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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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sparkleshine · 16/06/2011 15:46

Alice and Robert
Doreen and Wallace

littlemissw · 17/06/2011 09:21

Anna Margaret Joan
Isaac Gabriel
Annette
Louis Kobie

DH's:
Hester Irene
James
Evelyn
Jack Antony

eurochick · 17/06/2011 13:55

Dorothy
Bernard
Joyce
Bert (I actually have no idea what that is short for -they must have said at his funeral but I was probably too busy crying!)

whackamole · 17/06/2011 20:55

Joyce and Alan, Savvas and Dora. If I had a girl, I would like to use Joy as a middle name.

namechangetogloat · 17/06/2011 20:58

Rose and jim (james) I kid thee not!

anniekins · 17/06/2011 21:13

One grandmother was christened with the lovely name 'Sarah Emily' but was known as Gladys all her life!!

Harriet
William
Arthur

LongWayRound · 17/06/2011 22:23

Emlyn and Elizabeth (known as Batchie)
Klara and Otto

GG-parents
Thomas and Katherine (Kate)
Thomas and Jane
Carl Friedrich and Karoline (Lina)
Johann Gottlob and Augusta

Further back:
Thomas Lloyd
Lettice/Letitia
Martha
Alethea
Anna Rosina
Aaron
Nathaniel
Rhys
Griffith
Christian
Dozens of Thomases and Edwards...

LongWayRound · 17/06/2011 22:27

Not family names, but 18th century names seen in parish registers while researching my own family history: Damaris, Collyberry and Valley (all girls' names)

chelstonmum · 17/06/2011 22:40

Thomas
Catherine
John
Isabella
James
Philomena

LadyGoneGaga · 18/06/2011 17:10

Harold
Mildred
Janet nn Jennie
Walter

DP
Thomas
Jessie
Louis
Nora

Ivortheengine8 · 18/06/2011 20:00

My grandparents were called Charlie and Matilda, Patrick and Laura

Ivortheengine8 · 18/06/2011 20:03

Lady, was Jessie a Male or Female? I like it.
I am going to nick ome of the names from this thread!

Stars22 · 18/06/2011 22:25

Mine were

Jean and Alexander

and

Frederick James and Catherine Rose (altho she was known as Rose)

spottyock · 19/06/2011 11:14

Rose and Arthur
Nora and George

Was lucky enough to know all of them.

KatiesKittens · 19/06/2011 22:45

Hellen (known as Nell) & Alexander (Sandy)
Elizabeth & Albert

LivingDeadGirl · 19/06/2011 22:45

Fred and Elsie

David and Muriel

Love Elsie, have it in mind as a potential middle name should we ever have a dd.

LearningFast · 20/06/2011 04:00

Harrold (Harry) and Dorothy (Dot)
William and Beatrice

thecatisdead1 · 21/06/2011 11:39

Bridget Mary (always called Mary) and Paul
Edward (Eddie) and Laura Edith Thelma

lovemybabyboy · 21/06/2011 12:47

William (Bill) and Eithne (sounds like Eth-Na)
Frederick (Freddy) and Nora

puddeycat · 21/06/2011 12:52

Jessie & bertrum (Bertie)
Grace & Edward (Teddy)

Edith & Victor
Irene & James

ellesabe · 21/06/2011 21:41

Audrey and William (Bill)

Marion and Sidney (but used his middle name Gordon)

Changing2011 · 12/07/2011 20:38

Myra annette (she was always called netty. Her dad found out after she was christened that Myra is a Celtic version of Mary which he did not like! Her husband my grandad was jimmy. Other grandparents were June and Tom. Great grandparents were Isabella and Michael, Arthur and Vera, jack and Mary and Sarah and John.

pestroid · 12/07/2011 20:50

Mine were
Naomi Ruth (called Ruth)
Walter George (called Bob)
Gladys Ella Ruth
Leonard Richard

dh's were
Catherine
George
William Henry
Lois (called Edna)

pestroid · 12/07/2011 20:52

DH'S Great Nanna had the best one tho. Susannah Temperance called Temper

LaTristesse · 12/07/2011 21:33

Mine: Edward and Florence, Francis and Lily
DH's: Harry and Maud, Bert and Phyllis

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