What were your grandparents called?

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I'm looking for some good oldie names.

Mine: Julia, Harrold, Josephine, Francis, Balint, Istavanka, Joseph, Ellen, Samuel, Gizella.
DH: Alice, David, Edwin, Joan, Alice, George, John, Jean, Thomas, Minnie, William and Margaret

Laurina (Renee) & Thomas

Dorothy & James (Jim)

Clem (Clement) and Annie
Willie and Lizzie

: )

Ernest Clare
Elfrieda Theodore
Audrey Henry
George Florence

All gone All missed very much

Stephen & Agnes (known as Nancy)
Lesley & Elizabeth....

Mine were:
Minnie, Fred, Noah and Ann
Husband's:
Doris, Geoffrey, Johanna and Karl.

really like Minnie but was vetoed because of the 'mouse' connection. Also had a lovely Aunty Betty and Aunty Edie. Still like those names.

James and Esme

Barbara and Sidney (known as Frank)

Dads mum and dad, George and Freda May[never knew her she died when dad was 21] step-gran who we called gran was Elizabeth.
Mums mum and dad, Clara and Robert [never knew him he was killed in the war when mum was 6]

Annie and Michael
Hilda and George

Beatrix and Cecil
Elsa (but was always known as Billy) and Mark

If ds had been a girl, he'd have been called Elsa, either as a middle name or "main" name, depending on what he "looked" like.

Mine: Sydney and Kate (Kitty)
John Edward and Hester Kate

DH: William and Isabella
Paul and Else

GGP: mine George and Annie, George and Kate.
John William and Selina Jane, Jeremiah and Anna

dh: Townsley and Margaret, William and Jane
Johann and Agnes, Josef and Selma

There are some lovely names on this thread, I really wanted Elsie or Bella, but I was blessed with two boys instead.

I like Herbert or Stanley for boys.

GPs - Joyce, Eric, June and Ray

Molly and Monty
Lawrence and Ruby

Iris and John
Janet and Sidney

Love Iris and Sidney, not so keen on Janet and John

Irene, Betty, Pearl, Lydia, Doris, Ada, Vera, Jean

Reg, Frank, Bert, Ron, Bob, Dick

Iris and Arthur Gordon (known as Gordon)
Mary and Leslie

DH's are:

John and Joan (who named their children John and Jane....)
Ivy and Reginald

My greatgrandparents were:

Isaac and Margaret
Percy and Hilda
Elizabeth and John William
Gertrude and.... I have forgotten! Must check!

If I remember rightly then I have a mixture of great and great great (!) aunties and uncles with names such as Tance (female), Mansel and Ketura.

Mine:
Roy & Kathleen
James and Margaret (known as Peggy)

Dh's:
Serge
Celine
Don't know his Mother parenst names (how awful is that?) Always refers to his maternal grandad as 'Pop'

Mine were Josephine and Colm, Laurence and Bridget.

Eeek I don't know what DHs' are called!

Jack, Edith, Kenneth, Bessie (not Elizabeth) - mine
DH's grannies are Irene and Gwen

Louis and Patricia. Elizabeth and Arthur.

Leonard
Beryl
Mary
(father was a war child so never knew his father but was apparently a Polish airman, so could be anything from Tadeusz to Janusz)

Husband:
Rita
John
Carmen
John

How far back do you want to go...?

1960's?
Stuart
Keith
Rodney

1950's
Paula
Donna
Robert

Daisy
Joe
Mamie
Davie
Eddie
Albert
Grace
Agnes
Thomas

Mine

Jennifer & James
Madeliene & John

DH

May & Donald
Alice & Samuel