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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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60sname · 12/09/2018 09:58

Joyce (1890s)
Gertrud (1920s)

shakeatailfeather · 12/09/2018 09:59

Jessie and Alma

Others of same generation
Ethel Dora
Gertrude Edna
Elsie
Margaret
Alice May - always called May
Kathleen

Ggm that i know of - Rosetta and Margaret (peggy).

ilovewelshrarebit123 · 12/09/2018 10:00

Iris, she's 98 and still going strong! Grin

NotAQueef · 12/09/2018 10:01

Elizabeth (Liz)
Anastasia (known as Stasia pronounched stay-sha)

TwittleBee · 12/09/2018 10:03

Elizabeth and Jean x3

Mummyoftwo91 · 12/09/2018 10:03

Linda and Maura

ruby1234 · 12/09/2018 10:03

Florence and Mary

cindersrella · 12/09/2018 10:09

I have/had a
Nan- Maureen 'mo'
Nan- Dorothy 'Ann'
Grandad- John
Grandad-Reginald 'Reg'

PavlovaFaith · 12/09/2018 10:14

Joan Margaret
Margaret Isobel

ImNotWhoYouThinkIam · 12/09/2018 10:15

Audrey May and Ena Joyce. (Both born in the 30s)

CarefullyDrawnMap · 12/09/2018 10:17

Doroteia and Vera. I think both names are nice and seem quite usable now.

Sophronia · 12/09/2018 10:47

Rosemarie
Agnes Vivien

Great grans were Kitty Iris, Ada Matilda Ann, Adelaide Georgina and Mary.

Great great grans were Louisa, Grace, Margaretta, Sarah Emily, Agnes, Isobel Lucy, Helena and Agnes.

Cosmoa · 12/09/2018 10:48

May and Inez ❤️

Directorofmishaps · 12/09/2018 10:49

Dylis and Alice
Sarah and Catherine

Powerless · 12/09/2018 10:49

Edith and can't remember the other as she died a long time before I was born

GoldenBuns · 12/09/2018 10:49

Lily and Lola

KeefBurtain · 12/09/2018 10:51

Margaret Amelia and Gwendolyn Alice

yellowplumpreserves · 12/09/2018 11:02

Here are the ones I know the names of going back a few generations. It’s interesting to see how common certain names were.

Grandmothers: Mary and Barbara

Great-grandmothers: Rachel, Mary Jane, Sarah and Rebecca

Great-Great grandmothers: Isabella, Jane, Mary, Elizabeth, Selina, Bridget

Great-great-great grandmothers: Isabella, Jemima, Annie, Rebecca, Mary, Margaret, Margaret, Jane, Rosanna, Annie, Judith, Elizabeth

GGGG Grandmothers: Ellen, Frances, Jane, Ellen, Ann, Rachel, Margaret, Janet, Janet

MissCherryCakeyBun · 12/09/2018 11:11

My grandmothers
Winifred Rose & Josephine Frances
My mums GM's
Emma Valentine & Elizabeth Rose
My Dads
Frances Louisa & Amelia Lily

My Daughters dads mother was Frances Joan

My daughter is Joanne Frances, as my MIL died of Motor Neurone disease while I was pregnant and my Nanna died when I was tiny too so she is named after both of them

ThomasRichard · 12/09/2018 11:15

Dorothy and Margaret

MyFamilyAndOtherAnimals1 · 12/09/2018 11:39

Margaret and Lorna (1930's)

spiderlight · 12/09/2018 11:41

Esther Mary and Mary Elizabeth, always known as May.

askthebarista · 12/09/2018 11:42

Mary and Margaret.

HeyMicky · 12/09/2018 12:09

Grandmothers Dorothy and Una
Great grandmothers Christina, Sarah, Clara and Violet

Discobabe98 · 12/09/2018 12:14

Matilda (Tillie) and Irene