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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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GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut · 25/06/2022 19:52

Well, I've just spent about an hour on FreeBMD! I thought I didn't know, but once I saw the possibilities I realised I did after all, on DMs side at least.

Dorothy
Rose-Annie
Gladys
Evelyn

Dinosauratemydaffodils · 25/06/2022 19:50

Mary Louisa
Eliza

Rose
Beatrice

My favourite female name from our family tree has to be Ocean though.

BurnDownTheDiscoHangTheDJ · 25/06/2022 19:37

Beatrice Charlotte
Violet Hilda
Elvira Mary
Sadie Hannah

is this for name inspo because if it is, I’m begging you not to bring Elvira back.

JesusSufferingFuck22 · 25/06/2022 19:30

Barbara (babs) and Agnes

Soubriquet · 25/06/2022 19:30

Oh

Edna
and I don’t know the last one. She died before I was born and was rarely mentioned

Soubriquet · 25/06/2022 19:29

Florence Alice
Eva (not sure of middle name)

FelixDoublyDelicious · 25/06/2022 19:28

I have no idea

I am 56, my dad was born in 1911, my mum in 1927

Grandma was Ellen, Grandpa was George

Great Grandparents born in the 1800s 🙀

IdaFlowers · 25/06/2022 19:26

Jane and Alice. Don't know the ones on my dad's side

GylesBrandrethNewJumper · 25/06/2022 19:00

Eliza
Talia

Weepah · 25/06/2022 18:49

Clementine
Katherine
Lucia
Honorine

And I love the name Winifred - so popular at some point and now completely disappeared .

noblegreenk · 25/06/2022 18:49

Doris
Beau
Rhoda
Louise

MinglingFlamingo · 25/06/2022 18:49

Annie
Elizabeth
Nora??
Mary

Celebi · 25/06/2022 18:48

Charlotte
Elizabeth
Catherine
Emily

MrsMigginsCat · 25/06/2022 18:47

Ada
Madeline
Dora
Mary

blisstwins · 25/06/2022 18:40

No idea
viola
Lucia
and no ides

lljkk · 25/06/2022 18:39

Blanche
Ella Louise (actually went by a completely different nickname-style name)
Rachel and...
the other one was named after a fictional character, in a French story published 1795. It's a totally made-up name and yeah I think it could be outing to be specific. This factoid tells me that my GG-grandmother (Sarah,. d. 1907) was a very well-read woman.

CthulhuInDisguise · 25/06/2022 18:38

Gladys
Elizabeth
Sarah
Margaret

SpaceJamtart · 25/06/2022 18:37

Alice
Lily
Lucy
And I think Mary but but she was known as Mimi, not sure if they would have spelled it that way but it was said MeeMee

Moonshine160 · 25/06/2022 18:32

Flossie (maybe nickname for Florence?)
Annie Mary
Betsy May

Not sure of the other.

CaffiSaliMali · 25/06/2022 18:31

Elin Margaret
Margiad Anne
Annie
Gertrude

WhatIsThisPlease · 25/06/2022 18:27

Mary Lizzie (known as Lizzie)
Amy Joyce
Harriet
Not sure about the other one.

newtb · 25/06/2022 18:27

Julia
Fanny
Mary - not sure and don't know thé other

BirdsBirdsBird · 25/06/2022 18:25

Laura
Maud
Katie
Beatrice

WithASpider · 25/06/2022 18:24

Mary Annie
Caroline
Maud
?

MrsOwainGlyndŵr · 25/06/2022 18:24

Theoldwoman · 25/06/2022 15:17

Mine were:

Ada Frances
Millicent Margaret

Surely you had four?

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