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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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hadagutsfull · 12/06/2011 19:00

Frank and Nelly (Francis and Ellen)
Jim and Rae (James and Rachel)

lilaloves · 12/06/2011 19:02

Helena and william

Evelyn/Evie and Walter

CheerfulYank · 12/06/2011 19:02

Helen Marie and Howard Dawson
Melba June and Frederick Donald

DH:

Ellsworth (called Al) and Irene
Othmar and Eleanora (called Ella) We'll be using Eleanora if we ever have a DD :)

Shodan · 12/06/2011 19:04

Frank and Peggy (Margaret)

Jim and Nell (James and Ellen)

FantasticDay · 12/06/2011 19:05

Evangeline Olive
Muriel May
Wilfred (Wilf)
Tim

LadyClariceCannockMonty · 12/06/2011 19:05

Bill
Clarice

Llewellyn
can't remember other grandmother's name! Blush but in my defence a) my family doesn't talk about family history much and b) she died long before I was born, when my dad was a child in fact.

5inthebed · 12/06/2011 19:05

Nancy and Stanley
Sarah and Jack

BunnyWunny · 12/06/2011 19:05

Annie
Percy
Amy
Bill

sunshineandshowers13 · 12/06/2011 19:05

George and Isabel (really Isabella but she hated it Confused
Iain and Margaret

dh were
John and Helen (known as Ella)
Iain and Ellen (also known as Ella)

very Confuseding at the christmas dinner table i can tell you!

droitwichmummy · 12/06/2011 19:06

Raymond
Constance
Leonard
Margaret

NormanTheForeman · 12/06/2011 19:08

George
Nana
John
Edith

Not sure about dh's, I know one of them was Anne, but not sure about the rest.

hmmSleep · 12/06/2011 19:09

Patrick and Alma

William and Mary

Jenmummy · 12/06/2011 19:09

Mine:
Annie & John
Seamus and Ita (LOVE this name!!)

DH:
Annie & John Grin
Eddie & Maisie

Ita is the only one still around at 92....... (good on her!!)

Jins · 12/06/2011 19:11

Mona and Norman
Phyllis and Herbert

Anything suitable there? Thought not Grin

Thornton77 · 12/06/2011 19:16

Margaret and James (called Jimmy)
Elizabeth and John

wonkylegs · 12/06/2011 19:17

David
Shelia-Minnie
Gordon William Spencer (all used names) known by everybody as Larry (???)
Florence

missmiss · 12/06/2011 19:18

Jean and Ivor
Barbara and Michael

Bicnod · 12/06/2011 19:24

Alice (although known by her middle name Doreen)
&
Douglas

Mary
&
George

fishandlilacs · 12/06/2011 19:27

Gwendoline and Edgar

William & thelma (nevber ever known as Thelma by anyone EVER!!)

Arthur & Thelma (on the other side and always known as Thelma)

izzybiz · 12/06/2011 19:27

George (known as Victor!) and Rose.

Brian and Masie

tb · 12/06/2011 19:33

Gp's - Percival Kingdon - known as Percy (son had same name, known as Val)
Amy Charlotte,
Beatrice and
George Dixon (there was a tradition of using their mother's maiden name as a middle name)

Ggp's - William + unknown (df not very forthcoming on family history, but from memory, George and William alternated going down the generations)
- Julia + Herbert
- Fanny + Thomas

Ggp's born about 1840-ish, so these are from quite a while ago.
Parents - born before/during WWI were Norman and Dulcie

In looking through the census returns have found both Alonzo and Olonso in the family tree.

Lovecat · 12/06/2011 19:39

Mine:

Ada and Edmund
Florence and Michael

DH's:

Constance and Kenneth
Hansi and ....? (DH's grandad died long before he was born and was never really spoken about, his mum is now dead so he doesn't know - would have been an Austrian name, though, his mum's parents were Austrian Jewish).

absolutmum · 12/06/2011 19:40

Thomas and Phyllis
Thomas and Louis

Grandmother's siblings were Josephine, Winifred, Laura, Molly, Laurence, Harry, Alec, Jack and Brian.

Snowstorm · 12/06/2011 19:42

Zena & Philip
Joy & William

mollymole · 12/06/2011 19:42

Joseph & Jessica
George & Helen