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What were your Great Grandmother’s names?

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Theoldwoman · 25/06/2022 15:17

Mine were:

Ada Frances
Millicent Margaret

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DisplayPurposesOnly · 25/06/2022 15:49

Clara
Dinah
Kate
Mary Ann

theworldsgonefeckingmad · 25/06/2022 15:49

Hannah
Annie
Lily
Norah

Squashedraddish · 25/06/2022 15:48

Gwen
Annie
Elizabeth
Edith

SpiderinaWingMirror · 25/06/2022 15:48

Ada
Ada
Winifred
Jane

LesLavandes · 25/06/2022 15:47

Edith

Muriel

mathanxiety · 25/06/2022 15:46

Bridget x 2
Mary Jane
?

MayBeee · 25/06/2022 15:46

Elizabeth
Ruth Theresa Ann
Minnie Marian Elsie
Emma Ada Amelia

wwyd2021medicine · 25/06/2022 15:45

Clarissa
Georgina

GreenWhiteViolet · 25/06/2022 15:43

Mary x2
Alice
Catharine

WestHamAreMassive · 25/06/2022 15:43

Violet Adelaide (Ada)
Millicent
Florence Adelaide
Clementine

mathanxiety · 25/06/2022 15:42

@Theoldwoman
You have two sets of grandparents and four sets of great grandparents (four great grandmothers, which is what you asked for).

RewildingAmbridge · 25/06/2022 15:41

One was Nell (Eleanor) , one was Lillian (Lil) no idea about the others on my dad's side my paternal grandparents both died when I was young, they had my dad late so great grandparents were long gone.
Grandmothers Irene and Violet , step grandmother Frances (but closer than the other two regardless of blood)
Grandfathers Ernest and George, great grandfathers only know of two both called William one maternal one paternal

wonderstuff · 25/06/2022 15:41

@cafenoirbiscuit thats gorgeous! Is there a story of why?

lanbro · 25/06/2022 15:41

@Theoldwoman each of your parents would normally have 2 grandmas so you should have 4 great grandmas

wonderstuff · 25/06/2022 15:40

Nellie (Elenor) and Winifred, don’t know the others.
You have 2 grandmothers and 4 great grandmothers.

DorritLittle · 25/06/2022 15:40

Emma, Sarah, Mary, Eliza.

BonnyAndBlythe · 25/06/2022 15:40

Violet
Mary
Mariah
Anne

lanbro · 25/06/2022 15:39

Wahlberg
Bertha
Cecelia
??

elp30 · 25/06/2022 15:39

Sorry, posted too soon.

If I barely knew information about my grandparents, my great grandparents are a bigger mystery.

My maternal grandparents were orphaned at a young age, under five, I believe. My paternal grandparents hardly ever spoke of their parents.
My father didn't know his grandparents.

cafenoirbiscuit · 25/06/2022 15:38

I had a great great grandmother who was named Happy 😃

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Theoldwoman · 25/06/2022 15:38

Fitterbyfifty · 25/06/2022 15:24

Nice names - surely you have 4 though?

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It’s late here and I’m pretty tired, but I only have 2 ?

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AllThingsServeTheBeam · 25/06/2022 15:37

Beatrice, Mary, Constance and I don't know the other

waltzingparrot · 25/06/2022 15:37

Sarah Emily
Harriet

elp30 · 25/06/2022 15:36

I have absolutely no idea. My grandparents were born from 1889 to 1910. I barely knew their first names. They were born in a different country, at home, so their records don't exist.

MolliciousIntent · 25/06/2022 15:35

Flora, Leticia, Ena (tho everyone called her Nimmie) and Winifred.