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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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MumOfMissy · 31/01/2013 21:00

Hulababy just think, all those people in your list shagged each other to produce you! The mind boggles..,

Some of mine:
GP:
Elsie
Patrick
Eileen
Frederick

GGP:
Alphonse
Jessie
James
Helena
William

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ByTheWay1 · 31/01/2013 21:01

GPs Sylvia and William, Juniper and Seymour

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Hulababy · 31/01/2013 21:02

lol! True of course - but yes, very odd thought.

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Chottie · 31/01/2013 21:07

Charles and Florence
Arthur and Elizabeth

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babyboomersrock · 31/01/2013 21:09

GPs: Maud and William
Jessie and Robert

GGPs: Jessie and Frank
Mary and Robert
Elizabeth and William
Unknown

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craftycottontail · 31/01/2013 21:25

Neil
Margaret
William (Willy / Bill)
Chrissie (Christina)
Norman
Effie (Euphemia)
John

Loads ofrecurring themes in my family trees - Norman and William are father/son themes, with lots of Donald, John, Ronald, Katy / Catherine / Kitty

Not a very inventive bunch!!

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Yoghurty · 31/01/2013 21:26

GP's
Eileen and Stanley (Stan)
Blanche and Percival (Percy)

GGP's
Ivy and Fred
And I don't know my dad's GP's names.


I love the name Blanche, wish it was my name!

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tallulah · 31/01/2013 21:54

GPs Frank, Albert, Lucy, Flora

GGPs Arthur, Albert, William, John

Bertha, Lily, Alice, Flora

Apart from Bertha, sounds like a list of primary school kids.

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OpheliasWeepingWillow · 31/01/2013 21:58

Mabel, Arthur, Annie, Vernon, George, Gertrude, Benjamin

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devonsmummy · 31/01/2013 21:58

g.p. - George & Joyce
Alfred (Mick) & Elsie
Ggp - Mildred
Rose & George
Gladys

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HorraceTheOtter · 31/01/2013 21:59

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NormanTheForeman · 31/01/2013 22:00

Grandparents Edith and John, Nana and George

GGPs Andrew, Mary, Thomas, Sarah, Henry, Eliza, George, Julia

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marriedinwhite · 31/01/2013 22:03

Grandparents: David and Alice; Rainer and Ana
Great Grandparents: Frank and Eleanor; Nicolas and Irena

DH: Ethel and Fred; Annie and John
Don't know about GGPs

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SanityClause · 31/01/2013 22:06

GP Tello and Ruth, Herbert and Joyce

I only know one GGP's name and as its mine and it's unusual, I won't post it, as it will out me.

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NormanTheForeman · 31/01/2013 22:06

Forgot middle names.

GPs - Edith Grace and John Giles, Nana and George Henry

GGPs Julia Eliza and Harry George, Thomas and Sarah, Andrew and Mary Ann Frances, Thomas and Sarah

GGGPs Edward Thomas and Emma, John Charles and Sarah Jane, Ozias and Mary, not known and not known, Andrew and Barbara, the rest not known.

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BikeRunSki · 31/01/2013 22:07

GPs - Rex, Evelyn, Arthur, Helen
GGM - Muriel

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PixelAteMyFace · 31/01/2013 22:08

John and Elsie
Charles and Daisy

Dont know GGPs names, but Great Aunts and Great Uncles were Charles, John, May, Ida, Gertrude and Lois

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Flojobunny · 31/01/2013 22:14

Peggy and Jack

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NormanTheForeman · 31/01/2013 22:15

Sorry got that wrong.

GPs Edith Grace, John Giles, Nana, George Henry

GGPs Julia Eliza, Harry George, Henry John, Eliza Jane, Andrew, Mary Ann Frances, Thomas, Sarah

GGGPs Emma, Edward Thomas, Sarah Jane, John Charles, Sarah, Thomas, John Allen, Mary Jane, Andrew, Barbara, unknown, unknown.

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NormanTheForeman · 31/01/2013 22:17

GGGGPs only ones I know are Ozias and Mary, GGGGGPs were Nathaniel and Susannah, GGGGGGPS were Ozias and Sarah, GGGGGGGPs were Nathaniel and Ann.

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skratta · 01/02/2013 06:45

GP- Shoshannah, Mejer, Issak, Gunnell
GGP- Miriam, Bambi, Saul, Lilja, Andreas, Ingela, Christian, Aeva

There's a clear divide between my Danish Jewish family, so Shoshannah, Mejer, Miriam, Saul, as well as Lilja and Bambi, who married into the family, and my Swedish family, by name.

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MidnightMasquerader · 01/02/2013 08:37

Ron(ald) and Isobel
Hamish and Jeanne

Ellen and Tony
Bridget and Michael

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KelleStar · 01/02/2013 08:47

Margaret (Meg) and James (Jimmy)
Desmond and Myra

Lena, Bertha (Bea) & Doris
James, Jack & Albert.

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Lyftiduft · 01/02/2013 22:15

Alan, John, Rose, Eileen (Eily), all born between 1910-1925

  • siblings (my great aunts/uncles- only knew two of them) included Doreen, Elsie, Eric, Doris, Leonard (Len), Lilian, Henry, Caroline (Carrie), Jessie, William, Richard, Kathleen, Phyllis and Dorothy (Dot)



GGPs- Richard, Grace, Joseph, Catherine, William, Frances (Fanny), Albert, Frederica
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Newtothisstuff · 01/02/2013 22:19

Ggp...violet and Walter and Beatrice and Albert

Gp Albert and doreen and Jacqueline and George

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