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What were/are your Grandmothers called?

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littlecharmer2016 · 21/03/2016 16:42

Looking for old fashioned, traditional girly girl names! Please help! SmileSmile

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FellOutOfBedTwice · 21/03/2016 20:47

Joyce and Elvera! Elvera was my Dads adoptive mother, his birth mother was called Phyllis.

No inspiration for you, there, I don't think!

wigglybeezer · 21/03/2016 20:48

Isabella and Jeannie

LittlehamHums · 21/03/2016 20:48

Names of Grandmothers and sisters (there were a lot of them) -

Harriet, Elizabeth, Lilly, Doris, Priscilla, Mary Ann, Beatrice, Dolly, Edith, Alice, Rose, Hebe, Grace, Florence, Henrietta, Ethel, Isabella, Elsie, Mary, and Frances.

OVienna · 21/03/2016 20:49

Janith and Ruby

Molehillfromamountain · 21/03/2016 20:50

Kathleen and Timah. We used Kitty as a variation on Kathleen.

littlejeopardy · 21/03/2016 20:53

Gladys and Shelia.

mrssmith79 · 21/03/2016 20:56

Both of them called Lilian.

Roseformeplease · 21/03/2016 20:57

Muriel Linda (but known as Linda) and Emma

MrsMillions · 21/03/2016 20:58

Olive and Catherine (Rene).

Olive is DD1's middle name, every now and again I wish I'd used it as her first name but was determined she should have her own first name, IYSWIM.

bibbitybobbityyhat · 21/03/2016 20:58

May Clara and Jane Mabel

MrRochestersDog · 21/03/2016 20:59

Nancy and Mabel

GastonsPomPomWrath · 21/03/2016 21:02

Mabel and Eirene were my Grandmothers.

Other names in the family:
Lillian
Marjorie
Nancy
Gertrude
Martha
Hannah
Iris
Pearl

Husband's grans were called Ruth and Norah.

HooseRice · 21/03/2016 21:06

HildaFlorence that was my DGM's name too!

Elizabeth is my other gran.

CoffeeChocolateWine · 21/03/2016 21:08

Diana and Dora.

Other family names from that generation are:
Jean x2
Valerie
Kathleen
Isobel
Elsie
Sylvia

mamabluestar · 21/03/2016 21:09

Hazel and Emily

ChildlessAndOK · 21/03/2016 21:11

Nannie - Annie, called Angeline
Granny - Amelia

seven201 · 21/03/2016 21:12

Margaret (Peggy) and Valerie

salsamad · 21/03/2016 21:12

My grandmothers were Lucy Landon Irene and Ethel Florence and my great grandmothers were Jane Lucy and Mary Ann (known as Polly).

Temporaryanonymity · 21/03/2016 21:12

Margaret and Lillian. My great aunts were May, Gertrude, Dot and Edie.

MrsRolly · 21/03/2016 21:13

Florence and Joyce

Had Florence earmarked for a middle name this time but we are having a boy!

MeolsCop · 21/03/2016 21:14

Edith and Agnes Annie.

StandoutMop · 21/03/2016 21:15

Margaret and Irene. Both unlikely to stage a comeback as names i feel.

Cinnamon12345 · 21/03/2016 21:15

Kathleen, Daisy.

CoodleMoodle · 21/03/2016 21:15

Barbara Joan and Ruth Brunhilde. (Christened Brunhilde Ruth when she was born in Poland. She was Brunhilde when she was growing up in Germany, and then Ruth when she moved over to the UK. Also known as Bonny when she lived in Scotland. My Gran lived in a lot of countries!)

CotedePablo · 21/03/2016 21:17

Isabella and Eliza-Jane.

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