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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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GilbertsGrapes · 12/06/2011 16:08

Betty and Albert
Emily and Jack

UrsulaBuffay · 12/06/2011 16:08

Rachel...sometimes people die or separate and their partners remarry, my Great grandparents were alive for much of my life, however I listed mine & DHs grandparents.

I trust this is acceptable.

somersetmum · 12/06/2011 16:10

Donald and Gladys
Evelyn and Tom

yomellamoHelly · 12/06/2011 16:12

Lorna, Ernest, Maud, Francis (Yuck!)

RockStockAndTwoOpenBottles · 12/06/2011 16:12

Thomas and Helen
Agnes and Owen

thisisyesterday · 12/06/2011 16:16

Mavis
Joyce
Peter
Maurice

feckwit · 12/06/2011 16:17

Peggy and Marshall
Rita and montague

carben · 12/06/2011 16:17

Jessie
Wyndham
Catherine
John

deemented · 12/06/2011 16:17

Ethel May and Robert 'Bob' Andrew

May Elizabeth and Rudolph John

Manshapes g'folks are Shiela and Denzil

ZZZenAgain · 12/06/2011 16:22

Eleanor and Harald
Lilian and William

KenDoddsDadsDog · 12/06/2011 16:27

William and Maria (pronounced Maryea as is rye bread)
Robert and Margaret (Hilda)

ZZZenAgain · 12/06/2011 16:28

Hilda short for Margaret?

FlingonTheValiant · 12/06/2011 16:28

Joan Constance (known by some as Connie)
Patrick (Irish)

Alan Arthur (was called by either name)
Gertrude (German)

DH's
Jacqueline
Pierre
Louis-Jean (called Jean, his older brother "Jean-Louis" was called Louis Hmm )
Marie-Louise
They're all French, unsurprisingly.

Three sets of my great grandparents were alive 'til fairly recently - Mary & Michael (both Irish), Sarah-Louise (Sally) and Arthur, and Marie and Josef (both German).

tootooposh · 12/06/2011 16:29

Sheila, Gerald, May and, um, a bit out of fashion nowadays, Adolf

TheOldestCat · 12/06/2011 16:30

Josie (short for Lilian Josephine) and Albert
Margaret and Emlyn

kirrinIsland · 12/06/2011 16:33

Majorie, Eric, Matilda,

noddyholder · 12/06/2011 16:33

May and Bertie

Grandhighpoohba · 12/06/2011 16:34

Edward (Eddy) and Elizabeth (Ellie)

Andrew (Andy) and Robina (Ina, she hated her full name)

MsChanandlerBong · 12/06/2011 16:34

Sheila Mary (known as Mary)
Kenneth
Margaret Louisa (known as Peggy)
Richard

DHs were
Grace
Fred
Valeria
Norman

muckleflugga · 12/06/2011 16:34

Rose and Sydney
Hilda Joan and Leviticus

lellibobs · 12/06/2011 16:38

William and Mary
Phyllis and Freddie

FlingonTheValiant · 12/06/2011 16:38

Leviticus - that's magnificent!

EssexNanny · 12/06/2011 16:40

Grand Parents:
Frederick Henry
Kathleen
Thomas John
Vera Eileen
Patricia
Iris

(Thomas John married 3 times :) )

Great Grandparents:
Edward
Nellie
Frederick
Lily
Harry
Daisy May
Thomas
Gertrude

performancegirl · 12/06/2011 16:42

William, Ivy, Joan & Sydney

balia · 12/06/2011 16:43

Maria and Guillermo

Penny and William ...Danny ...and finally Geoff...(although she's still going and is the scandal of the nursing home with yet another fancy man.)