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What were your great grandfathers called?

235 replies

salharg · 25/06/2022 19:25

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

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Rodneytrotterslovechild · 25/06/2022 20:58

My grandfather/great grandfather on my dads side where called Leonard (married to Louisa) and Ernest (married to rose)-my great grandfather was called James (married to Sarah)

my mothers side-Fredrick (married to Sylvia) and haven’t got a clue what his parents where called-they where evil and never bothered with us as kids

BlackLambAndGreyFalcon · 25/06/2022 20:59

Douglas, Johanes, Thomas and Nils

Gingerkittykat · 25/06/2022 21:09

William
Joseph
Robert
Alexander

Pretty boring really.

HahahaBoomBoom · 25/06/2022 21:10

Arthur
George
Lawrence
Samuel

girljulian · 25/06/2022 21:11

Lindsay, John, Paul and John. Lack of imagination!

WhatIsThisPlease · 25/06/2022 21:11

George and Adam

SommerTen · 25/06/2022 21:15

Reece William
Charles Bloomfield
Alexander Muir
Joseph Morris

As you can see, two of them had their mother's surnames as middle names...apparently this was a Victorian thing.

StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 25/06/2022 21:19

William
John?
Edmund
George

lizziesiddal79 · 25/06/2022 21:21

Albert Edward
John Henry William
James
Henry James

Blueuggboots · 25/06/2022 21:21

Francis Mossum (known as Moss)
Reuben

mrsjackrussell · 25/06/2022 21:21

William, john, Ronald and Elias.

muimpre · 25/06/2022 21:23

Finn
James
Cole
Henry

ElizabethCaroline · 25/06/2022 21:25

Thomas Denis Jack Joseph

wizbit93 · 25/06/2022 21:28

Richard
Robert
John
Meinhard

Poshjock · 25/06/2022 21:32

I love Reuben as a name.

Bernd Uldrich (norwegian)
Robert
Duncan
Alexander

All very typical Scottish names apart from the Norwegian Sailor!

MrsMigginsCat · 25/06/2022 21:33

Charles, Percy, Henry and William.

Runnerduck34 · 25/06/2022 21:39

Thomas
James
Albert
John

Abraxan · 25/06/2022 21:40

My great grandad's names were

Joseph Reginald
Walter Harry
George William
Arthur

RaininSummer · 25/06/2022 21:41

I have just realised that I have no idea what my great grand fathers were called.

AliceMcK · 25/06/2022 21:42

Patrick
Thomas
Edward
Patrick

Morph22010 · 25/06/2022 21:43

Thomas, george, Laurence and Michael

TitInATrance · 25/06/2022 21:43

John, William, Abel, James

almondflake · 25/06/2022 21:45

Kinross James and Clarence Bourne they were there Christian names not surnames

Whatisgoingonhere · 25/06/2022 21:47

Hugh, Harold and Joseph

MrsMaverick · 25/06/2022 21:52

Albert
Henry
David
?

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