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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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scaredymcnamechange · 14/08/2012 21:11

Mary andAlice

mumofjust1 · 14/08/2012 21:08

Maternal gm - Hanna, but always called Hanka
Paternal gm -Grace - but she disowned my brother and I when my Dad died 7 years ago

CatPower · 14/08/2012 21:03

Doris and Flora.

NeverKnowinglyUnderstood · 14/08/2012 20:59

just remembered, granny's best friends were called Hetty & Margo

FoofyShmooffer · 14/08/2012 20:58

Well my Grandmothers were both called Mary which is DDs middle name.

Gt Grandmothers? Hmm.

Elizabeth and Margaret.
Emma and ?

None hugely old fashioned actually.

An0therName · 14/08/2012 20:46

Margaret and Enid - I really like Enid - and if we had a DD would have like to have used it - but my DH veoted it

VagolaJahooli · 14/08/2012 20:42

Marion & Neeta

iheartmycat · 14/08/2012 20:39

Maggie and Maude

G-grandmothers Margaret, Catherine, Sarah and Alice

Springforward · 14/08/2012 20:38

Kathleen and Kathleen.

iknowwho · 14/08/2012 20:38

Johanna (known as Josie)
Marjorie

LeonoraT · 14/08/2012 20:38

Great Grandmothers were: Filomena, Rosa, Elizabeth (Sissy) and Eleanor.

DontstepontheMomeRaths · 14/08/2012 20:38

Gladys Evelyn Rebecca was my Mum's side,. I could never use Gladys. It reminds me of Phoebe's awful picture in Friends Grin But I used her middle names for DD.

Mabel was my Dad's side.

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LeonoraT · 14/08/2012 20:36

Mafalda Christina, whose sisters were called Edie, May, Sadie and Rita. My other grandmother is 91 and is called Dorothy Mary.

DH's grandmothers were Dorothy Cynthia Monica and Joan.

My daughter is called Lena Emilia, I love old lady names!

Clawdy · 14/08/2012 20:36

One was Rose Ann Philomena. The other was simply May. She was left in the workhouse by her mother and named after the month she was born in.

fanoftheinvisibleman · 14/08/2012 20:36

Dorothy (Dotty) and Pauline.

The great grandmas I know of were Ethel and Louisa.

edam · 14/08/2012 20:35

Dorothy and Nelly

JoInScotland · 14/08/2012 20:35

Emily and Mary

TobyLerone · 14/08/2012 20:34

Esme and Barbara.

DD is Esme.

DoIgetastickerforthat · 14/08/2012 20:34

Katherine (Katie) and Jane.

Portia22 · 14/08/2012 20:34

Great grandmother - Lily
Grandmothers - Doris and Rebecca - known as Betty.
My husband had a Grandma Kitty - which is why we chose that for our little girl.

spamm · 14/08/2012 20:32

Grandmothers: Liliana and Margaret
Great Grandmothers: Gina, Paola, Elizabeth
Great Aunt: Nyasa

Ponders · 14/08/2012 20:32

Charlotte & Bridget; but Bridget didn't want to be Irish, & became known as Bertha instead

HollyGoHeavily · 14/08/2012 20:30

Joyce and Lena

Moocherbot · 14/08/2012 20:28

Mary and wait-for-it...Euphemia. Oh yes. Luckily known by a middle name or I would have got that one handed down. Phew.