What were your Great Grandmother’s names?

[Theoldwoman]

Mine were:

Ada Frances
Millicent Margaret

Lizzie and Isobel . I don't know the paternal side .

Janet
Annabella
Jane
Mary

My paternal side*

Mine are:
Hannah
Sarah Charlotte
Emma Amelia
Rosina Sophia

All much lovelier than my own names. I wish I'd known the names when I was naming my DCs!

Mary
Mary
Anna Maria
Crocifisa

Doris
Hilda

Other side - I don’t know! I’ve just realised they’ve always been referred to as grandma surname and I don’t actually know their first names!

Ethel
Vera Esther
No idea about the others.

Clara
Annie Marie
Elizabeth
?

Emily,
Dorothy,
Florence,
Audrey.

Emily,
Dorothy,
Florence,
Audrey.

Florence
Emily
Mary
Mary (married to Joseph 😀)

Emma
Emily
Louise
Unknown

Elsie, Phoebe and no idea about the other two.

Louisa
Hilda
Elsie
Ella

You know what? I’m realising I have no idea!

One of them died when my grand father was 2yo. I have never heard about my great grand parents on my father’s side.

My great grandmothers were
Grace and Lillian on my mother's side Jane and Mary on my father's side. Born in the 1880s and 1890s

Mary Ann and Eleanor
Helene (can’t do accents) and Mary

Caroline
Minnie
Tabitha
Ellen

Margaret May,
Elizabeth
Gladys and
Voilet May

Sarah Ellen (known as Nellie)
Elizabeth
Margaret
Another Elizabeth

Lilian
Gladys
Mabel
Clara

Cecily Helen

Elizabeth Constance Mortimer Frances

Genevieve Violette Millicent

Neither side of my family is posh OR French 🤷‍♀️ and subsequent generations have bog standard first name and one middle name

Hannah (born in 1858)
Isabella (born in 1855)
Mary Jane (? date, but prob same decade)
Bella (ditto)
My grandmothers were born in the 1880s, and my mother in 1916, the youngest of 8.
It’s quite a thought that only 3 generations link me back to the 1850s!

Ada
Jane
Mary (x2)