Do you use "our" in front of close family names?

[mabelandmaud]

I call my close family members "Our Tom" or "Our Julie" etc. All my family do this. I'm from the north West Midlands - near Stoke on Trent and have a Northern Irish parent. I'm just wondering where this comes from, is it a regional thing, or a class thing, or a colloquial thing?

No But someone in our family moved and started saying

" We are going out for our ower lunch--
Who else's lunch would you be having ?

I do, so maybe your personal experience is not fact. Funny.

Also "our lad" for a male sibling.

That’s not what this thread is referring to.

It’s a very Northern Irish thing - I’m Belfast born & bred but really not a fan of the term to be honest! I only use it in a comical way. Definitely dying out as the younger generations rarely say it, thank goodness..

Defo a northern thing. I’m not keen.

I'm from NI and not a working class background

I'd never refer to "our" but I would occasionally say "your"

Not always though

Yes! From South Yorkshire near Barnsley and everyone is "our", except for people marrying into the family! So it is (a cousin) "our Dave and Angela". But their kids are all "our". My brother calls me "ar kid" even though I'm older than him.
I now live in North East, and my ex used used to say "wor (our) lad" when referring to his brother.
I still say "our..." when referring to a relative, but because I've lived away for years, and don't know the younger ones I have to stop myself from just saying their forename and remember to say "our" when talking about them with family. For some reason, I don't say it automatically like I do for family I've known all my life.
If I'm talking to anyone outside family about their relative, I'll say "your Craig" etc.
Not sure if all this is dying out with the younger ones. I'll check the next time I'm there.

Of course.

W/c northern roots.

In fact, everyone in my mum's (mi mam's) phone was put under the letter R.

R Stu
R Phil
R Sue
R John

so now we all do it, and describe each other as such.

Home Counties raised and never do it or had heard it until I moved to the South West. I had a colleague who often referred to her sister "Arbecki", I thought it must be an Italian name, or similar, that I'd not heard of before. Took a long time to work out that she was saying "Our Becky".

My grandmother does this. We're from the South West.

Nope, but it always reminds me of Cilla Black on Blind Date.

😁

Wor lily

Yes. Our (sister or nice for example ).but,always my (pronounce "me") mum (even if I'm talking to my sister and know its her mum too).
Midlands
Working class

I suspect regional and class

My family would say this, we’re in NI.

Yes — north east England. People also always refer to their youngest child as “the bairn” even if they’re 35.

Yes rFred, rAnna and we go out for r dinner sometimes.

Scouser here.

One branch of my family do it with EVERY family name "our susan was talking to our Mark about our Johnny who keeps arguing with our sammy" etc etc etc

No. From SE.

No. We do not live in an episode of Coronation Street

No from the south east.

There used to be 1970s boy band called Our Kid

No. I'm originally from NI and now live in Yorkshire.

It's Northern.

This is such a NW or midlands term - our (name), or our kid…..

I’m originally from the NW (although have lived in London for +25 years) and everyone from my hometown uses this.