What were your great grandfathers called?

[salharg]

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

[Squashedraddish]

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

[cecinestpasunepipe]

Claude!!

[PlattyJubes]

William
John
Edmund
Alfred

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

[JesusSufferingFuck22]

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.

[PeppaPigIsBacon]

Ernest
Frederick
William x2

[newtb]

Thomas
Herbert
George
William

All born around 1850ish

[Wigeon]

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

[KohlaParasaurus]

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

[SusieSimpleman]

George
Wilfred
Harold
Terrence

[rhowton]

Frank, Bramble, John & Charles

[Norachance]

Alma
Fred

[Vampirethriller]

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

[Wailywailywaily]

Ralf
Lionel
Charles
Gordon

[BonnyAndBlythe]

Moses
Aidan
Adam
Patrick

[BooksAndHooks]

Denis
two Franks
Christopher

[weathervane1]

Reuben and George

[annabell22]

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

[Isaidnoalready]

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

[GylesBrandrethNewJumper]

Uri
Samuel
Joseph

[CthulhuInDisguise]

Percival
Richard
Albert
Robert

[Sudename]

John
Benjamin
Albert
Brian

[SpaceJamtart]

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.

[PurpleBrocadePeacock]

Alfred
John
Rudolph (Rudi)
Per

[Ilikecheeseontoast]

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

[Ladyface]

Alfred, John, Frank and Arthur