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What were your Great Grandmother’s names?

363 replies

Theoldwoman · 25/06/2022 15:17

Mine were:

Ada Frances
Millicent Margaret

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TFMinx · 25/06/2022 17:15

Evelyn (Eve-lyn)
Annie

I'd love to use Evelyn for our DD, however my DGma is still alive and despised the woman; I don't think she'd ever forgive me and I can't be doing with the drama and fall out.

Derrymum123 · 25/06/2022 17:09

Yekaterina
Rosa
Mary
Siobhan

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Gufo · 25/06/2022 17:08

Lilian and Mary

ThisIsTrifficult · 25/06/2022 17:06

Alice and Janetta

TheWayoftheLeaf · 25/06/2022 17:06

Honestly... I really don't know. Maybe Ada?

Solosunrise · 25/06/2022 17:03

Gladys
Mary
Dorothy
Rosina

This thread has made me tear up a little bit, thinking of all those women who were once so young, and now becoming lost in the mists of time ❤

ElderflowerAccordian · 25/06/2022 17:01

Dulcie and Audrey

theremustonlybeone · 25/06/2022 17:01

Isobel
Christina
Agnes
Ella

HilaryThorpe · 25/06/2022 17:00

Louisa, Mary, Catherine and Annie.

Iloveartichokes · 25/06/2022 16:59

Sarah
Margaret Jane
Ellen
Alicia

imnotwhoyouthinkiam · 25/06/2022 16:56

Doris and Elizabeth on my paternal side. I'll have to ask Mum as I can't access her side of the family tree online to look.

MoniJitchell · 25/06/2022 16:56

2 x Catherine
Annie
Helen

notenoughgin · 25/06/2022 16:55

Ada
Jane
Mary (x2)

Babdoc · 25/06/2022 16:53

Hannah (born in 1858)
Isabella (born in 1855)
Mary Jane (? date, but prob same decade)
Bella (ditto)
My grandmothers were born in the 1880s, and my mother in 1916, the youngest of 8.
It’s quite a thought that only 3 generations link me back to the 1850s!

LaurieFairyCake · 25/06/2022 16:52

Elizabeth Constance Mortimer Frances

Genevieve Violette Millicent

Neither side of my family is posh OR French 🤷‍♀️ and subsequent generations have bog standard first name and one middle name

AmaryIlis · 25/06/2022 16:52

Cecily Helen

Rascalsandradishes · 25/06/2022 16:50

Lilian
Gladys
Mabel
Clara

Octothorpe · 25/06/2022 16:49

Sarah Ellen (known as Nellie)
Elizabeth
Margaret
Another Elizabeth

HundredAcreW00d · 25/06/2022 16:48

Margaret May,
Elizabeth
Gladys and
Voilet May

SummerWillow · 25/06/2022 16:48

Caroline
Minnie
Tabitha
Ellen

StellaOlivetti · 25/06/2022 16:48

Mary Ann and Eleanor
Helene (can’t do accents) and Mary

HobnobsChoice · 25/06/2022 16:47

My great grandmothers were
Grace and Lillian on my mother's side Jane and Mary on my father's side. Born in the 1880s and 1890s

MumbleAlwaysMumble · 25/06/2022 16:43

You know what? I’m realising I have no idea!

One of them died when my grand father was 2yo. I have never heard about my great grand parents on my father’s side.

LittleAtlas · 25/06/2022 16:43

Louisa
Hilda
Elsie
Ella