What were your grandmothers called?

[wildpoppy]

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

Mums mum was Mary Hay
Dads mum was Esther Rose
Mum was Margaret and sisters were Elizabeth and Jane
Granny Mary had sisters Margaret Elizabeth and Jane (see the link )
Granny Essie sisters were Rhoda, shoshana and Deborah

Hilda and Louisa

Mine were Mary Jane - and she was staunch Irish Catholic! Known as May - on the other side Edith Maude - known as Pat all her life and we only found out her real name when she died!
What is it with Grandmothers giving themselves different names?!

Cecilia Agatha
Mary - called May for short as she was born in May!

Doris and Mary

Also have Great Aunts Mavis and Beryl.

DH's were Miranda and Effisia

Patricia and Beryl

Great grandmas, erm, May (Mary) , Kathy (Catherine) and I don't know the other two.

Jessie/Susan
Lucy/Sarah

Joyce and Irene. Granny was always called 'Joy', which is lovely.

Lots of lovely names on this thread.

Other old family names - Hester, Marie (said like 'marry' not like Marie, so I never knew it was the same name - the emphasis is on the first syllable not the second), Audrey and Constance.

I like Constance as a name but would never use it - too much potential for irony!

I'm loving this thread!

Wow, amazing how many of these names are back in fashion now!
Mine: Helen (always Nell) and Deborah.
DH's: Cynthia and Daphne

I'd love to use any of them for a future DD, they are all just lovely.

Grandmothers and great aunts here.

Evelyn, Beryl, Mary, Gladys, May, Beryl, Emily and Vera

Margaret and Dorothy.

And Great Auntie Rena some of whines kitchen stuff I still have, so I shouldn't have forgotten her.

Margaret and err Margaret

Mother is Margaret, I also have an Aunt Margaret (on the other side).

My middle name is Margaret.

Great Grannies were Margaret, Margaret, Margaret and Rose.

Dd is called Rose. A radical break with tradition there.

Lucy and Flora.

Great Aunts Hilda and Edith (k/a Dolly)

Me: Frances and Tilly
DH: Audrey and Rita
(I prefer mine!)

GGM: Rebecca (Rifka), Mary Jane and Jemima

Theresa and iris. Can't for the life of me think what my great grandma's were called. Among the more unusual of my great aunties names are nora, monica and michaelina (mick-a-lina).

Oh... t0lk just realised my Nanny May was born in May too... DOH!

Pamela & Jean

Dorothy and Elizabeth Wendy, but everyone calls her Wendy. Other nice names from my family are Beryl, June, Dahlia and Frances.

Elsie and Olive

Great Grandmothers: Anna, Doris.

Great Aunts: Grace, Vera, Ellen, Chrissy, Constance, Marjorie, Marie, Anna, Elise, Hannah.

Nice one: Eleanor. Nasty one: Lilian
GGM's were Eleanor, Kate, Johannah and Harriet.

Barbara and Carmel