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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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GruffVoiceDownTheChimney · 15/08/2012 06:59

Eileen, Hannah, Ellen, Ada, Alice, Sarah, gwen, Rita

SilverSky · 15/08/2012 04:05

Jean
Isobel

Herrena · 15/08/2012 04:02

Mum's side: Gwenfil Maud

Dad's side: Shufika

DH had a selection of aunts whose names included Christabel, Tabitha. Dilys and Eluned :)

thundernlightning · 15/08/2012 02:51

Idena and Kathleen. One of the G-grans was Georgina, have forgotten the other. Blush

NotEmpressOf7AnythingsNo · 15/08/2012 01:26

Great grans were Philomena, Alice, Maria & Anne.

MeDented · 15/08/2012 01:12

Edna and Lucy

PilgrimSoul · 15/08/2012 00:58

Anasatia (Annie) and Sarah.

adoremyfamily · 15/08/2012 00:54

Both called Lily.

HairyToedHopSkipAndJumpIt · 15/08/2012 00:52

My grandmothers were Molly and Edith.

Great Grans were
Amelia
Hephzibah Annie(Known as Nancy)
Sarah Ann (Annie)
Eliza Ellen (Nellie)

DH's were Bessie and Violet
Great grandmothers:
Lily
Jane
Annie
Amelia

TwoIfBySea · 15/08/2012 00:36

Great-grandmothers - Susan, Letitia, Mary and Rebecca (Ruby - trendsetter in the early 1900s even if she was a wicked old devil!) Not very Scottish really.

Grandmothers - Elizabeth (never shortened to a nickname) and Rebecca (known as Ruby like her mother and my aunt).

Really like Amelia though, lovely name.

headfairy · 14/08/2012 23:36

Jacqueline (my mums mum) and Natalina (my dads mum)

No idea what ggms were called though.

Grandfathers were Gaston (mums) and Gino (dads)

I love Gino and wanted it for ds but dh said it would cause an International Incident Of Epic Proportions if we used my grandfathers name and not dh's grandfathers name (dh didn't like his grandfathers name - Enrico - so didn't want it as a middle name either. FiL probably wouldn't have accepted us using it as "just" a middle name either but he's a twat )

Selks · 14/08/2012 23:30

Hilda and Doris Grin

QOD · 14/08/2012 23:26

Bertha and Renee

pegster · 14/08/2012 23:24

Eluned (welsh) & Margaret

louisianablue2000 · 14/08/2012 23:22

We've used two of the four greatgrandmother names already: Alexandra, Margaret, Elizabeth and Carmen (the last one was Spanish).

KenDoddsDadsDog · 14/08/2012 23:19

Maria and Hilda

NormanTheForeman · 14/08/2012 23:18

Grandmothers - Edith and Nana
Great Aunts - Mabel (known as May), Gertrude, Melita (known as Millie), Gladys, Hylda, Edith, Kate, Alice, Lily
Great grandmothers - Eliza, Julia, Sarah, Mary

Grandfathers - John and George
Great Uncles - Harold, Harold, Owen, Herbert, Oswald, Arthur, Andrew, Thomas, Frederick, Francis
Great grandfathers - Henry, Harry, Andrew, Thomas

Luckystar96 · 14/08/2012 23:07

Audrey and Dacia!

Claire2009 · 14/08/2012 23:02

Dorothy & Evelyn
Great aunts - Kathleen (kit) & Ethel
My Mum & Dad - Wendy & Ralph

GsyPotatoPieEyed · 14/08/2012 22:57

Wilma and Joyce Phoebe and my great aunt Lillian
My middle name Is Joy after my GM and my DD is named Phoebe Lily.

Sarahplane · 14/08/2012 22:42

Kathleen and Mary

MarjorieAntrobus · 14/08/2012 22:35

Everilda and Constance.

TheOriginalNutcracker · 14/08/2012 22:33

Rose and Joan. Great gm was Rose too.

notjustamummythankyou · 14/08/2012 22:31

Grandmothers: Isobel and Grace
Great Grandmothers (only know three): Ellen, May and Postumia (meaning that her father died before she was born).

BigRedIndiaRubberBall · 14/08/2012 22:21

Nancy and Nona.

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