Only old and codgerly suggestions wanted thank you.

[MrsPScholfield]

The suggestions are to go with (already we have) The dds first and subsequent names.

Dora
Eliza
Henrietta
Mary
Iris
Anne

Boys on the list are Henry and Arthur but no ideas for girls.

I have a theory that one day dd's names will be in vogue and people will like them

Feel free to say they are hideous, I care not. (skin like a rhino) but I will hunt you down etc...

Ethel
margaret
gertrude
Ira
Winnifred (winnie)

Albert
sheldon
henry
mortimer
charles

Thanks we have a shortlist.

Maude
Polly
Clementine
Margarita (maggie) being the favourite right now.

I think best slot in with our lot- although there were so many fantastic old and dusty names in the lists provided many of which made me smile.

Thanks for all suggestions.

That was easy!

Viscount Linley's daughter is Margarita.

Bertha
Bessie
Ronald
Donald
Job

I think Winnifred is such a wonderful versitile name - Winnie, fred, freddie and no one else will have the same name in class

Miriam

Absolutley lovely, and I don't know of one

Can't think of many boys names that aren't coming back

Laurence
Dennis
Roderick
Eric
Ralph
Victor

I love the fact you shortlisted Clementine.

We have a Clementine who is now 13 months. She was named after Clementine Churchill who was one of our strongest ladies in history. Behind every great man there is an even greater women!

I know you have your shortlist and I love them all. Just had to add Peternell from our family tree in the 1700s. Suppose it was a different form of Petronella.

Millicent

Percy
Walter
Reginald - Reg, or reggie
Harold
Edgar
Hedley
Sydney

Minnie
Jessie
Blanche
Ethel
Lilian
Gladys
Clara
Effi e

Ursula
Vivienne
Elsie
Marianne
Maggie..(sweet)
Catherine
Teresa

I love your names.

Have you thought about Thora or Edna. Great robust and rather lovely grandma names.

Just noticed that near the bottom my name is mentioned in this thread. I am officially old and codgerly!

So is my Gran's (and dd2's middle - same) names.

Cecily
Cordelia
Mabel

My twin girls are Blythe and Elsie. Hardly anyone's called Blythe anymore, yet it means to be happy.

How many daughters do you have MrsP?
I love Polly (not Pollyanna - too twee). As in Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf. Wonderful books.
Maude or Maud is very pretty but quite trendy.

Meredith.

Sheila
Angela
Marie
Phoebe
Evelyn
Muriel
Miriam

These are my actual great aunts and grannies

My niece is called Felicity which means 'happiness'.

haven't read whole thread so may have been said already

Mildred

I love Edith, shortened poss to Edie.
But DH won't hear of it and so fantasy DD is already named Maggie Cornelia June after a great grandmother, a great great aunt and another great grandmother respectively!

dorcas
desdemona - mona
dorothy - dorty
miriam - midge

Gladys!

Christiana
Evangelina
Laura
Lilian
Marjory
Margeret
Violet
Elizabeth
Victoria
Dora
Joan
M arian
Elsie
Stella

My nanna's are;
NanCy and Doreen
love the former - really unsure about the latter