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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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CarriMarie · 14/08/2012 20:27

Elizabeth Louisa (known as Bessie) and May Dorothy.

Great grandma's were Sabina Elizabeth, Katie and Clara.

Heifer · 14/08/2012 20:27

Ethel - no thanks!
Beatrice - um, no,

NotAChocolateRaisin · 14/08/2012 20:26

I want to meet someone called Cinderella!

JessMummyTo3Boys · 14/08/2012 20:26

Violet and Josephine, I love the oldies - my 3 boys are called Albert, Ernie and Sidney

NotAChocolateRaisin · 14/08/2012 20:26

Betty and when I changed my name I added Betty as a middle name and now that's all I get called at work! I love it!

Mama1980 · 14/08/2012 20:25

My grandmothers were Doris and ivy. Great grandmothers were Rosetta, priscilla, elizabeth and another Rossetta. One generation further back and Priscillas mum was cinderella Hmm

dixiechick1975 · 14/08/2012 20:22

Evelyn and Marjorie

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OlympiaMumsnet · 14/08/2012 20:22

Veronica and Mollie

clattypatty · 14/08/2012 20:14

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ajandjjmum · 14/08/2012 20:07

Annie and Elizabeth

Frikadellen · 14/08/2012 20:06

Maternal grandmother Marie
Paternal grandmother Petra
Step Grandmother Edith

dh's

Maternal grandmother Winnie
Paternal gradnmother Minnie
(great story from MIL of when SIL was born - their 2nd- She was asked "Well will you do like with ds1 where you named after the grandfathers?" She replied" Well what one would you rather? Minnie Winnie or Winnie Minnie?" (Sil is Jacqueline Grin)

McPhee · 14/08/2012 20:05

Dorothy and Margery

teahouse · 14/08/2012 20:04

Elderly relatives include:-
Elsie
Mable
Queen (yes really)

travailtotravel · 14/08/2012 20:03

Agnes (Maternal) and Winnifred - Winnie (Paternal).

Quite like Winnie as a name (but for the obvious poo connotations for a child), but have never met any other child named Agnes ...

TheWalkingDead · 14/08/2012 20:03

Iva and Avril

NoWayNoHow · 14/08/2012 20:02

I also had great aunts, and they were Kay, Dorothy, May and Rosemary.

NoWayNoHow · 14/08/2012 20:00

My grandmothers are/were Barbara and Peggy (not short for Margaret, but a given name).

My father was adopted, and his birth mother was Rosalie.

My great-grandmothers (that I know of) were Bertha, Sarah and Ruth.

drummerswife · 14/08/2012 19:59

mine were rachel and may
dh's were june and joan

ekupeg · 14/08/2012 19:58

Irene

Elsie

SkiBumMum · 14/08/2012 19:56

Renee (pn Ree-knee) and Dorothy Eleanor

popsicle1984 · 14/08/2012 19:55

Anunziata and Hedwig. I win.

BehindLaneNumberNine · 14/08/2012 19:54

Am Dutch, so Dutch grandmothers.
Mine were Gerda and Henrietta.

WhereAreMyShoes · 14/08/2012 19:53

Mum's mum is Rene, and her mum, my great granny, Eleanor, known as Ella.

Dad's mum was Margaret, known as Marge, I think.

Bellakins · 14/08/2012 19:52

Grace and Bessie

SuperB0F · 14/08/2012 19:48

Theresa and Amelia.

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