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What are the names of your grandparents and great grandparents if you know them?

126 replies

HoneyandRum · 30/01/2013 10:26

Ethel and James (Jim)
Josephine and George (First husband Walter died)

Can't remember my GGPs names except Fanny

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tass1960 · 31/01/2013 19:33

Helen (Nellie) and Tom, GGM Rosie
Jessie and William (Bill)

Harrysmummysarah1 · 31/01/2013 19:34

Joan and Samuel (Sammy) dads parents
Joan and Robert (bobby) mums parents.

Great grandparents on dads side:
Elsie and William

On mums side:
Margaret and Charles

thegreylady · 31/01/2013 19:37

Grandparents Sally and Jim
Alice and Elias
GGP I only know Harriet and Robert but I am a generation older than most of you :) My parents were Ruth and James and dh's were Mary and Thomas

HerRoyalNotness · 31/01/2013 19:39

GP Walter and Annie
GGP Ernest and Ruby
GP Thomas and Elsie

Groovee · 31/01/2013 19:39

Grandparents were Betty and Charles and Peter and Harriet. I know 3 of my great grandparents were Harriet, Robert and Sarah.

SorrelForbes · 31/01/2013 19:41

GP:
Frances and Arthur
Tilly and Henry

GGP:
Mary and Thomas. Jemima and Abraham
Rebecca and Lewis, Millie and Isaac

GGGP:
Jane and Thomas. Ellen and Charles. Emma and Joseph. Ann and Walter
Adelaide and Simon.

RueDeWakening · 31/01/2013 19:42

George, Geoffrey, Charles, Thomas, William, Tom, Samuel, Leslie.

Nora, Lucy, Mabel, Eliza, Florence, Joyce, Mary Ann, Margaret.

Ithinkineedtogrowapair · 31/01/2013 19:51

Jean
Agnes
George
Alexander
Ursula
Florence
Probably david

Are the ones I can remember!

MrsMaryCooper · 31/01/2013 20:00

Isabella
Janet
Bruce
James

IncognitoIsMyFavouriteWord · 31/01/2013 20:03

Grandma is Joan and Grandad is Lawrence

I love Lawrence not Joan Smile

lizzypuffs · 31/01/2013 20:03

GPs - Edward and Elsie and Abraham and Elizabeth
GGPs - John, Herbert and Lucy are the only ones I know

Hulababy · 31/01/2013 20:16

GPs: Ethel, Kenneth, Harry Lionel, Dorothy Joan

GGPs: Dinah, Joseph Reginald, Walter Hubert, Ada, Arthur, Bertha, George William, Martha Annie

GGPs: Andrew, Mary, Joseph, Emiline, William, Martha E, Thomas, Mary Imogen Maria, John, Annie, John William, Esther Winifred, George, Ada Ann, William, Mary

I can go further back on each strand, some to 10th great grandparents, a couple before that.

I find the names really interesting to compare over the generations.

BacardiNCoke · 31/01/2013 20:20

GP Ethel and Edward, Annie and Vincent.

GGP Elizabeth was my mum's grandmother, I don't know the others' names.

yoyo123 · 31/01/2013 20:24

grandparents

Harry (Henry), Alice, Robert (Rob) and Caroline Daisy (known as Daisy)

Great Grandparents only know Alfred.

deleted203 · 31/01/2013 20:25

GP on Dad's side - Sid and Gladys
GP on Mum's side - Alec and Edna

GGP on Dad's side - John and Betsy/James and Sarah
GGP on Mum's side - Reuben and Annie/Frederick and Mildred

marriednotdead · 31/01/2013 20:26

Frank, Julius, Ivy and Mary.

DontCallMeBaby · 31/01/2013 20:27

Grandparents - Doris, Cyril, Donald, Muriel

Grandparents - Florence and Hubert are the only ones I know. One is genuinely unknown, and I do know something interesting about one great-grandmother - she was shipwrecked twice - I've just forgotten her name!

Francagoestohollywood · 31/01/2013 20:29

Love the names of your gp OP.

Mine were Italian and:

Anna and Giovanni (Nanni)
Rosa and Marco

I only remember the names of my grandmother Rosa's parents:

Francesca and Felice (which means Happy)

Francagoestohollywood · 31/01/2013 20:31

I am actually loving 99% of the names on this thread.

Crikeyblimey · 31/01/2013 20:35

On dad's side - Annie and Bobbie
Mum's parents - Daniel and Esther
Great grandparents (the names I can remember right now) - Elizableth Anne (I have a sampler made by her in 1871 on the wall in our sitting room), Daniel, Henry, Katherine (Kitty).

Haylebop12 · 31/01/2013 20:38

GPs are Shirley and John, Doris and Daniel.

GGP is Ida, only one I know.

Hulababy · 31/01/2013 20:42

I have found my summary of grandparent's names...

GPs: Ethel, Kenneth, Harry Lionel, Dorothy Joan

GGPs: Dinah, Joseph Reginald, Walter Hubert, Ada, Arthur, Bertha, George William, Martha Annie

GGPs: Andrew, Mary, Joseph, Emiline, William, Martha E, Thomas, Mary Imogen Maria, John, Annie, John William, Esther Winifred, George, Ada Ann, William, Mary

GGGPs: John, Alice, Joseph, Sarah, Benjamin James, Annie, John, Ann, Thomas, Mary Ann, Frederick, Elizabeth, William, Ann, William, Sarah Jane, Thomas, Hannah, William, Mary Ann, George, Sarah, John, Ann, George, Sarah E, Young, Mary Jane, Thomas, Ann,

GGGGPs: William, Dinah, William, Millicent, George, Maria, James, Ann, John, James, Jane, William, Robert, Ann, William, Eliza, William, Ann, John, Maria, John, Elizabeth, Robert, Hannah, Thomas, Hannah, John, Isabella, Henry, Sarah, John, Elizabeth, William, Elizabeth, George, Elizabeth,

GGGGGPs: George, Mary, John, Ann, Edward, Mary, Benjamin, Frances, Henry, Elizabeth, Thomas, Mary, John, Mary, John, Theodosia, Ann, James, Mary, Samuel, Elizabeth,

GGGGGGPs: James, Mary, Joseph, Susannah, John, Mary, William, Martha, James, Elizabeth, Thomas, Sarah, John, Mary,

GGGGGGGPs: William, Elizabeth, Edward, Penelope, John, Elizabeth, Thomas, Elizabeth, John, Mary,

GGGGGGGGPs: Edward, Hannah, John, Jennet, James, Anne, Thomas, Elizabeth, Benjamin, Mary,

So back to 10th generation for me.

I guess the more unusual names include Young, Gervase and Theodosia.
The very well used ones are Elizabeth, William, John, Ann and Mary.

Find the names really interesting.

Hulababy · 31/01/2013 20:44

Have a couple of names for further back, and one to 12th century - but not confirmed those yet so not included in that summary.

aristocat · 31/01/2013 20:50

Katherina and Johann

Katherina and Stepas

Sadly I only ever knew/met one GM

Dramajustfollowsme · 31/01/2013 20:58

GPS: George, Margaret, Alfie and Peggy
Ggps: Duncan, Christian, Herbert, Jayne, Alfie, Margaret, Douglas and Ishbelle