Grandparents names

Pantglas2, in general I understand your concerns, I would never share such information on FB for instance, but with no additional information and anonymous user names I think revealing forenames of our grandparents on GN is a pretty innocuous thing to do.

Fred and Mary and Albert and Jane

V3ra - there are lots of baby Mabels among my friendship groups, it’s become very popular here in the South West.

Beatrice and Arthur
Winifred and Alfred

Think there are a few Beatrice’s and Arthur’s around and lots of Alfie’s. No Winifred’s though!

Ethel and Horace were my mums parents and Rosina and William were my dads. Never met either of the men as they died before I was born.

Janet, Jessie, David, Theophilus

John and Christine. (M) Walter and Mary (P) I only met W & M once as a six week old baby, as my father was killed in WW2 and bad feeling developed between my mother and her in-laws. I had a maternal great aunt called Muriel, and four others who were sisters to Christine, called Winifred, Edith, Harriet and Dorothy. Not too keen on Muriel, the name that is, the owner was a nice but old fashioned lady.

One of my Grandfathers was called Edgar. I can’t imagine that coming back into fashion!

Am I the only one thinking that too much revealing of family names, ages etc on forums isn’t a good thing?

Dorothy and Frank
Jessica and John

Nathan and Edith, Katherine and James.

George, Maria, Alfred, Charlotte.

‘3 out of 4 ain’t bad’.

Arthur and Constance
Arthur and Florence.

Now rather trendy,

I knew Sydney and Sarah,....,she was Sarah ann Isabella a lovely grandma....

Sydney & Sarah
Jessie amelia &Charles

Dorothy and William
Florence and William

William and Mary-Ellen ,Roisin and Anthony.

My maternal gp's were Lizzie and Hugh. Paternal gp's were Alice and Alfred. 3 of my granddaughters are Hattie, Esme and Lillia. So definitely based on our grandparents era.

Mabel Agnes and William Charles on my Mum's side.
Sophia Elizabeth and Frederick George on my Dad's side.

Think it's time poor Grandma Mabel's names had a revival!
All the others are reasonably popular these days in one form or other.

Phoebe and Arthur - she absolutely hated Phoebe, often used her middle name of May.
I’m sure she’d have been astonished to learn how popular Phoebe became fairly recently - all down IMO to Friends.

The others were Rose and Harold.
Rose lives on as a Gdd’s middle name - IMO it’s lovely.

Adela and George, Elizabeth and James.

So, all except Adela still popular.

My daughter was surprised, a while ago, when I mentioned that names like Emily and Harriet sound old-fashioned to me.

Mine were Reginald and Mary -very strict grandparents but I loved them
Jim and Florence (Florrie) relaxed grandparents equally beloved
I admit I love the name Florence

Amalie Martha and Adolphus
Alice and George

All (apart from Afolphus!) used to this day.

Only met Alice. Amalie and Adolphus trapped behind the Iron curtain and George died before I was born.

Bignanny it's a family name. I had an aunt called Mina and have a cousin called Wilma, all from Wilhelmina.

I had a Great Auntie Hilda - never hear that name these days !