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What were your Great Grandmother’s names?

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Theoldwoman · 25/06/2022 15:17

Mine were:

Ada Frances
Millicent Margaret

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MrsAvocet · 26/01/2023 21:54

Eva, Alice and two Sarahs.

pairofrollerskates · 27/01/2023 13:39

Mary Mary Mary Mary!

TheIsaacs · 27/01/2023 14:17

Edith
Ellen
Amy
Maud

LittleCactus · 27/01/2023 18:07

Alice, Joan, Mabel and I don't know the other one!

mrsflurph · 27/01/2023 19:31

Mollie (Mary)
Bertha
Joan
Constance

Utterlyexhausted · 27/01/2023 19:33

Agnes Antoinette
Margaret

Xenia · 27/01/2023 19:35

Ann Jane
Mary Ann
Mary
Mary

Wow, that's boring. They were born from 1839 to 1876.

BigPurpleArm · 27/01/2023 19:37

Rowena
Charlotte
Aimee
Mabel

UnicornRainbowSky · 27/01/2023 22:52

I only know the name of one but that one is quite something: Kreszenz
To be pronounced in a German accent

SemperIdem · 27/01/2023 23:35

Florence
Anne
Elen
Rebecca

Create10 · 27/01/2023 23:55

Hannah, Margaret, Elizabeth and Dorothy.

Create10 · 27/01/2023 23:59

Luredbyapomegranate · 27/06/2022 00:07

@IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads

How were they born 200 years ago?!?! how old are you?!

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My oldest great grandparents was born in 1868. When I'm in my 70s (which many Mumsnet users are) they'll have been born 200 years ago. It's not that unusual or surprising.

Create10 · 28/01/2023 00:00

*greatgrandparent

SemperIdem · 28/01/2023 00:35

HoboHippo · 22/01/2023 22:16

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

That seems like an unusual number of great grandmothers - biologically it can only be four?

HoboHippo · 28/01/2023 07:12

SemperIdem · 28/01/2023 00:35

That seems like an unusual number of great grandmothers - biologically it can only be four?

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GG = great-great. I've already done my great grandmothers upthread.

Glorieta · 28/01/2023 07:18

Mary
Isabella
Anabel
Gertrude

VioletCharlotte · 28/01/2023 07:34

I've just realised I only know two of mine - Ada and Louise. I must find out what the others were.

Xenia · 28/01/2023 10:20

Mine above were great grandmothers. The one born in 1839 had 10 children including 7 sons of which my grandfather was the very last born in 1880. He married a bit late and my father was his last child born when my grandfather was 48 and then my parents did not have children until their 30s and I am over 60 which is how we get back to 1839 for my oldest great grandmother.

If we moved to great great ones that would be 8 of them and they are:
Mary
Frances
Isabella
Isabella (another Isabella)
Ann
Margaret
Mary (another Mary)
Catherine

(Born 1803 to 1852)

(I have done our family tree which is why I know all this. It is very interesting)

Melsy88 · 28/01/2023 13:08

Dora, May, Maude and Hettie

BridieConvert · 28/01/2023 18:10

Elizabeth
Charlotte
Mary-Jane
I'm not sure of the last one!

Mrsjayy · 28/01/2023 18:13

Isobel and Annie. I have no idea the other 2

xyzzyx · 28/01/2023 18:13

Nora
Edith
Winifred
Annie

AnotherSpare · 28/01/2023 18:21

Lucy, Emily, Elizabeth, Amelia.
All born 1900-1910 but could easily fit today!

Oldandcobwebby · 28/01/2023 18:25

Ellen Maud
Alice Elizabeth
Bertha
Annie May

DorritLittle · 29/01/2023 16:36

Create10 · 27/01/2023 23:59

My oldest great grandparents was born in 1868. When I'm in my 70s (which many Mumsnet users are) they'll have been born 200 years ago. It's not that unusual or surprising.

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My great grandmother was born in 1878, 100 years before me. It seems astonishing that my mum (74) had a Grandmother born in the 1800s. Her oldest great grandparent was born around 1840.