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What was your Grandad's name?

341 replies

RosieLemonade · 28/11/2021 17:04

I had Frank. DH had Peter and John.

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Tulips21 · 28/11/2021 21:41

@Shimmyshimmycocobop

Malcolm and John
same!!!
ofwarren · 28/11/2021 21:41

John and Harold

ethelredonagoodday · 28/11/2021 21:36

Walter and Leonard

howdidigettobe50something · 28/11/2021 21:35

Fred and Raymond

CoverYourselfInChocolateGlory · 28/11/2021 21:34

Alfred and William. DH had a Frank, not sure about the other one. My grandfathers were both known by an abbreviated form of their last names, rather than their first names, so I grew up not knowing their names. Apparently quite common in those days.

KnottyKnitting · 28/11/2021 21:29

Gilbert - lovely caring man!
Francis ( AKA Frank) but he was an abusive wife beater so don't like that one!

ladygindiva · 28/11/2021 21:00

James and Douglas
I would have been James Douglas if a boy apparently.

pompomsgalore · 28/11/2021 20:58

Larry

onlyreadingneverposting8 · 28/11/2021 20:55

Dh's were Albert and Dennis

onlyreadingneverposting8 · 28/11/2021 20:54

George on one side, Zenon on the other.

Greyhedge · 28/11/2021 20:51

Vincent and Douglas

ghislaine · 28/11/2021 20:48

@drinkingwineoutofamug

Eric and Oswald
I don’t think I have ever met another grandchild of an Oswald! Mine was known as Oz.
DarkChic · 28/11/2021 20:39

Patrick and Elias

PanicBuyingSprouts · 28/11/2021 20:32

Mine were John and Fred.

DH had Walter and Austin

helly29 · 28/11/2021 20:32

William (Bill) and Henry (Harry)

rooarsome · 28/11/2021 20:32

Frank and Tom

Violinist64 · 28/11/2021 20:31

Dennis Bernard and Eric. None of the names made it onto the shortlist for my own sons.

JenniferWooley · 28/11/2021 20:28

Abraham & Gideon

TheBullfinch · 28/11/2021 20:27

RosieLemonade

gaslady14

Why these threads asking for random information confused

Because I'm looking for boy's names? Plenty of people seemed to have enjoyed answering.

I think it's the general lack of any interaction whatsoever that prompts people to question it OP. It looks like data harvesting.

vitta · 28/11/2021 20:26

John and Martin

catchingzzzeds · 28/11/2021 20:26

Lawrence (Laurie) and George

Tigger85 · 28/11/2021 20:22

Brian and James

72WayTooCool · 28/11/2021 20:22

Ralph and Keith

Frederica852 · 28/11/2021 20:17

Victor

OldTinHat · 28/11/2021 20:17

Dennis

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