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What were your grandparents called?

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Oopsie · 12/06/2011 15:50

I'm looking for some good oldie names.

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HooverTheHamaBeads · 14/06/2011 10:46

Loving Ernest!!

issynoko · 14/06/2011 13:42

Edwin and Margaret (known as Sonny and Maggie)
Francis (Frank) and Elizabeth

DH:

Reg and Margaret
Stanley and Phyllis

FlipFantasia · 14/06/2011 14:27

Cool idea!

Mine: Gertrude (called Gertie) and Michael; Denis and Kathleen
DH's: Karl & Lea; Margery (called Marge) and Walter (called Walt).

DS's middle name is Walter after his great-grandad.

squeak2392 · 14/06/2011 20:41

Arthur and Brenda (who remarried to Dennis, known as Den).
Ella (husband unknown, as he died when father was a boy and is never talked about - for no particular reason other than, what's there to talk about? She never remarried, which was sweet :))

alemci · 14/06/2011 20:54

Gwendolen and Norman
Mary and Harvey

AliceAirhead · 14/06/2011 20:57

Beatrice and Tudor
Beatrice and Harold

DD's middle name Beatrice - conveniently keeping both sides of family happy. Like the name anyway.

Tillyscoutsmum · 14/06/2011 20:59

Mine: Matilda and Lesley. Margaret & Raymond

DH's: Elsie & Andrew. Caroline & Joseph Rennie

bruffin · 14/06/2011 22:44

Said above i didn't know my greek grandads name as he died in 39. However my mum managed to find it and it is Yiakalli. Just googled it and can only come of one instance of it and that is as a surname. Obviously the spelling is anglicized so who knows.

TheOriginalNutcracker · 14/06/2011 22:47

Harry, Rose, Charlie and Joan.

Ds is Harry, after my grandad.

duchesse · 14/06/2011 22:56

John ("Jack"), Doris, Maude, Aubrey. All born between 1904 and 1908

Greenwing · 14/06/2011 23:42

Albert and Mary Ann

Alexander and Alice Maud

Tommy · 14/06/2011 23:52

Albert and Christina
Antoinette (French!) and Winston Hmm

thereisalightanditnevergoesout · 15/06/2011 00:20

Phyliss
Jock
Raymond
Joyce
Jane
James
Ruby
Aubrey

thereisalightanditnevergoesout · 15/06/2011 00:20

Sorry that should be Phyllis

Zaft · 15/06/2011 09:16

Edna
Frederick
Olive
William

GabbyLoggon · 15/06/2011 09:45

I am the youngest of a very large family; and never met any of my grandparents.

Frank or Francis....Sarah...

oohlaalaa · 15/06/2011 12:29

Posted way back, but couldnt remember name of two of my great grandparents, mum told me its Edward (Ted) and Lucy.

gallicgirl · 15/06/2011 12:46

Bernard
Norah
Peter
Margaret

steps; Nellie, Kenneth, Ronald

DH's: Fred, May, Harriet Adele, Sidney (I think)

To complicate matters Peter was known as Harry, or the other way around.

greenzebra · 15/06/2011 15:08

Margaret
Frederick

Bessie
William

G-Grandparents

Evangeline
John

Hannah
Frederick

Lilly-lucy
Sidney

Thomas
Hannah

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stegasaurus · 16/06/2011 13:59

Both ny grandads were called John.
My grandma is called Marguerite, and my nan was called Mary.
TBH I would be surprised if DH knows his grandparents' names.

BrigitBigKnickers · 16/06/2011 14:07

Gilbert, Frank, Dorothy, Marie (pronounced Mahrie)

DHs- Jessie, Victor, Dorothy, William

LB1982 · 16/06/2011 14:49

Shirley and Michael

June and William

Shirley and William are still alive. I love the name Shirley :)

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