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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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ComfyChairPose · 27/06/2022 00:19

One was Jane and one was Eva. On my Dad's side I don't know.

It kind of shocks me that I don't know. It's just my grandparents' parents. Wow.

FilePhoto · 27/06/2022 00:12

Luredbyapomegranate · 27/06/2022 00:07

@IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads

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

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John Tyler, 10th President of the US, was born in 1790. He still has a live grandson. So it's possible to have Great Grandparents born 200 years ago. Probably unusual. But possible.

Luredbyapomegranate · 27/06/2022 00:07

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 26/06/2022 22:15

This thread has inspired me to find out.

Ambrose and Jeanne

Victor and Muriel

George and Christine

No idea about the others. I believe they died when that grandmother was a child, and she was raised by aunts. They would have been born around 200 years ago though!

@IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads

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

Luredbyapomegranate · 27/06/2022 00:05

You must have 4?

Teresa and Nora on one side, no idea on the other

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 26/06/2022 22:15

This thread has inspired me to find out.

Ambrose and Jeanne

Victor and Muriel

George and Christine

No idea about the others. I believe they died when that grandmother was a child, and she was raised by aunts. They would have been born around 200 years ago though!

BinBandit · 26/06/2022 19:29

DH
Margaret x 2
Annie
Elizabeth

BinBandit · 26/06/2022 19:24

Henrietta
Isabella
Jessie Ann
Elizabeth

Fitterbyfifty · 26/06/2022 16:17

Theoldwoman · 26/06/2022 15:22

Such a blonde moment last night. I blame having a very ill child in hospital.

so my other two great grandmothers names were:

Mary Agnes
Margaret Rankine

Love reading all those who have replied. I think names back then were so elegant.

Sorry to hear this - hope they recover soon!

Ellmau · 26/06/2022 16:11

Kathleen, Florence, Alice and Edith.

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Theoldwoman · 26/06/2022 15:22

Such a blonde moment last night. I blame having a very ill child in hospital.

so my other two great grandmothers names were:

Mary Agnes
Margaret Rankine

Love reading all those who have replied. I think names back then were so elegant.

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MooseBreath · 26/06/2022 09:16

Molly
Thelma
Annie
Mary

LBF2020 · 26/06/2022 08:12

Rose and Rosalie on my maternal side
Florence and ? on paternal side. My grandfather was adopted so I am unsure of his mother's name.

Captaindaddydog · 26/06/2022 07:45

Dh's are Mary, Mary, Martha and Jane. They all died before he was born but he has an aunt who is nearly 100 who can remember one of them who was born around 1845.

Captaindaddydog · 26/06/2022 07:28

Caroline, Mary, Annie and Daisy. Born between 1880 and 1900

Ouchmytoe100 · 26/06/2022 07:11

Dorothy May and Nancy May

Twoshoesnewshoes · 26/06/2022 00:30

Alice x2
Marthe (French)

Verbena87 · 25/06/2022 23:25

Connie
Gladys
Ivy
Shiela

Thinkingblonde · 25/06/2022 23:23

My paternal grandmother was Sarah Ann.1875 -1956. Her mother was Mary Anne. 1854 1940 Hers was Charlotte.1834-1880. These three women were the wives of ‘Navvies’ , men working on digging canals and later working on the new fangled railway, They lived in Navvie encampments, and went where the work was. The first five of my grandmother children were born in different parts of the country, two in Workhouse infirmaries. The camps were temporary accommodation provided by the employers ,some were like small towns with a chapel, a school, shops, or a weekly market would be held, there was always an ale house,. Few of the camps survived, once the job was finished they’d all move on to the next one.
Ifnwas a hard life and I’m full of admiration and a lot of pride in my ancestors fortitude and grit, I look at railway via ducts and bridges and think my grandad laid many of those bricks.

netto · 25/06/2022 23:09

Paternal - Rachel and Isabella
Maternal - Elizabeth and Elizabeth

Thinkingblonde · 25/06/2022 22:53

Mary Ann,
Elizabeth
Charlotte.
Jane Ann

yikesanotherbooboo · 25/06/2022 22:52

Having a go at gg gms
Eliza
Emma
Anastasia
Maria Theresa
Bridget
Elizabeth
Emma Emilia
? Possibly Honor
These women were born between 1820 and 1840
In rural Somerset
Rural Ireland
India and Inner London
The lives they led ....

NessieMcNessface · 25/06/2022 22:51

Eva and Margaret

Mumofgirls2017 · 25/06/2022 22:46

Ida, Minnie, Harriet, Ada

TheSmallAssassin · 25/06/2022 22:37

Edith
Stella
Agnes
Blanche

SnottyLottie · 25/06/2022 22:33

Lillian
Mary
Ellen
Henrietta