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.

Yeah.

Frederick Charles, married to Laura May. Robert Leonard married to Blytha May.

Francois & Paula, John Joseph Athanas & Helene.

Know their surnames too. All died long before I was born.

Nope. Never met any of them - my grandparents were all in their 70’s/80’s when I was born as it is.

I've just discovered the names of my other two great-grandparents, so I now know all eight.

I still had a GGF until I was 14 - he was living with a GM and GF. A lovely old man - his name was Ernest, his wife (who died before I was born) was Agnes Lavinia.

I have no idea about any of the others, though I dare say I could soon find out.

Agreed my Grandparents inherited a box of photos that they didn't know who half the people were.
But the next generations will have different issues so much stuff will end up getting lost as we all store photos digitally.

My dad told me his grandmother was known as Mad Aggie (Agatha). She had thirteen kids. I said "I'd be bloody bad if I had thirteen kids!". Her husband was Arthur.

And I know he, his dad, and his dad's dad all had the same name. Very common to be named after the king in those days.

So, I know three of them.

I actually don’t remember the names of my great grandparents at all. I know they existed obviously, and I’ve probably heard their names mentioned once or twice growing up, but they never really stuck in my head. By the time I was around they were long gone, so they were always just “mum’s grandparents” or “dad’s grandparents” in stories rather than real people I had any connection to. I sometimes think it’s a bit of a shame, because it would be nice to know more about that part of the family, but I suppose once a couple of generations pass those details just fade unless someone writes them down.

Re photos, not long before he died, my DF, only child born 1916, put a lot of very old B&W photos, mostly taken when he was a child, into an album, with details underneath to say where and who.

Some of the remarks were typical of him, e.g one of an Isle of Wight beach in the late 1920s - ‘Great Aunts Ethel and Mabel, dressed in the fashion of staid ladies of their day’.

I particularly remember pics from a Suffolk family farm where he’d stayed as a child - one of a magnificent shire horse, all spruced up for some occasion. He even remembered his name - Boxer.

We were all very grateful to him for having taken the trouble - we’d never have had a clue about 95% of them otherwise.

What a blessing that he took time to do that.
Maybe that should be a retirement project for everyone.
Filter years of photos and print and label the best

Interesting as my dad’s side is shrouded in weirdness. I’m planning on chatting to him about it this weekend.

My mum’s were William and Mary Trayhurn and Cos and Cis Jones.

No, but my sister does. I'm not very interested in my ancestry. Sometimes feel like the only person who doesn't care!

Yes and I can recount conversations with them as a couple were alive until I was about ten.

I know the name of one great grandmother, who lived until I was 12 and went by her first name, I remember her talking about her husband/ my grandma's dad, so know his name as well. I remember another great grandmother, who died when I was around 8, but I only ever called her 'nanna' so would have to check what her actually name is.

No idea