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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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ItsSnowJokes · 26/06/2022 07:21

Archibald

Sunflowerdroop · 26/06/2022 07:20

William, Frederick, Samuel and John

sanityisamyth · 26/06/2022 07:13

No idea!

Ouchmytoe100 · 26/06/2022 07:10

Robert and Frederick

FindingMeno · 26/06/2022 06:21

One was Ezekiel but I have no idea with the others.

Loulou1712 · 26/06/2022 05:54

George
John
Wilfred
Unsure on the 4th

Interestingly we've chosen wilfred (wilf) for ds1 due later this year before knowing of the family connection.

VivienneDelacroix · 26/06/2022 05:49

All four of mine were called William!
Born around 1890s.

BasiliskStare · 26/06/2022 04:48

Francis and Charles

Longt · 26/06/2022 04:42

William in my mum’s mum’s side.
realised I don’t actually know any of the others !

GarethKeenan · 26/06/2022 04:34

Joseph
Arthur
Thomas
Edward

Jeelypieces20storeys · 26/06/2022 00:50

Terence, Francis, Thomas & Arthur

kissmelittleass · 26/06/2022 00:41

Eugene and Vincent

countvoncount · 26/06/2022 00:24

I love these names
Mine were Joseph and Alfredo
I had my own Joseph 20 something years ago

bridgetreilly · 26/06/2022 00:22

Sidney, William, Thomas, not sure.

Violinist64 · 26/06/2022 00:20

I only know one of my great grandfather’s names - William - but my grandfathers were both born before the First World War and were Dennis and Eric; both extremely old fashioned names. Are they old fashioned enough for you?

QueenB5 · 26/06/2022 00:14

William and George on my Mum’s side, I don’t know my Dad’s, fairly common, but I did have a great great uncle Absalum who I remember visiting as a child.

Octothorpe · 25/06/2022 23:28

James
George
Edward
Thomas

About as solid and classic as you can get. One Irish, one Scottish, one with Welsh links and one English.

Thegingerpig · 25/06/2022 23:21

Charles
Wilfred
Alfred
Thomas

CPL593H · 25/06/2022 23:21

A generation back, one GG grandfather was from a family that had the most sonorous Biblical names. The boys were (a selection, there were lots) Nehemiah/Ezekiel/Jesse/Jeremiah/Ham/Samson/Naphtali. The girls were all things like Eliza and Jane.

Not chapel and most certainly not teetotal, from what I've heard.

yikesanotherbooboo · 25/06/2022 23:20

Frederick
Patrick John
Arthur Howard
Owen

PiggyPlumPie · 25/06/2022 23:15

George
Nicholas
Harry
Unknown

MinglingFlamingo · 25/06/2022 23:13

Fred not frank

MinglingFlamingo · 25/06/2022 23:13

Frank
Albert possibly x2

Threeboysandadog · 25/06/2022 23:09

One of my GG Grandfathers was Cornelius

AssignedSlytherinAtBirth · 25/06/2022 23:00

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.

It's in the Bible. That's where they would've got it from. But the parents could've chosen Adam or Matthew, couldn't they?!

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