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What were your great grandfathers called?

235 replies

salharg · 25/06/2022 19:25

Following on from the grandmother thread, also looking for an old fashioned name for DS

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rhowton · 25/06/2022 19:41

Frank, Bramble, John & Charles

SusieSimpleman · 25/06/2022 19:40

George
Wilfred
Harold
Terrence

KohlaParasaurus · 25/06/2022 19:38

The three of mine that I know of were James, John and Robert.

Wigeon · 25/06/2022 19:36

Serge (Sergei) and Herbert on one side. Not sure about the other side.

newtb · 25/06/2022 19:36

Thomas
Herbert
George
William

All born around 1850ish

PeppaPigIsBacon · 25/06/2022 19:36

Ernest
Frederick
William x2

JesusSufferingFuck22 · 25/06/2022 19:35

Robert and John. Pretty plain and boring really.
I have a gggg grandfather and his father called Zerrubbabel. No idea how working class men in Scotland ended up with that name.

PlattyJubes · 25/06/2022 19:34

William
John
Edmund
Alfred

So not that unusual today really given they were all born in the 1880s.

cecinestpasunepipe · 25/06/2022 19:32

Claude!!

Squashedraddish · 25/06/2022 19:28

I only know one and it was Vivian. Apparently he hated it according to my nan