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What are your Grandparents' names...?

226 replies

purpleiris · 19/12/2010 20:05

Mine are/were...

Dorothy
Marjorie
William
Albert

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

Alice
Wilfred

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gettingthere2011 · 20/12/2010 00:15

Wow, I'm saving this thread for inspiration Wink

Mine are:
Reginald
Gerard
Olwen
Edith (known as Peggy)

Great grandparents
Patrick
Mary
Rebecca
William
Ethel (known as Maud)
Edwin
James
Ellen Emma

LittlePushka · 20/12/2010 00:23

Harold (known as Harry)
Jane (known as Jen or Jenny)
Marian

Lynli · 20/12/2010 00:51

Luigi and Beatrice
Caterine and Stanley

AntorDec · 20/12/2010 00:52

My grandparents were-

John and Mary
Albert and Nora

none of them still here sadly, but lots of happy memories

Great grandparents-

Thomas and Sarah
Cornelius (Con) and Jane
Albert and Edith
Frederick and Mary

Sarah died when I was four, I vaguely remember her though Xmas Smile

Dalrymps · 20/12/2010 00:54

Jenny
Elsie
Herbert (Bert)
Ernest

lolcat · 20/12/2010 00:56

William and Mary Ann
Michael and Mary Catherine (known as May)

Mermaidspam · 20/12/2010 00:58

Frances & Peter
Florence & Bartholemew

(I love all of their names).

Sazisi · 20/12/2010 01:00

Christy and Mary
Laurence and Margaret

PracticallyImperfectInEveryWay · 20/12/2010 01:00

My GPs:
Marjorie Elvyn (known as Sue)
Bruce Delville
Eileen
Keith

DH's GPs:
Daisy Cecilia (known as Peggy)
Arthur James
Louise
Lennard

GGPs
Claude
Clara

TheNextMrsClaus · 20/12/2010 01:01

George
Eve
Arthur (but always called Norman)
Ella

GGPs - not sure, but think there's a James and an Annie in there somewhere.

LolaBellsAllTheWay · 20/12/2010 01:14

Patrick & Ellen
james (mick) & Elizabeth

dd2 is Elizabeth Ellen.

DP's were james & jeanette and alex & mary.

OnEdge · 20/12/2010 01:33

Arthur
Clara
Richard
Vera

TuttoRhino · 20/12/2010 01:41

Gwen
Robert Lawrence (Larry)
Margaret
Edward

GGPs
Pearl & Carl
Jane & ?
Elsie & ?

1Catherine1 · 20/12/2010 01:44

William
Doris
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Rose
John

I don't know my great grandparents names - something I have only just realised. I must ask my grandma next time I speak to her, I think her real mum (who died when my gran was young) was called Alison or Alice.

OldLadyKnowsNothing · 20/12/2010 02:01

John and Williamina, known as Mina. (It was common in Scotland at that time to name girls after their dads, so Jamesina, Thomasina etc were not unusual; many were shortened to "Ena." Yes, like Sharples... Grin)

And Helen (known as Nellie) and Robert.

bruffin · 20/12/2010 02:15

Dorothy and Russell

Christalou

I don't know my other grandfathers name. He died in 1939 when my dad was 2 in cyprus and not a lot is known about him. I will have to ask my mum to see if she knows.

Fuchzia · 20/12/2010 03:49

William
Viola
Don & Betty (very mad men)

Ggps

Marion
May
William
Ernest

GotArt · 20/12/2010 04:04

Henry and Vera

Thomas and Catherine

AngelsOnHigh · 20/12/2010 04:32

Louisa and William
Louisa and Alfred
Greats

Isabella and George
Grace Victoria and Arthur Clarence

NinkyNonker · 20/12/2010 07:58

Clarisse
Bunty (Jean)

Not sure on Grandfathers, both dead befoe I was born.

maltesers · 20/12/2010 08:00

Charles
Eileen
Hesketh
Dolly (Dorothy) all deceased now

my parents are:
Bryan
Pauline

TwentiethCenturyChristmasCarol · 20/12/2010 08:02

Joseph
Florence
Sidney Leslie
Muriel

horrorcomic · 20/12/2010 08:03

William
Eileen
John
Lillian

Greats were:
Amy
Francis
James
Elizabeth
Jemima
Jesse
John
Cissy

CuddlyNotFat · 20/12/2010 08:08

Nanny and Grandpa, obviously! Xmas Grin

bruffin · 20/12/2010 09:30

Asked my mum, we think my granddads name was Georgios

So grandparents names were
Russell and Dorothy
Christalou and Georgios