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What are/were your Grandmothers called?

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MrsFoxPlus4 · 12/09/2018 02:12

Following from the grandad thread because it’s fascinating.

I had a granny Jessie.
Nana Elizabeth & Nancy.
Great gran Cecilia & Bessie but I can’t temebe Bessie’s full name.

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whodoyoufollow · 13/09/2018 22:50

Nanny Morgan (bless her cotton socks no longer with us)
Nana Freeman

llangennith · 13/09/2018 22:52

Wynn and Brenda. Certainly wouldn't lumber any DDs with either of those names.

AlliKaneErikson · 14/09/2018 00:15

Gwynneth and Dorothy. GGM were Edith and Rose Esther (the ones I met, anyway).

Choccywoccyhooha · 14/09/2018 00:19

Joan and Hilda.

YerAuntFanny · 14/09/2018 00:23

Mary and Kathleen.

glagdy · 14/09/2018 00:30

Audrey June Joyce

Ruby Joyce

Madeline

Giggorata · 14/09/2018 00:45

Margaret and Alicia

DeadButDelicious · 14/09/2018 07:29

Doris and Joan. I also had an Aunt that I was very close too growing up (near enough a Nan) called Rose.

Doris is now DD's middle name, I was very close to my Nan and I initially wanted it as her first name (Dottie as a nickname) but the husband had his heart set on what is now her first name and it flowed better with Doris as a middle name rather than the other way round so we went that way.

Stormsurfer · 14/09/2018 07:44

Sadie and Elizabeth.

Flowerfae · 14/09/2018 07:49

Joan and Esther

MawkishTwaddle · 14/09/2018 08:26

Molly and Alice.

Outfoxed · 14/09/2018 14:34

Joan and Janet

BlackEyedOwls · 14/09/2018 14:37

Maria and Daria. Vasilissa was my gg.

1mouse2 · 14/09/2018 14:38

Morfydd and Dorothy

MissCalamity · 14/09/2018 23:26

Doris & Olive

someonekillbabyshark · 14/09/2018 23:52

Elsie and Doreen

Ymamiss · 15/09/2018 22:16

Welsh grandmother was Mary Eirlys (but used Eirlys as first name - it means snowdrops)
English grandmother Margaret Joan.

YeTalkShiteHen · 15/09/2018 22:20

Eirlys is a beautiful name!

hungryhippie · 15/09/2018 22:30

Lilian and Marian

DuggeeHugs · 15/09/2018 22:57

Edna and Kate.

GGMs: Naomi, Alice, Agnes, Isabella

WutheringFrights · 15/09/2018 23:00

Both of mine were Winifred Mary .... if we’d had a DD2 she would have been a Winifred.

NaToth · 15/09/2018 23:24

Fanny (so maybe not a goer) and Emma, due for a revival.

firawla · 15/09/2018 23:28

Noreen and Margaret

TheGirlWhoLived · 15/09/2018 23:32

Olive rosemary Joan
And
Valerie Howard!

butterfly56 · 16/09/2018 00:05

GMs....Agnes and Fanny
GGMs... Bridgette and Harriett
GGGMs... Eliza and Augusta