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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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Granny23 · 26/06/2010 17:34

ME
Margaret
George

Margaret
Alexander

DH
Margaret
John

Margaret
James

No surprise then that my sister, DD1 and DGD2 all have Margaret in their names!

ShowOfHands · 26/06/2010 17:32

Colin Frederick, Muriel Irene, Margaret.

Have been researching my family tree though and going back to the early 1700s onwards, here are a handful...

Theopholis
Walter
Josiah
Alfred
Horace
Albert
Herbert
Geo
Edwin
Orlando
Wash ington
Everard
Godfrey
Matilda
Miriam
Edith
Esther
Sabria
Gwendoline
Lucinda
Nanette
Chri stabel
Sylvie

dwpanxt · 26/06/2010 17:30

Peter + Mary
Cathleen (spelled with a C)+John

Harold + Dorothy
Lydia + Harry

juneybean · 26/06/2010 17:28

Joseph
Janice
Joan
Minnie
Eric

IngridFletcher · 26/06/2010 17:25

Alice
Eric

Hilda
Edward

mumofeightplusfour · 26/06/2010 17:25

william
gladys wanted for dd4 but vetoed by dh
orissa
james

notquitenormal · 26/06/2010 17:25

Mine were

Dorothy
Alexander
Margaret
Thomas

and because we're a complicated family I also have Joan & Leslie

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sunchild77 · 26/06/2010 17:24

OOh Pearl is nice

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LilQueenie · 26/06/2010 17:23

Marcin
Davina
John
Margaret (pearl)

bran · 26/06/2010 17:21

Sally
Ralph (pronounced Rafe)
Laurence
Evelyn (pronounced Eve Lynn, not Ev-lyn)

I don't know about DH's side.