What were your Great Grandmother’s names?

[Theoldwoman]

Mine were:

Ada Frances
Millicent Margaret

Mums Maternal Nan was Winifred (Winnie)

Mums Paternal Nan was Peggy (I assume she was Margaret on her BC.

Dads Maternal Nan was Jane.

Dads Maternal was Amy. Ironically my sister is named Aimee not after this Amy. My Mum and Dad just liked the name.

Clara
Maria
Josephine
Rosalia

I would need to double check with my mom, but I think
Nancy
Sylvie
Jean
Iris

all beautiful names and one of them is my daughters

Mary Ann.
Charlotte
Elizabeth.
Jane Ann.

Ethel and Dorothy

Not necessarily. My grandfather grew up in an orphanage and didn't know any information about his family so I wouldn't have any details for that part of my family.

Evelyn, Fanny, Louisa, Rivka

Maybe don't go for Fanny.

Eleutheria & Theodouli & Evangelia .

Sorry but I can’t recall the 4th one.

Honestly I don't know but being as my DGPs were born 120 years ago I haven't really got anyone to ask!

Alice
Laura
Kathleen
Florence

I only know one - Carrie, short for Caroline

Aydel Minna and Frieda Hedwig.

Don’t know my Dad’s side of the family at all.

Emily, Nellie (Ellen), Florence and Dorothy

Margaret Ann
Eleanor May
Emma Agnes
Catherine May

All very classic. I knew Eleanor, she died aged about 92 when I was 11.

GG were Amelia, Mary, Sarah Ann, Isabella, Annie, Elizabeth, Emma, Emma

Dorothy
Margaret
Agnes
?????

Dorothy
Mabel
Frances
Blanche

Caroline
Mary
Alice Maud Mary
Francis Ellen

Elizabeth Ellen
Elizabeth
Mary
Sarah Ellen (known as Nelly)

Three were born around 1860 but one (Mary) is a weird outlier and was born in 1845, as far as I can tell from family research. She and her husband had a very large family, my paternal grandmother was the youngest, and she went on to have a similarly large family, of which my father was the youngest. He married in his 30s too. I’m 63 and it feels odd to have a g-grandmother born almost 180 years ago.

Mary Jane
Mariah
Ellen
?

Harriet
Eveline
Mary Elizabeth
Hannah

I like all those; the only one I probably wouldn't give a child now is Mary Elizabeth because she'd be just Mary in everyday use, and to my ear it needs the Elizabeth to pretty it up.

Wilhimina, Annie, Margaret, Margaret

Rose Ann
Margaret Isabelle (known as Peg)
Lizzy (amusingly she called herself Elizabeth in later life but was actually Lizzy on her BC).
Ellen Mary Jane (known as Minnie for some reason)

Jane
Sarah Ann
Ann Maria
Emily Frances

Love this thread!

Louisa, Florence, Sarah and ?