Granny/Grandad names - for inspiration...

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I quite like the trend for old names at the moment, So Just a quick survey : What where your grandparents names?

Me:-Robert
Robert Alexander
Gladys Margaret
Jeannie

DH - Murdoch
Sidney
Dorothy Madeline
Helen

Sally
Ralph (pronounced Rafe)
Laurence
Evelyn (pronounced Eve Lynn, not Ev-lyn)

I don't know about DH's side.

Marcin
Davina
John
Margaret (pearl)

OOh Pearl is nice

Mine were

Dorothy
Alexander
Margaret
Thomas

and because we're a complicated family I also have Joan & Leslie

william
gladys wanted for dd4 but vetoed by dh
orissa
james

Alice
Eric

Hilda
Edward

Joseph
Janice
Joan
Minnie
Eric

Peter + Mary
Cathleen (spelled with a C)+John

Harold + Dorothy
Lydia + Harry

Colin Frederick, Muriel Irene, Margaret.

Have been researching my family tree though and going back to the early 1700s onwards, here are a handful...

Theopholis
Walter
Josiah
Alfred
Horace
Albert
Herbert
Geo
Edwin
Orlando
Wash ington
Everard
Godfrey
Matilda
Miriam
Edith
Esther
Sabria
Gwendoline
Lucinda
Nanette
Chri stabel
Sylvie

ME
Margaret
George

Margaret
Alexander

DH
Margaret
John

Margaret
James

No surprise then that my sister, DD1 and DGD2 all have Margaret in their names!

OOOh thanks showofhands
Its just so nice to see a list of "different" names... although Id expect to see a few faces if we called DC3 Theopholis..LOL

Edward and Ina
Horace and Daisy

DP's grandparents were from Serbian & Belarus - so I'll give spelling those a miss! My mum is an Ethel May and her sister a Muriel ...might want to give those a wide berth too!

Glenys
Brian
Thelma
Ernest-john (Jack)

Him

Margaret-Rose
John
Sarah
Edward

Go on I know you wanna go with the name Thelma

Nando -Unfortunately Thelma just doesnt go with our surname... ;)

John & Florence
Elizabeth & Albert also Henry

Beatrice & Albert
Alice & Henry(Harry)

Lois
Shirley
Clayton
John
Margaret
William

Jock and May
Louis and Patricia

My Grandparents:
Margaret and Edgar
Frank and Gladys

DH's Granny is Lila which is lovely[Grin]

Edward and Audrey
Marion and George

Dorothy + Samuel
Irene + Harry
Pamala + George

Me- Peter, florence ( Peter for Ds's mid name), really wanted Florence for dd2)
Francis (frank) Doreen (no plans to use either! Gran and Mum both called Doreen, neither are offended)

used Peter

Me

Henrietta (it's beginning to grow on me)
Jack
Eion
Dorothy

DH

Sheila
Tom
Susan
Alexander

Mine were

Matilda
Lesley
Margaret
Raymond

DH's

Caroline
Rennie
Andrew
Elsie