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What were your grandparents called?

474 replies

Oopsie · 12/06/2011 15:50

I'm looking for some good oldie names.

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mustdash · 13/06/2011 14:50

Elizabeth (Bessie) and Garden (not a typo!)
Alexandrina and George

inbetweener · 13/06/2011 15:18

Edna and Herbert
Alfie and Joan

PurpleStrawberry · 13/06/2011 15:38

Oh you can't edit posts, I was going to go back and edit mine, to add the names of my great-grandparents.

I'll add them here then.

Francisco Javier & Ana Cristina
Juan Antonio & Josefa Maria

Vicente & Maria Dolores
Alejandro Jose & Maria Teresa*

  • In this great-grandmother's family, all the girls were called Maria 'other name' (in age order they were Maria Luisa, Maria Teresa, Maria Gracia, Maria Rosa), which isn't uncommon. They all went by the second part of their name.
cadifflur · 13/06/2011 15:49

Grace & Eric
Emily & William
Both sets of GPs had 8 children each, so I have lots of cousins. - a fair few MN of Emily, Grace and William. No Eric's though. - It's due a come back surely!

oohlaalaa · 13/06/2011 15:49

My grandparents, great grandparents and DHs grandparents.

Barbara
Charles
Elizabeth
Thomas
Elsie
Percy
Julia
William
Muriel
Cecil
Kathleen
Eric

theDudesmummy · 13/06/2011 15:54

Elisabeth Jean
Stanley

(other side don't know)

rubybambini · 13/06/2011 15:55

Ruth and Max (Maxfield)
Johnny and Jessie

midnightexpress · 13/06/2011 15:56

Jack and Isobel
Alexander and Violet

TooImmature2BMum · 13/06/2011 15:57

Patricia & Graham
Carole & Peter

Great-Grandparents
Jessie and Victor
John

Lilian
Nora

I don't know the names of the other ones - oops! I know Duncan and Martin are also family names as they are my granny's middle names, weirdly.

oohlaalaa · 13/06/2011 15:58

I missed some great grandparents:

Mary (known as Polly)
Wilfred

messybessie · 13/06/2011 16:00

Elsie (really wanted if DS was a girl)
Reg (considered by the Krays put me off)
Margaret (think Maggie is lovely)
Thomas (bit 'meh')

GollyHolightly · 13/06/2011 16:01

Leonard (both paternal and maternal grandfathers)

Sadie
Jessie

OTheHugeManatee · 13/06/2011 16:19

Cuthbert and Anne

John (Jack) and Elizabeth

Karbea · 13/06/2011 16:22

Ethel, Douglas, Jane, Edward.

JanMorrow · 13/06/2011 16:47

Donald, Eunice (known as Mai), Yoland, Kenneth and great gran was Edith.

topazmcgonagall · 13/06/2011 17:17

Molly and Hugh, Margot and John

MotherOfHobbit · 13/06/2011 17:28

Mercia and Jimmy
Doreen and Patrick

Aquilla · 13/06/2011 18:05

Ivy and Clarence
Joy
Audrey and Cyril

AvonCallingBarksdale · 13/06/2011 18:06

Olwen and Harry (Olwen was really Edith, but didn't like it, and Harry was Hendry, but didn't like that!)

Dulcie and John

Molybdenum · 13/06/2011 18:12

Joseph Henry
Helen Forrest (always called Nell)
Allen Gordon
Deborah Hannah

froggers1 · 13/06/2011 18:16

Rosaleen (Irish) - this is my mum's name too, Leslie
Mabel Christina (Chris) and Walter

ShoonaBee · 13/06/2011 18:26

Edna
Leonard
Herbert
Mary
Margaret
Frank
although my favourite (non-family member) is Aloysius (pronounced Allo-ish-us)

ShoonaBee · 13/06/2011 18:29

oh, and Rodney (real name Derek. Reason for being called Rodney lost in the mists of time and obviously long before Only Fools...) - my mum's cousin. Really. I'm not making this up.

woowa · 13/06/2011 19:04

Lovliest names ever:

Arlingham Jerome d'Arcy and Elizabeth Alix

  • love love love these names, and now side by side on a gravestone they are no less beautiful. Grandpa was Arly when little, then d'Arcy once grown up.

and the others:

Eunice Agatha and Ian ?

canoe · 13/06/2011 19:50

Patricia Rosemary
and Patrick Joseph (yes that's Pat and Pat)

and Dora Mercia
and John Antony (but called Tony)

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