What were your grandparents / great-grandparents called?

[MisselthwaiteManor]

Or any suggestions for Victorian or Edwardian English names?

[lynzie68]

Freda,hylton x2, Elizabeth x3, Hannah, George, Stanley, Margaret, dinah, Ruth.
Sitting with fil so asked him his ; Elizabeth x2, Harry, winnie, tom. that's all he knows.

[AgathaPinchBottom]

Grandparents: Reginald Percy, Annie, Leonard and Esther
Great aunts and uncles: Harold, Eva, Ruth Wilfred, Frank and Benjamin
Great grandparents: Nelly, Charles, Sarah
Great great grandparents: Maude, Clara, Nancy, William

[rhetorician]

grandparents: Leonard, Catherine (2nd wife Gertrude ), Florence, Sidney.

Don't know names of all great grandparents: Rosa, Jack, John...

[MoelFammau]

GPs: Gladys, Brenda, Norman & Ernest
GA/U: Neville, Isa, Percy, Daisy, Eric, Edward, Iris

GGPs: Wilfred, Nellie, Henry and Polly

[FarelyKnuts]

Ceinwyn, Arthur, Joseph, Nancy, Glenys, Wayne, Beverly, Lynette, Kenneth, Joan, Catherine, Patricia, Noel, Marie, Frank, Geraldine

[elderberryspokes]

GGP's: George & Harriet, Albert & Esther, Hartley & Eliza, John & Jane.

Other common family names: Joseph, Phoebe, Arthur, Alice ... and special mention to the brave GGGM who called her firstborn son Theophilus!

[beckslovestimmy]

Charles, Edith, Raymond and Betty ( not short for anything) .

[Ruththetooth]

Between DH and I there's Ronald, James x 2, Wilfred, Veronica, Bessie, Joan and Peggie. Used James for DS's middle name.

[waitingtobeamummy]

Not sure of great grandparents but grandparents are: mabel, Maurice, frank, kathleen.

[Happyasapiginshite]

GPs Michael and Margaret; Bernard and Brigid.
Great aunts/uncles - Babe (Julia), Bel (Elizabeth), Maud, Daniel, Bat (Bartholemew), Jeremiah, Patrick

[goldenlula]

My grandparents, born between 1900 and 1920 were: Arthur, Eleanor, Percy and Ivy. There middle names were Edward (may have been Albert George too, but not sure), Amy, William and Ellen.

[PilgrimSoul]

Walter, Michael, Patrick, Tom, Peter, Sarah, Kathleen, Ellen, Mary, Annie

[MolotovCocktail]

Grandparents born between 1919 and 1926:

Renee (with an accent over first 'e') and Leslie
Lillian-Amy and James

Great-grandparents, born 1880s approx:

Kate and James
Lillian and Thomas

DHs:

Clarice and Benjamin

[luanmahi]

Gp - Lily and Vincent (known as Lil and Vin), Alfred and Margaret (known as Fred and Meg)

Ggp - Sam, Minnie, Michael, Ada, Alfred, Lillian, Charles, Rebecca

[SnowProbs]

Great grandparents were Violet, Adam, Mary, Patrick, Moses, Anne, Mariah & William

[hatsybatsy]

gps were Jane, Evan, Kenneth and Zana

ggps were William, Rachel, Thomas, Esther, Alfred, Beatrice and 2 unknown....

[meddie]

ggp Hannah and James, Nancy and Albert
GP Annie and Robert. Olive and Richard (all girls had floral/plant names. Violet,Flora,Daisy,Hazel
Most unusual name was a great Aunt called Cyntia (sin-tee-ah) but that was apparently due to a misspelling of Cynthia at the registry office

[ballroompink]

GPs: Robert, Margaret, Sheila, Dennis
GGPs: Percival, Mary, Philip, Patricia, Margaret, John, James, Ann
GGPs: George, Mary Ann, Margaret, Sarah, George, Edward, Mary, Arthur, Elizabeth, Horace, Sophia, James, Elizabeth, George, Lilla.

[CatPussRoastingOnAnOpenFire]

GPs, Winifred, Thomas, William and Catherine.

[thegreylady]

Ggp only know Harriet, Helen and Matthew
Gp Alice and Elias
Sarah (Sally) and James (Jim)

[Benaberry]

My maternal gp's were Phyllis Rose Mary and Frederick Gaius. No idea on paternal, dad wasn't really in touch and they died when I was very small

I had a great aunt Louisa as well, my middle name comes from her

[Anjou]

Lillian, Hereville (wtf! Never heard of another), Dorothea, Jesse, Thomas, Cecily, Bertram, Lillian (again - popular back then too). Don't know the others. Cool thread! Nice to look back at old names. I actually really quite like Cecily.

[Mintberry]

Stanley and Fay, and Ernest and Frances.

Don't know my GGP names, apart from one which was Abel.

[SPsFanjoIsSantasLittleHoHoHo]

GPs Marjorie and Albert. Gladys and Paul

GGP Lily. Primrose and Robert. Primrose will be 91 this month