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Granny/Grandad names - for inspiration...

136 replies

sunchild77 · 26/06/2010 17:09

I quite like the trend for old names at the moment, So Just a quick survey : What where your grandparents names?

Me:-Robert
Robert Alexander
Gladys Margaret
Jeannie

DH - Murdoch
Sidney
Dorothy Madeline
Helen

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kveta · 28/06/2010 11:05

Me -
William & Ruby
William & Eileen

DP -
Jaroslav & don't know his grandma (his grandfather, great grandfather and great great grandfather were Jaroslav too)
Alois & Aloiska

CuppaTeaJanice · 28/06/2010 10:57

Marjorie & Bertram
Dorothy & Robert

iskra · 28/06/2010 10:39

Mary & Harry
Audrey & Arthur

Sybil & Thomas (Tommy)
Henry (Harry) & Dorothy

my great grandparents were
Marie & Humphrey
Barnes & Molly
Elizabeth & George
Arthur & Mary

Galena · 28/06/2010 09:53

Lottie Bettine
Victor Alfred
Hannah
Bernhard

gorionine · 28/06/2010 07:15

Lina
Lucette
Emily

Leardo (Le-ar-do)
Aime (with an accent on the "e")
Arthur

ben5 · 28/06/2010 07:13

mary both sides
paul
john
edward

angel2001 · 28/06/2010 07:10

maura maud
harold
rose
jean
phil

hubbys nan was alice

fortyplus · 28/06/2010 00:18

Hilda and Harold
May and John

stressheaderic · 28/06/2010 00:00

John and Margaret
Charles and Audrey

Bit boring, really....

However - the lovely elderly couple who used to live in our house before us were called Eva and Ted.

They asked if we wanted some of the furniture leaving, as as we were skint and had barely anything between us, we were most grateful. So we inherited their rather fetching dusky pink 3-piece suite.... When we went to get rid of it, I found a small card down the back of it, with a poem on, called "Recipe for a happy home", and a handwritten note on the back saying "To Eva and Ted, Much love in your new home xxx". It must have gone back to the 1950s. I like to think of them as my sort-of guardian grandparents (they've both passed away now) and will use their names in some form for future DCs.

laward · 27/06/2010 23:57

Me

Briget (Bridie)
John (Jack)

Anne (Annie)
Anthony

DH

Zarifeh (Cute in Arabic)
Youssef (Joseph in Arabic)

Elias
Bahia (In Arabic this means beautiful in a regal way)

DH is Lebanese Maronite Christian & I have an Irish background

muminthecity · 27/06/2010 23:43

Catherine Dolores (known as Dolores)
Joyce
Sean
William

clemettethedropout · 27/06/2010 23:41

Elizabeth (Betty)
Stephen
Gordon
Wilhelmina

itstimmytime · 27/06/2010 23:25

Isobel
Thomas
Helen
Angus

aspoonfulofsugar · 27/06/2010 23:19

Queenie
Alfred

Esther Hetty (one is indeed a diminutive of the other )
Sidney
Joseph (divorced)

Some of the old names about at the moment are gorgeous, I love

Evie
Evelyn
Dorothy
Edith (for Edie/Eade)

Eskarina · 27/06/2010 21:19

ME
Margaret (Molly) and Walter
Mary and James

DH
Joy and Harold
Stanley and Vivienne

Pingpong · 27/06/2010 18:47

Colin and Anne
Charles and Hughene

Grace and Frederick
Dorothy and Thomas

nelly83 · 27/06/2010 18:36

Frances Bernadette
Peter
Hannah nn Nancy!!
Sydney nn Leslie!!
Betty Anne
Dick Thomas

Hope these help!

Imarriedafrog · 27/06/2010 15:53

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LunarSea · 27/06/2010 15:32

Donald (Don) & Edna
Harold (Harry) & Rose

gillybean2 · 27/06/2010 15:27

Mary & Patrick
Rosalind & John

Bonsoir · 27/06/2010 15:10

Edward and Mary
Euan and Brenda

lottiejenkins · 27/06/2010 15:07

Reggie and Daisy Jane
William and Bessie

violethill · 27/06/2010 15:04

Edwin and Jane
John and Elizabeth

John and Sarah
Godfrey and Betty

Deemented · 27/06/2010 14:31

Ethel May
Robert Andrew

Mary May
Rudolph Thomas

BettyButterknife · 27/06/2010 14:27

Charles Walter
Henrietta Cecily

Edith Mary
Samuel Charles

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