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

Catherine Dolores (known as Dolores)
Joyce
Sean
William

Me

Briget (Bridie)
John (Jack)

Anne (Annie)
Anthony

DH

Zarifeh (Cute in Arabic)
Youssef (Joseph in Arabic)

Elias
Bahia (In Arabic this means beautiful in a regal way)

DH is Lebanese Maronite Christian & I have an Irish background

John and Margaret
Charles and Audrey

Bit boring, really....

However - the lovely elderly couple who used to live in our house before us were called Eva and Ted.

They asked if we wanted some of the furniture leaving, as as we were skint and had barely anything between us, we were most grateful. So we inherited their rather fetching dusky pink 3-piece suite.... When we went to get rid of it, I found a small card down the back of it, with a poem on, called "Recipe for a happy home", and a handwritten note on the back saying "To Eva and Ted, Much love in your new home xxx". It must have gone back to the 1950s. I like to think of them as my sort-of guardian grandparents (they've both passed away now) and will use their names in some form for future DCs.

Hilda and Harold
May and John

maura maud
harold
rose
jean
phil

hubbys nan was alice

mary both sides
paul
john
edward

Lina
Lucette
Emily

Leardo (Le-ar-do)
Aime (with an accent on the "e")
Arthur

Lottie Bettine
Victor Alfred
Hannah
Bernhard

Mary & Harry
Audrey & Arthur

Sybil & Thomas (Tommy)
Henry (Harry) & Dorothy

my great grandparents were
Marie & Humphrey
Barnes & Molly
Elizabeth & George
Arthur & Mary

Marjorie & Bertram
Dorothy & Robert

Me -
William & Ruby
William & Eileen

DP -
Jaroslav & don't know his grandma (his grandfather, great grandfather and great great grandfather were Jaroslav too)
Alois & Aloiska

Neil and Violet
Herbert and Helen

Chose Helen for DD

My grandparents were Fred & Martha, Jack and Pauline Madeleine Yohanna.

Great-grandparents that I know of were Ava and Estrathia.

Jane and Evan
Zena and Kenneth

Charles
Jack
Flavius
Augustus

Irma
Hilda
Virginia
Alice

Olive and Garthorn ("Gar" also called Dick for some reason!)

Berta and Colin

I called my DD2 Beatrix after Grandma Berta - same letters, just mixed up a little and with a twist at the end!

Me: Jack and Alice
John and Margaret (Maggie)

DH: Rosalie and Alexander
and No Idea - I must ask him. Mind you, I bet he wouldn't know my grandparents' names.

girls:
phyllis, hazel, norah, gwenllian, lillian
boys:
peter, archie, walter, reuben

can't remember the others, sorry. These include great gps too.
There are some really lovely names on this thread, what a great idea!

roland
george
phyllis
bella
sabrina (sibby)
frederick
tilly
peggy
robert (bob)
beatrice (bea)
constance (connie)
florence (flossie)
bertha
gladys
lena
helena (nellie)
daisy
bert

included the great aunts/uncles I can remember

Me:

Robert + Marjorie
Cecily + Stanley

DH:

Ellis + Constance
William + Enid

Victor
Robert
Constance (Connie)
Gwen
Haydyn

.. sorry, that was Hadyn

Me

Fred
Edith
Phyllis
Cyril

DH

William
Violet
Joseph
Harriet

DH
John
Christine
Barbara
?

(Mine are further up)

Me

Patrick
Joseph (Josie)
Sarah (Sadie)
Maire (May)

Not sure about dps though i know one was called Vincent