What were your grandmothers called?

[wildpoppy]

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

Doreen and Irene.....they will never be come back names!

Greta and Joan.

Florence and Patricia

Patricia and Nita.
I adore one of my nan's sister's names, and would have loved to have used it for DD, but they fell out and haven't spoken for 20 years

Olga & Vera (DH) and Frances

Edith Jane and Sarah (known as Sally).
I was almost Sarah-Jane after them (it's better than my actual name, which is one of the not-back-in-fashion names on this thread!)

Xanthe wish I named DD after her but it's a bit much

Katherine on other side

Both called Betty!

Great aunts etc: Eva, Nelly, Mabel, Margaret, Ella, Meta (pronounced Meat-a). Many more I can't remember.

My granny was one of eight; they were in order:
Marjorie
Dorothy (known as dot)
Maud
Norma
Lorna (norma and Lorna were twins!)
Mabel
Amy

Annoyingly I can't remember the last one!

Miriam (I think it would fit a litte girl too, it's a very sweet name), middle name being Gladys, and Alice, middle name being Lilith. However, the elderly people I know with nice old names include Henrietta, Hepzibah, Evelyn, Rowena, Wendoline, Norma, Esther, Elspeth, Ruth, Verity and Florence.

Had to post on this - my gran was called Vilma.

I bet no one else has a relation called that, never heard anyone else called it (and she wasn't German or anything - know it sounds a bit like it is)

Ida Mary and Beatrice nn Betty

Moira and Brenda. And both HATE their names!

Great Aunt Olive. Can't remember my great grandma's names - they all died either before I was born, not long after, and I only knew the remaining one as 'Gramma'!

Edith and Phyllis

Mary and Ada Gertrude
DD has DH's granny's name as her middle name Irene (pron. Eye-reenie) which I love

Jessie Winifred
(with twin sisters Ivy & Violet)

Proper name Pauline but always known as Paul :)
(sisters Bett, Bar, Jean, Pam, Eve)

Grandmothers and great aunts on both sides - Margaret, Hannah, Alice, Justina, Elizabeth, Theresa, Ophelia

Daisy. Not sure about on my fathers's side.

Doreen and Florence.

This baby may be a Florence.

Edith Caroline and Louisa primrose

GMs - Alice and Margery.
GGMs - Beatrice, Margaret, Jessie and Kitty.

Nellie and Mary
Ggm on mothers side- Helen as was gggm.
One ggggm was called Grietje