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

Rosina
George
Esther
Carl
Joseph
Getrude
Maisie
Gerald

George Valentine (!)
Albert
Florence May
Mabel

Ernest
Ivy
Deborah
William

Me

Anton + Anna
William + Agnes

DH

Henry and Doris
Henry and Lillian

lillian daisy and john thomas

david and maureen jeanette

Me -
Doris
Len (Leonard)
Nancy
Walter

DH -
Dick (Richard)
Gladys
Arthur
Trixie

Mary Elizabeth (known as May)
Melville George
Esther Mary
Daniel

Me-
Elsie
Harry
Lydia
Albert

Dp-
Doris
Harley
Pearl
Percy

Me:
Ronald (Ron)
Isobel
Hamish
Jeanne

Him:
Ellen (Ellie)
Anthony (Tony)
Michael (Mickey)
Bridget (or maybe it was spelt Brigid)

Winifred May
Lilian
Eric
Thomas Herbert

Some grand- and great-aunts and uncles:
Rose
Cicely Amy
Elinor (love this name and spelling)
Julia
Dorothy
Robert
John (Jack)
May (Polly)
Harold
Mabel
Marion
Harry
Percy
Philip

I love old fashioned names! There are some great ideas on this thread.

My grandparents are/were:

Tom and Dorothy
Elizabeth (but called Wendy, her middle name) and Donald.

DHs are/were:

John and Barbara
Alan and Valerie.

DH and I have already decided that if we have a boy in the future we will name him after my paternal great-grandad who was called Leonard.

grandparents:
Martha Agnes
Vernon James
Elsie Marie
Anthony Michael

great grandparents:
Nora Marie
James Henry
can't remember the next set...
Oliver
Mary
Freda Henretta
Anthony Michael

Charles Walter
Henrietta Cecily

Edith Mary
Samuel Charles

Ethel May
Robert Andrew

Mary May
Rudolph Thomas

Edwin and Jane
John and Elizabeth

John and Sarah
Godfrey and Betty

Reggie and Daisy Jane
William and Bessie

Edward and Mary
Euan and Brenda

Mary & Patrick
Rosalind & John

Donald (Don) & Edna
Harold (Harry) & Rose

Frances Bernadette
Peter
Hannah nn Nancy!!
Sydney nn Leslie!!
Betty Anne
Dick Thomas

Hope these help!

Colin and Anne
Charles and Hughene

Grace and Frederick
Dorothy and Thomas

ME
Margaret (Molly) and Walter
Mary and James

DH
Joy and Harold
Stanley and Vivienne

Queenie
Alfred

Esther Hetty (one is indeed a diminutive of the other )
Sidney
Joseph (divorced)

Some of the old names about at the moment are gorgeous, I love

Evie
Evelyn
Dorothy
Edith (for Edie/Eade)

Isobel
Thomas
Helen
Angus

Elizabeth (Betty)
Stephen
Gordon
Wilhelmina