What were your grandmothers called?

[wildpoppy]

I think I like old fashioned names - anyone care to share what their grandmothers/great-grandmothers were called.

Grandmothers and great aunts (both sides - me and DH):

Margaret (Peg), Ada, Adeline (Addie), Phyllis, Gladys, Mary, Bernice, Muriel, Marien, Clarice, Marjorie, Margaret, Bridgit, Winifred, Ellonor (Nellie), Minnie (probably a nn but I don't know what for).

grandmothers : Evelyn Anne and Bertha Catherine
Dh grandmothers : Elizabeth Ida, Isabel Frances
great-grandmothers : Gertrude Elizabeth, Annie Florence, Catherine Helen, Florence Alice (Ada)
DH great grandmothers : Edith, Elizabeth Anne, Martha, Ada Belle

Ones I particularly dislike : Bertha, Gertrude, Ida, Florence, Edith and Ada. The rest are fine.

Mine were/are Joan and Eliza Ayronwen. DH's were Pamela and Lily (although she hated Lily - too old fashioned(!) - and went by her middle name, Patricia!)

Violet and Sarah[Sal]

GMs - Sarah ( known as Jean) & Joan ( her parents wanted to call her Jo-ann but vicar refused to christen with that name).

GGMs Sarah ... no idea about the other 3.

GGGM - I'd hazzard a guess that one was a Sarah ... seems to have been a family name.

Lilian (Lil) and Vera. Two very special ladies.

Florence and Ellen

Helen(Nelly) and Alice

Grandma's: Pille and Adeele
Great-Aunts: Tiiu, Leelo, Armiine, Rosie, Anette

Jean and Marion. DD (2 weeks old) has Jean as a middle name.

Great aunts were Nina, Brenda, Nora, Nancy, Audrey, Olive, Mary, Eileen and Margaret.

Eva and Winniefred (sp?)

Lovely names from my family tree:

Grace
Isabel Sarah known as Sadie
Ida Victoria
Eva Catherine
Rubina Evelyn
Florence Amelia
Melony sometimes called Melina
Elizabeth Rosemond
Louisa Sophia
Blanche
Phoebe

Not so lovely IMO (will these be part of the Edwardian comeback??)
Maud
Ethel
Mercy
Augusta

Hilda and Eileen, they seem to have cropped up a lot. Lovely way to commemorate them, miss them so much esp since DS was born.... My mum's maternal grandma was Violet. :)

Marie Antionette (and married surname began with a D! ) and Elizabeth Eve. Step grandmother is Ruth Ellen.

Jessica and Ruby

My grandmothers are Sylvia and Dorothy. DHs are Margaret and Elizabeth.

We both had a great grandmother called Rose. Although mine was offically Florence but no one knew that until she died. Not even her children.

Edna (with older sisters Annie nn Nancy, and Mary)
Marjorie

McKayz, my mum is Margaret Elizabeth- my grandma always used to have to explain that she was named after her grandmothers/ great aunts, not the princesses!

Grandmothers were Annie and Margaret (Maggie)
Great Grandmothers were Ann, Margaret, Alice and Stella
DHs Grandmothers were Hazel and Joan. I think his GGM was Emma.

Dorothy (Doll as a nn, she was married to a ted so they were dolly and teddy ) and Yvonne

Susie Constance and Mabel for grandmothers.

My great-grandmothers were Georgiana, Amy Florence and Maria. Don't know what the last one was.

One of DH's grandmothers was Lilian. No idea about the other.

Maternal: Gladys
Paternal: Dorothy
DH's maternal : Florence (our DDs middle name)
DH's paternal : Marjorie

I think we picked the best of a bad bunch for our DD!

Lavinia and Marina

Lily and Florence.