Do you know the names of your great grandparents

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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.

Yes, but only because one of my siblings did a family tree thing. Until then, I only knew them by ‘Grandma Town Name’ and other such nicknames.

I know my great grands and great-great grands names. One great grandad was still alive when I was born - can’t remember how old I was when he died - as was his second wife. I know his first wife’s name too

Nope. No idea.

I know them all even though I was 4 months old when the last one died.

Genealogy help heal some rifts in the family.

I do now but only because I have been researching my family tree. Apparently my Dad's grandmother was thrilled I had been named after her. Except I wasn't because my Mum never knew her first name as my Dad only ever thought of her as his gran (she lived in a different country so they didn't see her often).

Only on one side of the family

Yes to six of them (variations on William, Robert, Mary and Lily). Not clear who my mum's father was, so his parents are also lost in the mists of time.

I should ask my kids if they know who my grandparents are. Interesting thought.

I knew my dad’s, dads mum name, I also met her, she died when I was 15. I know the name of my mums, mums dad. Never met him, he died before my mum was even born I believe. I know I was named after my grandads (Mums, dad) mother. Thankfully her second name because I’m not sure how I’d have felt being called Ethel 🤣, no nothing about my dads mums parents.

My grand-parents names (in no particular order)
Winston
reginald
Christopher
john
pamela
brigid
brigid
violet
ethel

I only know the names of my mother's mother's mother and father. The rest are a mystery.

I’ve done my family tree and can you the names of my family members going back to the 1700s

Yes and two of them died in the 1920s when my grandmother was 8.

No, but I could look them up easily enough. We have a family tree scroll in a drawer downstairs

I know their names and have photos of a couple of them, but they were long gone when I was born. The oldest was born in 1811, his wife in 1812. I have a photo of her with my father when he was a boy. So weird to think she was born before the battle of Waterloo!

I do, but only on my maternal side (my Dad’s side is a mystery that Ancestry DNA has only just started to unfold….), because my Nan used to talk about them and my Mum remembered them. I’m 54 and my maternal line Great Grandparents were born in 1874 and 1878.

Ancestry and Find My Past are the two largest databases, I think.

I know all their surnames and two (one on each side) Christian names and possibly a third but am not too sure. As my parents never knew their grandparents, apart from my mother knowing her maternal grandfather, who died when she was a teenager, it is not surprising that l am somewhat hazy on my great grandparents. They would all have been Victorians, born in the 1870s and 1980s as my grandparents were born between 1905 and 1916 making three of them Edwardians. I was lucky enough to have three of my grandparents well into adulthood and my children knew their two great-grandmothers and my older two knew one of their great-grandfathers but really only knew my maternal grandmother well as she was ninety when she died.

I know dm's side - 2ggm's were still alive until I was about 18 but df was an orphan and I'm a bit more sketchy on his side.

Yes and I met two of them, they died when I was around 15. I can go back very far in my family tree and have photos of a lot of my family members on it going back as far as is possible to have photos taken obviously.

It is funny how the family label people. One of my ggf's on dm's side, Thomas, I was always told was a wife beater who did a midnight flit. I've recently found out he has a memorial in a church for doing something (very few details). Df has said he always used to run upstairs to talk to his gd, Edward, who had had a very adventurous life after being born in a workhouse and being farmed out whereas he thought his gm didn't speak English! Doing research his gm,Margaret was English (well Liverpool Irish)!

I know a lot about them.
Two of them met me as a baby.
But I inherited a lot of information about my family- I have photographs and documents about my great and GG grandparents.
Very lucky- I find it really interesting.

They had all died before I was born, but I can name six of them. I can go back further in one branch of the family.

Yes

I knew my great grandparents on my mums side, Melita and Cyril. They died when I was about 9 (54 now), both in their 80s.

My great gran was a force to be reckoned with, she was lovely. My mum told me a story about when a teacher hit her and my great gran found out, she was cooking at the time and all 4 foot nothing of her stormed down to the school with the knife still in her hand. Found the teacher and told him “lay a finger on her again and I’ll cut your insides out and show them to you!”, frightened the teacher to death.

Great gramp was very chilled out, until the wrestling came on TV on a Saturday afternoon, then the air turned blue!! 🤣

I can name some of them, but I'd have to ask my parents for the rest (or just guess, Italians of that generation tended to recycle the same handful of family names).