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Name fashion - guess my age

59 replies

GuessThatGranny · 03/02/2024 21:15

We all know certain names date people to certain decades.

So I wondered, in the spirit of retro names etc, if you can guess my age by my grandparents’ names.

They were called:

Elizabeth
Jane
John
Allan

OP posts:
KirstenBlest · 04/02/2024 19:14

42

coloursquare · 04/02/2024 21:24

MissingMoominMamma · 04/02/2024 19:03

Oooh, I like this game!

Jessie, Joseph, Dorothy and Maurice.

Early 30s

faeriesandelves · 04/02/2024 21:37

MissingMoominMamma · 04/02/2024 19:03

Oooh, I like this game!

Jessie, Joseph, Dorothy and Maurice.

59 !

MissingMoominMamma · 04/02/2024 21:37

coloursquare · 04/02/2024 21:24

Early 30s

Sadly not!

MissingMoominMamma · 04/02/2024 21:38

faeriesandelves · 04/02/2024 21:37

59 !

Very close. 57.

faeriesandelves · 04/02/2024 21:42

Aha! One of my grandparents was called Joseph and I had a great aunt Dot ...... given the game away for my age but my grandparents were

Florence & Fred (like Tesco lol)
Edith and Joseph

All popular names again lol!

borntobequiet · 04/02/2024 21:44

Thomas, Catherine
William, Bridget

murasaki · 04/02/2024 21:58

borntobequiet · 04/02/2024 21:44

Thomas, Catherine
William, Bridget

49

Kwam31 · 04/02/2024 22:06

Norman, Helen
Frank, Elizabeth

LadyMacbethWasMisunderstood · 04/02/2024 22:08

56

Kwam31 · 04/02/2024 22:08

Not quite, 50

MissingMoominMamma · 04/02/2024 22:31

borntobequiet · 04/02/2024 21:44

Thomas, Catherine
William, Bridget

50?

MissingMoominMamma · 04/02/2024 22:31

Kwam31 · 04/02/2024 22:06

Norman, Helen
Frank, Elizabeth

38?

Kwam31 · 04/02/2024 22:36

@MissingMoominMamma
I'm 50 😀

murasaki · 04/02/2024 22:52

It does show you can't always tell, I got a span of 38 to 63 for mine!

murasaki · 04/02/2024 22:54

I'm also thinking that @borntobequiet 's sound very Thomas Hardy, but she's clearly not that old... 🤣

LadyMacbethWasMisunderstood · 04/02/2024 23:27

My grandparents were May, Charles, Frederick and Flora. How old am I?

NoelJo · 04/02/2024 23:30

Douglas & Ada
Robert & Sheila

DelphiniumBlue · 04/02/2024 23:32

MissingMoominMamma · 04/02/2024 19:03

Oooh, I like this game!

Jessie, Joseph, Dorothy and Maurice.

I think you must be in your sixties.

NoelJo · 04/02/2024 23:32

@LadyMacbethWasMisunderstood I’m guessing 35-40?

Chocladore · 04/02/2024 23:34

Great game, OP.

mine are:-

Mary & Sam
Annie & Andrew

borntobequiet · 05/02/2024 06:53

borntobequiet · 04/02/2024 21:44

Thomas, Catherine
William, Bridget

I’m 70. The Irish connection probably confused things a bit. All my grandparents were born in the 1880s, my parents were born between 1910 and 1920, and they were older parents themselves, because the war got in the way. I and my brothers were born in the late 1940s/1950s.

borntobequiet · 05/02/2024 06:55

murasaki · 04/02/2024 22:54

I'm also thinking that @borntobequiet 's sound very Thomas Hardy, but she's clearly not that old... 🤣

Not quite! But I do have an early photograph of Thomas and Catherine in a pony trap, looking very Hardyesque.

bigTillyMint · 05/02/2024 07:26

@NoelJo 30?
@Chocladore 65?

@borntobequiet, only just saw your first post - I was thinking that age!

How about
Harry and Margaret
John and Eileen?

Kwam31 · 05/02/2024 07:28

@Chocladore 45?