!