What were your great grandfathers called?

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Following on from the grandmother thread, also looking for an old fashioned name for DS

I only know one and it was Vivian. Apparently he hated it according to my nan

Claude!!

William
John
Edmund
Alfred

So not that unusual today really given they were all born in the 1880s.

Robert and John. Pretty plain and boring really.
I have a gggg grandfather and his father called Zerrubbabel. No idea how working class men in Scotland ended up with that name.

Thomas
Herbert
George
William

All born around 1850ish

Ernest
Frederick
William x2

Serge (Sergei) and Herbert on one side. Not sure about the other side.

The three of mine that I know of were James, John and Robert.

George
Wilfred
Harold
Terrence

Frank, Bramble, John & Charles

Alma
Fred

Thomas Leslie
James
Gordon
Joe (not Joseph, just Joe)

Ralf
Lionel
Charles
Gordon

Moses
Aidan
Adam
Patrick

Denis
two Franks
Christopher

Reuben and George

No idea, but my grandparents would be about 110 by now - grandfathers names were Ernest and Horace.

We have an Ernest in our family he uses his middle name

Uri
Samuel
Joseph

Percival
Richard
Albert
Robert

John
Benjamin
Albert
Brian

Frank
John
Raymond
Unknown as my great grandma was apparently never sure which man it was, which was a fun detail to find in her diaries.

Alfred
John
Rudolph (Rudi)
Per

William, John, Joseph and I’m not sure about the 4th… maybe Peter?

Alfred, John, Frank and Arthur