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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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Create10 · 28/01/2023 00:00

*greatgrandparent

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Luredbyapomegranate · 27/06/2022 00:07

@IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads

How were they born 200 years ago?!?! how old are you?!

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My oldest great grandparents was born in 1868. When I'm in my 70s (which many Mumsnet users are) they'll have been born 200 years ago. It's not that unusual or surprising.

Create10 · 27/01/2023 23:55

Hannah, Margaret, Elizabeth and Dorothy.

SemperIdem · 27/01/2023 23:35

Florence
Anne
Elen
Rebecca

UnicornRainbowSky · 27/01/2023 22:52

I only know the name of one but that one is quite something: Kreszenz
To be pronounced in a German accent

BigPurpleArm · 27/01/2023 19:37

Rowena
Charlotte
Aimee
Mabel

Xenia · 27/01/2023 19:35

Ann Jane
Mary Ann
Mary
Mary

Wow, that's boring. They were born from 1839 to 1876.

Utterlyexhausted · 27/01/2023 19:33

Agnes Antoinette
Margaret

mrsflurph · 27/01/2023 19:31

Mollie (Mary)
Bertha
Joan
Constance

LittleCactus · 27/01/2023 18:07

Alice, Joan, Mabel and I don't know the other one!

TheIsaacs · 27/01/2023 14:17

Edith
Ellen
Amy
Maud

pairofrollerskates · 27/01/2023 13:39

Mary Mary Mary Mary!

MrsAvocet · 26/01/2023 21:54

Eva, Alice and two Sarahs.

alrightbab · 26/01/2023 21:37

Love this thread!

Louisa, Florence, Sarah and ?

RustyBear · 26/01/2023 13:23

Jane
Sarah Ann
Ann Maria
Emily Frances

YetMoreNewBeginnings · 26/01/2023 07:44

Rose Ann
Margaret Isabelle (known as Peg)
Lizzy (amusingly she called herself Elizabeth in later life but was actually Lizzy on her BC).
Ellen Mary Jane (known as Minnie for some reason)

Veescience · 26/01/2023 06:28

Wilhimina, Annie, Margaret, Margaret

mauvish · 25/01/2023 19:16

Harriet
Eveline
Mary Elizabeth
Hannah

I like all those; the only one I probably wouldn't give a child now is Mary Elizabeth because she'd be just Mary in everyday use, and to my ear it needs the Elizabeth to pretty it up.

Carryonmarion · 25/01/2023 17:45

Mary Jane
Mariah
Ellen
?

Richelieu · 25/01/2023 12:22

Elizabeth Ellen
Elizabeth
Mary
Sarah Ellen (known as Nelly)

Three were born around 1860 but one (Mary) is a weird outlier and was born in 1845, as far as I can tell from family research. She and her husband had a very large family, my paternal grandmother was the youngest, and she went on to have a similarly large family, of which my father was the youngest. He married in his 30s too. I’m 63 and it feels odd to have a g-grandmother born almost 180 years ago.

caringcarer · 22/01/2023 22:26

Caroline
Mary
Alice Maud Mary
Francis Ellen

greatpotential · 22/01/2023 22:25

Dorothy
Mabel
Frances
Blanche

Onesmallstepatatime · 22/01/2023 22:20

Dorothy
Margaret
Agnes
?????

HoboHippo · 22/01/2023 22:16

GG were Amelia, Mary, Sarah Ann, Isabella, Annie, Elizabeth, Emma, Emma

ghislaine · 22/01/2023 22:04

Margaret Ann
Eleanor May
Emma Agnes
Catherine May

All very classic. I knew Eleanor, she died aged about 92 when I was 11.

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