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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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Sarsaparilllla · 23/12/2010 15:35

Mine were,

Margaret & Cecil
Peter & Rita

Great Grandmothers were,

Rene & Bill
Olive (& I don't know, that's awful :( )

I never knew my great grandfathers

bensonbutnohedges · 23/12/2010 15:51

Neil and Violet
Herbert and Helen

Used Helen for my DD

headfairy · 23/12/2010 15:52

Gino and Natalina (my dad's)
Gaston and Jacqueline (my mum's)

nickeldonkeybethlehemsinsight · 23/12/2010 15:53

my grandparents were:

Charles Herbert (big sis is Charlotte)
Mabel Alice (same sis is Allison middle name)
Wilfred Wallace (dad's middle name is Wilfred)
Ellen (don't know middle name) (my middle name is Helen)

nannynobblystockingnobs · 23/12/2010 15:59

Ronald and Olive
Jean and John
Greats-
Bill (william) and Mabel
Doris and John
Janet (known as jeannie)
Grandparents' siblings that I know of- Lilian, John, Leonard, Barry, Fraser, Robina (Ruby).

charley24 · 23/12/2010 16:05

Joyce and Victor
Caroline and John

katiepotatie · 23/12/2010 16:09

Elizabeth (Bessie)& James(Jimmy)
Catherine (Cathy/Cate) & Thomas (Tommy)

reup · 23/12/2010 16:09

Winifred
Horace David. Known as David
mabel
samuel Alexander known as lexy

Chocolocolate · 23/12/2010 16:35

Grandparents:

Janet
Norbert
Josef
Marcia
Keith
Freda

Great Grandparents:

Ivy
Hildagard

JiltedJohnsJulie · 23/12/2010 16:45

John Thomas
Frederick John

Hannah and
Ada

Snowqueen38 · 23/12/2010 16:56

Marjorie and Alec (Alexander)

Breta and Henry

Great Aunts and Uncles of the same generation
Clifford (Cliff)
Salome
Jean
Joan
Charles

blueollie · 23/12/2010 17:03

Kenneth & Eleanor
Elijah & Jean

:)

SummerRain · 23/12/2010 17:22

John and Ann
Albert (known as Ab) and Cornelia (known as Puck)

5GoldenFimbos · 23/12/2010 17:24

Nellie & Patrick (known as Pat)

George (known as Dode (Scotland!)) & Catherine (known as Kate or Kitty).

Great grandparents were James & Rebecca.

Great great grandfather was William.

ReadingTeaLeaves · 23/12/2010 20:45

Bernard, Eileen, Ethel, Harry, and Charles was SGD.

Plan to use Eileen at some point. Maybe Bernard too.

Why?

reinitindear · 27/12/2010 13:17

Meinwen and Henry
Harold and Moyra

Great Grandparents
Myfanwy and William

pranma · 27/12/2010 14:49

Sarah and James
Alice and Joseph

greats-Harriet and Robert
Rose and Matthew
not sure of others though there was a Cameron and a Mary in there

ManateeEquineOhara · 27/12/2010 14:57

John and Olive (known as Lyn).
Kenneth and Megan.

I used to work for a family history business, I love old names :)

tassisssss · 27/12/2010 15:08

Gwyneth and John
Olive and James (Jim)

Jim remarried an Ethel after Olive died.

GGPs included a Lily

cumbria81 · 27/12/2010 17:34

Nora
Edward

my mum's mum was Edith but I don't even know what her dad was called. Isn't that awful?! Shock

hackingandhewing · 27/12/2010 17:49

Charlie
Elsie
Reg
Alice

Eglu · 27/12/2010 17:54

My GPs were/are

Ernest
Sidney
Janet
Joyce

Great GPs that I know of.

William
Victoria
Hetty

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cuppatino · 27/12/2010 18:44

GPs

Richard Douglas (Doug)
Ernest
Nellie Evelyn Mary
Margery Mabel (Mollie)

GGPs

Frances
William
Nelly
Ernest
Mabel (Daisy)
William
Annie Louisa
William (Robert)

SantaIsMyLoveSlave · 27/12/2010 19:03

Mine were:

Mary
Wallace
Florence
William

and DH's were:

Muriel
Cyril
Olive
Harold

Greats:

Alexander
Ann (x 2)
Obadiah (known as Thomas)
Cecilia
William (x 3)
Emily
Wilkinson
Edith
Lily
Wallace
Gertrude
James
Margaret

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