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

Mine

George Kenneth
Alice LaVerne

Great-grandp's

Mary Katherine
Malcolm Isaiah 'Mack'

DP's gparents

Helen (Nell)
Edward

GPs are
Reg (Reginald) and Peggy (Margaret)
Mabel and Tom

GGPs
Winnie (Winifred) and Wilf (Wilfred)

I love the idea of using Reg if we are lucky enough to need a name for a wee boy but DH is convinced it is only useful for naming tortoises - not that we have a need for tortoise names.

GPs:
Kathleen and William
John and May
GGPs:
Only know Rose
Not too bad names - I have both GMs for middle names and my brother has both GFs.

GPs
Frederick and Florence (Fred and Floss)
Alfred and Grace (Alfie and Grace)

All born between 1894 and 1908. Not 2004-2010!

GGPs
Edwin and Amelia
Edward and Madeleine
Arthur and Emma
Ernest and Eleanor

Nancy, Frank, Jack, Amy

All dead now but maternal grandparents were Mary and Patrick ( Guess where I'm from !)
Paternal grandparents were Maire ( pronounced Moira, Irish for Mary) and Peadar ( prounced pather, Irish for Peter.)

Peter
Sidney- known as Lesley??!

Frances
Hannah - known as Nancy??!

Some of their siblings are

Doris
Alan
Margaret
Dillys

Sidney and Irene (known by their middle names: Frederick and Elizabeth)
James and Joan

I can see why Fred and Lizzie were keen to dispense of their given names!

Allan - would have been happy to use, but other relatives got in their first.
Elizabeth - gave DS a variation as a middle name.
John - too plain for me, but non offensive
Jane - as above.

So, generally, not a dated bunch at all, despite, that they still been alive, a collective age of nearly 400!

Colin & Mildred (Millie)
Cornelius (known by middle name Frederick - Fred) & Doris

Knew both my nanna's mum's but they were distinguished in our house by their surnames - Gran Bailey (Dad's gran) and Nan Harrison (Mum's)

Nan Harrison passed away on the day the Falklands War started.

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

nothing wrong with marmaduke!1 (says the owner of 5 month old wonderbear marmaduke! )

val those are great names. loving the sneaky jasper!!

Maryanne (Nancy) & Archibald

Jean & John

GGPs

Catherine & John

Rose and ?? I have no idea,he is alive I've just never met him. Sheila and John although that's not his real name.

Ronald, Hetty, Graham and Helen.

GPs

Alfred and Pearl
Robert and Ellen

GGPS
John and Edith
Andrew and Nelly
Robert and Sarah

Have a Matilda as a GGGP which I have used for DD

GP's were Dolly (Dorothy) and Darrell. Peter Wilhelm known as Wilhelm and Anna Maria known as Mia.

GGP's were Peter Josef known as Josef and Anna

Bernard and Kate
John and Evelyn

Jean and William (Bill)
Frank and Betty

Great GPs

Stella and Ernest
Ruby
are al that I know of

Gilbert (Gil)
Marie (pronounced Mahree with the emphasis on the first syllable)

Frank
Dorothy

DH's were
William
Jessie

Dorothy
Vincent

Dot and James.
Isabella and Jimmy.

Gps:
Lilian & Frank
Ivy (connie) & Frank

Dh's Gps:
Mary & Arthur
Irene & Leslie (mil is Irene Lesley)

Lilian and Connie are still alive, so my Dcs have 2 doting GGPs as well as their GPs. Wonderful! :o

Heylittlediddle mine were Isabella and Jimmy too!

Maternal GP's Doris & Arthur
Paternal GP's Kieran & Bridget

Maternal GGP Hector & ?

Nora and Maurice
Mary and Cornelius

Paternal: Patricia and Lawrence/Kevin. Lawrence was his birth name but his adoptive parents changed his name to Kevin shortly after his adoption aged 6.

Maternal: Beatrice/Phyllis and John. Beatrice was her first name but she always went by her middle name, Phyllis. I never understood why and never got to ask. I thought Phyllis was her first name until I found a letter addressed to her shortly after her death.