Do you know the names of your great grandparents

[GreenCaterpillarOnALeaf]

I saw something on X the other day asking this and it made me wonder.

I can’t tell you their government names, but I know the names my parents refer to them by (skinny grandad, grandad with the hat, farmer grandad, mean Nana who used to tell my dad off when he was a little shit, nice Nana who enabled him being a little shit, and Welsh grandma). I know a decent bit about each of them, including the fact that farmer grandad looked spookily like Morrisey when he was younger (I’ve seen a photo, he really did). I don’t know about one set of my mums grandparents, but I know a decent bit about the rest.

It just made me think about if anyone will remember me or if I’ll be referred to as “Nana (insert description)” hopefully not mean Nana, I think she got a raw deal with that. Imagine my dad was a proper little terror back in the day, but he claims it was unfair persecution.

1600s is great. Mine are 1700s but French on one side.

Yes. Born 1860s.

I do know them as I do genealogy, but to be fair i only had one grandparent alive growing up as my dad's father was born in 1874 and so my great grandfather was born in 1850.

I'm old but not that old!

Yep, know the names and stories of my great grandparents. All long dead before I was born, but both sets of grandparents thought it important to pass info and lots and lots of stories on, i used to spend hours straight listening to the stories of their childhoods and lives and that of their parents, when i was young, so feel like I know them all quite well.

Unfortunately, one was a mean drunk, they died when my grandparent was a teen and his wife and kids were chuffed and relieved in equal measure. Made no difference to the family as he used to drink his pay away at the pub on getting it and would be broke (and angry about that) for the rest of the week so my great grandmother had to do domestic work on the side to feed them, kids would scour the areas around railway lines for dropped coal etc.

Yes, but then I've done a lot of family history research and can go back a few more generations on some branches of the family.

In no particular order: Arthur, Dinah, Frederick, Sarah, Edward, Mary, another Edward, another Mary.

No. But then I’ve just realised I can’t actually remember my maternal grandfathers name! He was alive when I was a child , divorced from my grandma , really dysfunctional family. I dint think he ever really spoke to me to be honest.

ive also realised I don’t know my parental grandfathers name either.

Yes, our family graves are all in one place going back 300 years and I've been responsible for cleaning & repair for the last two decades.

It would be hard not to have noticed.

I know the ones on my Mum’s side because my Nan used to talk about them. I also feel as though I met my great aunt even though she died years before I was born, thanks to my Nan’s stories about her. I even used to know the name of the horse great grandad rode in WWI, but I’ve forgotten that now and feel strangely sad about it.

I’m not 100% sure about all the ones on my dad’s side, and the ones I do know are also thanks to my maternal grandmother who somehow knew his family history as well as her own!

Just legal or real name. “Government name” is just something I picked up from niece and nephew. My attempt to remain down with the kids.

On all of my paternal side I do thanks to ancestry.com. On my maternal side I know some but don't know my Mums paternal Grandparents names.

My dad was estranged from his family and mum born out of wedlock. I can name my grandparents but only name the parents of the only functional grandparent I had.

No. I mean, I could probably look it up, but they were all dead by WW1 so long out of living memory now.

Yes, I know the names of all of them. My Mum had a “Baby Book” to record all sorts of details of my first years; she has recently given it to me. At the front is a family tree page - seven of the eight names were filled in.

Many years later, Mum and I started researching our family tree together. I now know all their names and those of many generations back.

I only met my maternal great grandmother. All the rest had died, before I was born.

I do know all their names, occupations, residences and relatives, after researching my family tree for 18 months. I traced my maternal grandmother’s father’s family back to 1585. I go round visiting their graveyards, when I can - they are a mine of information about families. I grew up, where the family lived; but I don’t live there now.

I also found one of my maternal great grandmother’s ancestors came over from Normandy, with William the Conqueror. Other people have already done that kind of research on medieval times, so it’s already there in the genealogy websites.

@GreenCaterpillarOnALeaf yes, but only because I've researched my family tree. My mum barely remembers her grandparents, and my biological dad has never been in my life, so I only know their names through my research.

On my mother's side yes; father's no. Father arrived in the UK aged 10 in 1938. Nobody on his family survived.

Grandma's side yes and on her father's side got back to 1435 on Ancestry. Grandma knew her grandparents and had birth and marriage certificates back to the 1700's, which mother has given to me.

Grandfathers, yes, but no further. Russian refugees 2017 - there is some Russian historical evidence about the family but I have never explored it.

Is there some kind of family tree app where you can add your family details and scan photos in? If not there should be. I know most of mine many were alive when I was a child.

I only know the names of two on my maternal bloodline. My mum also used to talk about her Granny Beau, but Beau wasnt her actual name. My Dad didn't speak about his family much, but I think my Grandad's mum may have been called Dolly/Doris but I can't be sure.

Yes know all my great grandparents names. My parents talked about them to me when I was younger so knew the old family tales. My great grandmother on my dad’s side met me when I was about 18 months old in 1963. Her name was Ellen Phillips nee Rice and she came from Poplar. My dad told me she small but if riled she had a fierce temper, something familiar to other female members of our family! Dad’s maternal grandparents had died before he was born leaving my granny an orphan at 11 years old. She and her surviving siblings lived with a maiden aunt in Clapham.
On my mums side ,her paternal grandparents had died before she was born. Charles and Mary Keogh ,farmers from Co. Meath Ireland. Her maternal grandfather died before she was born but her grandmother Christina Dowling after whom she was named owned her own pub again in Co. Meath . The pub is no longer in the family but the original name Dowlings is above the door.

No, I only had two grandparents living when I was born and none by the time I became an adult, so great grandparents not really remembered by anyone. I know a few stories about my maternal great grandparents that my grandma must have told me when I was a child but I don't know any names.

I think my children would know the name of at least one of their great grandparents, maybe more, I'm not sure. They were lucky to meet one great grandparent who died when they were quite small. I'm going to ask them later and fill them in if they don't know. They only have two grandparents now so I guess it's down to DH and I to pass on these memories where we can.

only from googling

Everyone in my immediate family seem to finish having their kids very late in life (not helped by the second world war in some cases). I only know the name of my mum's mum. She was alive for my early childhood. The rest of my grandparents were dead long, long before I was born. My great grandparents would have been born in the 1800s. I'm only in my early 40s, but I'm not sure my parents would have known their names either. I can't even name all my aunts/uncles and cousins and only met half of them in childhood as well.

Off the top of my head, no. But I could look them up if I wanted to. My sister and my aunt have both done a lot of research into our family trees.

Yes, I met them. Have ancestry family tree going back to doomsday book. Lots of lords and ladies.

I knew my mum’s maternal grandmother, I know my mum’s paternal grandmother’s name only because they were both sisters and my paternal grandfather was their brother but I don’t know my dad’s mum’s parents, my dad’s dad’s parents are the same parents to my great grandmothers.