What are your Grandparents' names...?

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Mine are/were...

Dorothy
Marjorie
William
Albert

And the great-grandparents I know of (must find out the rest!)...

Alice
Wilfred

Margaret
John Trevor
Frances William

Can't remember about Fathers parents.

Great Aunts were:
Dorothy
Florence
Jessie
Jack

Oh just remembered that great grandmothers name was Kythe.

my grandparents
Erma and reg
Shiela and whoever she was married to at the time
my dh's granparents
June and cyril
Grandma and grandad chang - i dont know the 1st names

Boo, I'll be back in a mo when I've checked, but I have a nasty feeling you'll be disappointed - IIRC James and Jonathan feature strongly, as does Thomas! Not very exciting. :o

The German/Jewish lot on the other hand... Marmaduke anyone? Or Raphael perhaps?

Annie & Frank
Margaret & Thomas

Greats:

Margaret (Maggie) & Edward
Ann
William

Mine were:

Emily (b 1909)
Edith (b 1902)

Charles (b 1906)
Alec (b 1897)

Grandparents (all born 1900-1910) were
Marjory (Maisie) and Ephriam (Eph)
Andrew and Winifred (Winnie)

Great grandparents (possibly about the 1870's?)were
Alexander and Jessie
William and Ann
Alex and Annie
John and ?

I think Ephriam wins hand down as the worlds worst name! He hated it. Was always called Eph (sounds like Eff), but then people used to ask him what the F stood fo!

"for" even

As I remembered, a job lot of Jonathans in my ancestry. That said, way back in 1425, a Johan (female) with a Scandanavian surname married into the family and we did once sneak a Jasper in before returning to Jonathan again. :o

On the other side of the family we have Hadleigh, Launcelot, Isadore, Antoinette, heinrich, Iolanthe, Stanislaus, Angelo, Matthias, Henri... do any of them grab ya?! :)

Ernest William and Pauline Heather, DH's are/were Ian and Lily. DD has Lily as a middle name as she passed away when I was 5 months pregnant. Next DC if a boy will have William for my Grandad who passed when DD was 1 1/2 and adored her. Both my Grandparents raised me.

Adam & Audrey
Arthur & Phylis

Greats:
William & Mary
Frederick & Ellen

Molly and Charlie
Rosa (Violet) and Harold.

Martha and Solomon (back when we were Jewish)

Edgar & Nelly (Helen)
George & Marjorie

Don't know any great-grandparents. Edgar had a brother called Redvers and a sister called Adelaide, who I always knew as Aunty Mack.

Bit boring really...

Nellie and Harry on my mum's side
No idea on my dad's parents, they died before he met my mum and he died when I was 11 - large age gap. Think his mum was an Elizabeth though.

DH's graandparents:

Gaynor and Walter (MILs parents)
Katherine and Efan (FILs parents)

Between DH and I - GPs and GGPs that I know:

Thomas
William
Joseph
George
Robert
John

Barbara
Ada
Eileen
Alice
Jemima
Ellen
Sarah

Herbert (known as Bert) & Edith
Morris (family surname, hence incorrect spelling) & Olive

James
Margaret

Donald
Mary

edna and albert

selina and john

Mine:

George and Mary

Douglas and Alice (known as Doreen)

DH's:

Eva and Wilfred

don't know his other two

GP's
Ethel
Thomas
Richard
Noreen

Greats
Richard
Agnes
Florence
Arthur
Sarah
Francis
Mary
William

DH's grandparents were
Norah & Jack
Norah & Frank (Francis Percy George, to give him his full name!)

GPs
Sidney and Florence
Leonard and Catherine (1st wife), Gertrude (2nd wife) - Trudy

thought I knew names of GGPs, but actually it seems that I don't

Rosa

Alice and Robert (Bob)
Doreen and Wallace (Wally)

only know one GGP
Ada and William (Bill)

Alice Rose but known as Bobbie or Rose
John Wilmot

Rose Eva [known as Eva]
John Edwin

Gt Grandparents
John Gerald
Maud

Sarah

Can't remember the others-must pop down to the graveyard and check.

Lily & Harry

Dolly (Laura) & Gray