What were your grandparents called?

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I'm looking for some good oldie names.

Mary & Julius
Ivy & Frank

Mary & Julius
Ivy & Frank

Arthur Victor
Shadrack
Madge
Ada

Love this - I was asking my friends the exact same question when I was pregnant with DS. Really like the old-fashioned names and looking again for second baby.

My grandparents were
Rita & Nicholas (I love Rita, but DH will only agree as middle name)
Elsie & Jack

DH's grandparents were
Nancy & Maurice (we have Maurice as middle name for DS and might go with Monty if we have DD)

One of my friend's grandfathers was called Herbert. He couldn't believe it when we actually considered it; I love Herb & Herbie!

John & Mary
John (known as Jack) and Eileen

DH: Jack & Phyllis
Frieda & ?

Montgomery
Margaret
Elizabeth
Cecil

DH's

Robert
Catherine
Francine
Michel

I agree lovely question my grandparents were and are

Annie and Henry
Dorothy and George

Husbands were

Maisie and Cyril
Jack and Sarah
Rebeca (Rebe) and (I think Frank I never met him her first husband was called Eddie though)

Feel a bit guilty about that will have to find out in August when hubbies home.

Florence (Floss), Julie, Marjorie (Madge), Olive, Margaret
William (Bill), George, Edward (Ted), Kenneth

ooh forgot Samuel (Sam)

Hilda and Frank

Winnifred (Known as Kit) and Bertram

Betty and Will (Bill)
Janet and Fred

various great and great great aunts i remember were Rachel, Ida, Mary and Annie Eliza (a favourite of my family for dd but not a fan of Eliza)

My grandparents were:

Albert ("Bert") and Florence ("Florrie")

and

Henry and Frances

All born in the 19th century!

James and Mary
James and Anne.

Sam & Sadie (if I'm allowed more great grandparents that is!)

Mary & Gerry (Gerard)
Lilly (Elizabeth) & Hugh

Jan and Joan
Hughie and Doreen

Daniel and Janet, Derek and Norah. We've used Daniel as DS's middle name already. DH's were Rosie (planning to use this as middle name for the current bump if it's a DD) and Beattie (who was an old cow so won't get a mention). Not sure what his granddads were called.

Love Samuel, this may well turn out to be what we call the bump if it's a DS, with Heath as a middle name as this was my paternal grandmother's family name.

My Mums parents were Winifred and Joseph

My Dads were Kathy (Katherine) and George (who is still alive)

We used Joseph as a middle name for DS and my gran Kathys middle name Olive (modernised to Olivia) for DD to carry on the family names :)

Jack and Kathleen (Kathleen died fairly young, had a step-grandma, Joan)
Frederick and Evelyn

Walter and Bertha
Elizabeth and Robert (I think, Dad's dad who left the family when his wife died leaving them for his MIL to bring up). Great Grandma who brought my dad up was Florence.

I know DH's grandmothers - Joan (still going strong at 86 ) and Phyllis.

My English grandparents were Joseph and Lucy May. Pretty popular names now too.

My paternal grandparents (sadly no longer with us)- were Peter and Florence
My maternal ones- Doreen and Frances. My mum is also Doreen, and was not offended that neither myself or my sister continued the tradition!

Peter is my ds's middle name (and i really wanted Florence for dd2)

I have posted before that the names on my Dad's side were great-
my granny's aunts were Lillian and Alice. Her mother was Harriet, and granny ,Eliza.

All names that could just as easily be 'now' names.

Mine-

Lucy and Harry

Barbara (AKA Bunty) and Maurice (which was his middle name with George being an unused first name)

DP's-

James and Patricia

Robert and Sarah (he thinks...)

Beatrice & Ralph
Alice & Harold

Edith Louisa
Frederick Charles
Cornelius
Bridget
Joseph
Jennifer
Ellen
John