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Old man names needed! What was your Grandfather called?

431 replies

MinkyBorage · 06/12/2008 20:36

I know there have been threads about this, but I can't find any for some reason.
At the moment I'm stuck on Stanley, but DH gone off it a bit because my bro was taking the piss about Flat Stanley.
Any ideas would be very gratefully received.

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Anna8888 · 07/12/2008 11:00

Euan
Edward
Cecil
Brian

VirginBoffinMum · 07/12/2008 10:56

More old man names in my family! Off the top of my head.

Gottfried
Gottlieb
Joseph
Frederick
Ernst
Dieter
Gordon
William
Horace
Raymond
Ma urice

Xavielli · 07/12/2008 10:39

William and John.

Nyx · 07/12/2008 10:39

Iain/John (one being Gaelic for the other, so both were used!) and Michael

Gorionine · 07/12/2008 10:34

Arthur

bellabelly · 07/12/2008 10:34

Eric and Roy.

FruitynNutty · 07/12/2008 10:31

Aubrey

NorbertDentressangle · 07/12/2008 10:30

Albert and Frederick

Other old man names in the family that I can think of include Alwyn, Bill/William (lots of them), Harry/Harold, and...strangley enough, as I presumed it was a modern day name until my Mum told me about him...Harley

FrannyandZooey · 07/12/2008 10:29

Sydney
Edmund and Blanche (grandma) on dp's side - classy

nannyinbristol · 07/12/2008 10:25

Old men in my family - Bernard, Norbert, Eugene, Mick, Victor.

BabyBaby123 · 07/12/2008 10:23

old men in my family -

Dennis, Kenneth, Peter, Thomas, Fred, Jim, Percy....

VirginBoffinMum · 07/12/2008 10:18

Albert and Paul

cluelessnchaos · 07/12/2008 10:17

Mine were James and Donald,

mellyonion · 07/12/2008 10:16

my grampi was hayden conrad..his brother was maxamillien.(sp?)

my grampa who died this week was ben/benjamin....he was 95.

his brothers were ieuan, jim, victor, kenneth and i can't remamber the others

WhereTheWildThingsWere · 07/12/2008 10:14

Eric and Horace

dizzyjingles · 07/12/2008 10:11

george, robert and John - can't remember Dh's other one sorry!

MegSophandEmma · 07/12/2008 10:09

Albert and John

My dad is Douglas which is quite and old man name.

AnAngelWithin · 07/12/2008 10:08

Horace
Norman

eemie · 07/12/2008 10:06
  1. Alexander
  2. Robert John
Jenbot · 07/12/2008 10:04

Austin and Walter.

moshie · 07/12/2008 10:03

haven't seen these yet:

Trevor and Ivor

BikeRunSki · 07/12/2008 09:43

Already done my grandad's but their middle names were Martin, Victor and Ambrose.

DH's grandads were Samuel (as is DS) and Frederick

frazzledoldbag34 · 07/12/2008 09:30

Joseph
John
Both quite tame but nice I'd say!

Umlellala · 07/12/2008 09:11

I love Stanley and Eric.

My grandad was Cyril... can't see it making acomeback. Dad is Derek, hmmm, possibly.

Lemontart · 07/12/2008 09:01

Ronald Good old McDonald has held me back from adding it to my consideration list!!

Ernie (Muppets and Mr Wise have put me off this one too!)

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