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Grandfather and Great Grandfather names

64 replies

Boyandgirlmama23 · 19/01/2023 14:34

Looking for an old name.. recently posted about Francis but DP is still unsure. It is my firm favourite

Francis George but to be known and introduced as Frank
I do love just Frank but my other DS has a name which gives him many options when he is older if he choose to use

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Mumofgirls2017 · 19/01/2023 18:56

lawrence
edgar
ernest
leonard
lionel
orson
vincent
clarence
victor
roland
douglas
sidney
stanley
ivor
herbert
arnold
albert
eric
frederick
ivan
walter
wilfred
cedric

GrohlOnAPole · 19/01/2023 19:05

My grandfathers names were Kenneth (Ken) and James (jimmy).

Joolsin · 19/01/2023 19:07

William
Samuel
Irwin
Joseph
Reginald
George

SnowAndIceLobelia · 19/01/2023 19:09

My grandfathers were Albert and John.

DH's grandfathers were Archibald and Jonathan

Pinkdafodils · 19/01/2023 19:22

Vintage names for boys:

Walter
Ted
Winston
August
Archibald
Milton
Silas
Harris
Wiley
Stanley
Bennedict
Otto
Miles
Theodore
Quentin
Grover
Ezra
Caspian
Vance
Jasper

Athenen0ctua · 19/01/2023 19:23

Edmund
Stephen
John
Frank
Peter
William
Edward
Francis
Norman
Derek
Mervyn
Trevor
Henry
Thomas
George
Joseph
James
Lawrence
Gerald
Anthony
Christopher
Arthur

Hadtochangeforthisone · 19/01/2023 19:26

My gf were
Stanley
Ernest
William
Wilfred

crouchingpheasant · 19/01/2023 19:26

Bernard
Patrick
Herbert
James
Michael
Albert
Edward
Henry
Alexander

MrsMitford3 · 19/01/2023 19:28

My grandfathers:

Francis Michael
Robert Duvall (family name)

Neverplayleapfrogwithmrpipes · 19/01/2023 19:31

My grandads were William and James
and my great grandads were
Albert Edward x2
Albert Barlow (Yes Barlow as a middle name)
and James Crosthwaite (The Crosthwaite again is a middle name)

Neverplayleapfrogwithmrpipes · 19/01/2023 19:32

My husband has a great grandfather called Brunel

BellaTheDarkOverlord · 19/01/2023 19:32

We had an ancestor Basil. Not pronounced Bay-sil but Bassil.

itsallgonepetetongagain · 19/01/2023 19:35

@Theoldwoman - Wyndham Francis are my son's middle names! They are family names on my husband's side

Orangebadger · 19/01/2023 19:35

My grandfathers were called Stanley and Harry.
My great grandfathers, Frederick, Albert James, cannot remember the other ones name.

Athenen0ctua · 19/01/2023 19:37

Charles
David
Frederick
Wilfred
Alfred
Albert
Ernest
Jesse
Hugh

Neverplayleapfrogwithmrpipes · 19/01/2023 19:37

Other names going further back into mine and my husbands trees are

Issac
Evan
Wyndham
Stanley
Alfred
Andrus
Abram
Skillion
Clarence

Lulu1919 · 19/01/2023 19:39

Bertie
Sidney
Albert
Raymond
Claude
All names my grandfathers had

cheapskatemum · 19/01/2023 19:40

My Grandfathers' names were:
Stanley
Thomas Harry

I've just realised that I have no idea what my Great Grandfathers were called!

SunSandAndLotsOfGin · 19/01/2023 20:27

My grandfathers were Dennis, Arthur and Jack.
I love Francis.

Ambroserock · 19/01/2023 20:37

Francis is lovely.
Grandfather's names were Arthur Edward and Geoffrey Alan.
Great Grandfather's were James and Joseph.

Krakenes · 19/01/2023 20:39

Mine was called Frank as his full name. Probably not that common now!

TribeD · 19/01/2023 20:48

Not all grandfathers but some of male family members

Cornelius (my favourite of all their names)
Francis
Innes
Robert
Vernon
Michael
Raymond
Henry
David
William
George
James
Frederick
Charles
Dennis
Stanley

The only one I'm not hugely keen on is Raymond.

xprincessxjanetx · 19/01/2023 21:06

I don't know my GGF's names but my GF's were called Dennis and Walter.

FirstnameSuesecondnamePerb · 19/01/2023 21:08

Mine were Charles and Hugo (he was German).

wendywoopywoo222 · 19/01/2023 21:13

I love the name Frank.

My grandfathers were Earnest known as Ernie and Stanley knows as Stan.

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