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[kati-d.livejournal.com]

Im really into traditional and classic names from a long time ago.

So I was wondering if everyone could do some family research and find out their grendparents and great grandparents first and middle names for me.

THANKS!

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[partyofthree.livejournal.com]

my great grandmas on either side are Madeline & Saravivis

great grandpas: Elmer & Johnny

I think Saravivis is neat

[partyofthree.livejournal.com]

oh and the regular grand parents are : Charmaine & Henry & Frank & Tommy (she was married a lot)

and Rita & Jay & Marian & Ed & Harold

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

Am working from memory here ...

Grandparents ...
Barbara Joan & Donald Edward 'Don'
Kathleen Joyce 'Kath' & Kenneth John 'Ken'

Great Granparents
Walter & ??
Jack & Ethel
Charles & Violet

My grandfather had loads of aunts/uncles; Lily, Olive, Jessie, Fred. Some more too but can't recall their names.

My paternal, I think great great grandparents, were Richard & Elizabeth. Then by total coincidence my younger brother was named Richard, and part of my name is a derivative of Elizabeth.

[arbus.livejournal.com]

my grandfathers: george edward and francis patrick.

my grandmothers: rheta (pronounced just like rita) muriel, and mary (i dont know what her middle name was.)

my paternal great grandparents, who were from sweden, were named gustav and kristina.

[arbus.livejournal.com]

grandparents brothers and sisters: ruby, everett, bernard, thelma, burleigh (burl), frida, ken, edward (ted). my grandfather (george edward) just went by eddie. there was an elizabeth too, great grandmother. and i know the names of one other set of my great grandparents, aside from the ones mentioned above, but i cant think of them right now.

[simplymelodious.livejournal.com]

Myrtle Alice Eleanor
Cora Alzire
Leslie
Johnathan
Michael Francis
Elizabeth Nancy

Those are the only names I can think of off hand.

[amandavanessa.livejournal.com]

There's 2 Paul's, 2 Margaret's, Shirley, Paulette, Jeanette, Jane, Carol, Hazel...

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

Had to share, because I'm a sucker for stats :)
That and it'll give you lots of general ideas.

Top 1000 names in the USA
Information from the Social Security Administration. Different spellings of similar names are not combined.

http://www.behindthename.com/top/lists/1000us1900s.php (1900-09)

http://www.behindthename.com/top/lists/1000us1910s.php (1910-19)

http://www.behindthename.com/top/lists/1000us1920s.php (1920-29)

[anapology.livejournal.com]

464. Mercedes- people named their daughters this in the 1900's...yuck.
657. Hedwig- lmao.. Harry Potter, i did not know this was a real name!

[dionysia.livejournal.com]

Mercedes is a legit ethnic name. I doubt the folks in the Naughties were naming their daughters after the automobile.

[bellisima87.livejournal.com]

The name was there before the automobile.

Mr. Benz named his first car after his eldest daughter Mercedes.

Believe me, I'm from Germany...

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Winifred Gladys (she hated both, went by Wynne or Blod), Osmond Henry (known most of his life as Bob), Donald Edward (Don), Carmelina Concetta (Carmen), Frederick Albert (Fred), Sarah-Jane, Sarah Maria, William Henry, Richard Gloucester, Mireille (Mirella), Giulia Grazia, Emilio Vincenzo.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Oh, and since there were so many of them: my grandmother's siblings were Frederick, George, Thomas, Alfred, Ernest, Frank, Henry, Doris, Constance, Elsie; my grandfather's were Thelma, Sylvest [no 'er'], Granville, Elva, Delbret, Margaret. All born between 1905 and 1929.

[kati-d.livejournal.com]

I love love love the name Elsie !!! do you think its too out there and too traditional?

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I really like it. A lot of names of the same era are back in a big way - I know babies called Archie, Freddie, Walter, Connie, so I don't see why Elsie wouldn't work too.

[joelenebeverly.livejournal.com]

I LOVE the name Elsie, but that was before I had ever know it to be a traditional name. I posted awhile ago and said that I would like to name a little girl Elsie, but after a friend of mine. Her initials are L.C so we call her Elsie cuz it flows better! I think its an adorable name for a little girl, but she can also pull it off in her mid-twenties!

[cathkitten.livejournal.com]

I actually really like the name Winifred. I'd never name a kid that, but the nickname Winnie is just so CUTE!!!!!

[krosp.livejournal.com]

Less so since Winnie the Pooh, though

[jennifergroovy.livejournal.com]

Grandma - Virginia Marion (My grandmother always hated Marion because it was spelled the way you would spell it for a man. The traditional spelling for a woman is Marian.)
Grandpa - Howard LeGrand
Grandma - Grace Frances
Grandpa - Carl Leonard
Great Grandma - Ida
Great Grandpa - Victor
Great Grandma - Anna Sanna (really, hehe.)
Great Grandpa - Oskar (Swedish spelling.)
Great Grandma - Abigail
Great Grandpa - Jake
Great Grandma - Agnes
Great Grandpa - Arthur Brush
Great Aunt - Anabel (spelled like that.)
Some other old people in my family (aunts and uncles etc.) Gene and Geneva (pronounced "Jen-ee-vuh," as in the city in Switzerland) Lisa and Gabriel, Aina (pronounced "eye-nuh")...oh and my grandfather had twin sisters named Minnie and Winnie! If that isn't the funniest thing I've ever heard! Hope that helps.

[babyhoyt.livejournal.com]

for both myself and my husband
Grandparents: Andrew George, Claudia Laverne, Clarence Mervin, Ammie, Ruby, Janet, Freeman Merrit (his siblings all had normal names. weird), Alice, James

my mom's grandmother was Laverne. her mom Claudia Laverne. my mom is Evelyn Laverne. my mom stopped that stupid family tradition!

[kati-d.livejournal.com]

i love the name Evelyn nickname Evie :) does your mom like her name??

[babyhoyt.livejournal.com]

my mom hates her name! but when she was a kid, it was a total old lady name, prime example being the old ladies she was named after :)
She goes by Pat. story goes that her parents called her that after one of their horses :)

[lovablemess.livejournal.com]

I don't know most of their middle names...

Grandparents:
Ernest Francis & Theresa Rose (almost exclusively called Tess- my middle name is Tess, after her)
Jerome & Lena

Great-grandparents:
Ernest Francis (I think his middle was Francis, also) & Emma
Clement (my dad was named after him- he HATES it) & Anna
Nicholas & Sadie
Joseph & Mary (yes, like the biblical couple)

[serendipitous13.livejournal.com]

Mom's side:
Vivian Lucille
Robert O. (I can never remember what the "O" is for.)
Clara Jane
John
Ralph
Ruth
Charles
another Clara
Herman
Elizabeth
Henry
Amelia
Laura
another John
I can go back further if you want.

Dad's side:
I don't know nearly as many on his side

Joseph
Helen Genevieve
another Joseph
Josephine
another Joseph

(Joseph is obviously the family name everyone uses. I also have a brother and numerous cousins named Joseph.)

[transgressed.livejournal.com]

anna charlotta, elsa ingaborg, nona rosa, richard jame, loren joseph, gladys lillian, horace chauncy. i don't have many great ones to choose from, lol.

[ex-bluebonn.livejournal.com]

Grandparents/great-grandparents in the family:
Aline, Margaret, Christine, Alma, Roger, Edward, Adrien, Harry

[thorabrighid.livejournal.com]

Verna Leigh and Arthur Roy were my great grand parents.

Then grandparents Joanne and Charles and Claude and Bertie.

[secret-x-stars.livejournal.com]

umm..

Genoveva and George

+

Aurica and Dinu.

one of my great-grandparents was Alessandra.

that's all i know... they were all foreign, hahahaha. although Aurica would be like naming someone 'Goldie.' :)

[neroli.livejournal.com]

I know an Aurika - she translated her name for me as "sunbeam".

[solyma.livejournal.com]

grandparents:

william ____
pauline ____
dorothy ann
frank andrew

great grandparents:

hazel ____
hilary emmett (my grandfather- he went by "h. emmett")

i can't remember my other great grandparents' names...

[trissyd.livejournal.com]

(mine have no middle names:)

Mary & William (Bill)
Dorothy & Victor (Vic)

I only met one of my great grandparents, so I only know her name:
Elizabeth

[bellisima87.livejournal.com]

Alexander
Maria
Elli Anna Lisbeth
Herbert

[lolacat.livejournal.com]

Elmo
Aurlene
Opal
Laura
Clara
Gladys
Paul
Vincent
Aurelius
Salome
Charles

[scintillated.livejournal.com]

Mum's side:

Marian ___
William ___

Dad's side:

Marian ___
Joseph ___

[amberatcmu.livejournal.com]

Ruth Frances
Thadis Hugh
George Edward
Billie
Lula
Sherman Basley
Della
William

[feelslike-2day.livejournal.com]

mine are really strnage b/c my family is dutch.. but here goes anyway

maternal: Jantje (yun-chuh) later anglicized to Jenny & Alfred (i have no clue abt middle names i dont think they had any)

paternal: Dirkje (deerk-yah) & Gerritt (pron. Herr-it)

in dutch most female names are mens names plus 'tje' or 'je' so Jantje is 'Jan' (john)+ the 'tje' as far as i know the 'tje' just makes it feminine it doesnt mean anything

[imaginationfig.livejournal.com]

Grandparents:
Donald
Lilli
Richard
Rosslyn

Great-Grandparents:
Erwin
Rascha
Arthur
Emma
Arthur
Alice
Lou (I assume it's Louis, but I've only ever heard him called Lou)
Tessa

[alocin.livejournal.com]

I only know my Great Grandies from my dad's side.
Clarence & Ruby :)

My Grandies are..
Pat Clarence & Monica
Pearl Muriel
Shirley Kay

:)

[mystiaunknown.livejournal.com]

A little long but I'm sitting here looking at my genealogy stuff, so why not? LOL

Mary Ann
James Samuel
James Monroe
Rachel Ann
Virginia Francis
Zachariah
Annie
Minnie
Nonie
Mattie
Arbie Wyatt
Jane
Lovie Mae
Lorrine
Grace
Jewell
Marvin
Will
Elsie
Tom
Boyd
Myrtle
Noah Palmer
Lois
Janie Louise (goes by Louise)
William Laverne


DH's grandparents:
Mattie Ruth (goes by Ruth)
William Elmer (went by Elmer)
Dovie
John

[jessiac.livejournal.com]

Grandparents:

Thomas ??
Vera Blanche
Max n/a
Peggy Annie Gertrude (NOT Margaret)

Greatgrandparents:

Ada
Bess
Frederick
Thomas
Louis
Louis
Mackenzie
??

[cathkitten.livejournal.com]

Great Grandparents: Mary, James Augustus, Agnes, Daniel, Marie, George Nicholas.

Grandparents: Doris Barbara and Laurence, Lois and Eugene Edward.

My husband's grandparents were Robert Martin and Beatrice, and Loretta and James Kenneth.

[alabaster-ocean.livejournal.com]

from what i can remember of the bit of research i did some years ago...

grandparents:

albert and betty rose
albert victor (known as vic) and isabel mary (goes by mary)

great-grandparents:

frederick george and jessie mary
albert wallace and alice
james and gertrude

not sure about my maternal grandfather (albert's) parents, but i do know he had siblings called ada may and crucius (?sp)

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

Great-Great Grandmother - Philomena

Great Grandmothers: Emma, Katherine, Rose, Margaret

Grandmothers: Thelma, Louise (not making that up)
Grandfathers: Richard, Charles

DV

[katie-oo7.livejournal.com]

Mom's Side: Dorothy, Helen, Mae, Sammie Jessie (Sam), Lucy (might be Lucille), Manuel, and Louis.

My dad's side: Jean, Margaret (Maggie), Helena, Mary (Minnie), Elizabeth, Michael Christopher, Billy, and Thomas.

While looking for the names I found various friends with names like: Martha, Harriet, Herbert, Charles, Jesephine, Frances, Eugenie, Frederick, Louise, Frank, Emmons, Anita, Ethel, William , Julian, Frederic, Henry, Theodore, Jules, Augustus, Florence, Ralph, Alexander, Emmeline, Robert, Blanch, Clara, Georgiana, Stewart, Edward, and Willis.

[a-purple-dream.livejournal.com]

Paternal greatgrandparents: Nemesio, Felipa, Silveria,and Felipe.
Maternal greatgrandparents: Feliciano, Clara and unknown.

Paternal grandparents: Petra and C.J Natividad (I don't know what C and J stand for)

Maternal grandparents: Quintina and Lucio.

I really like the names Nemesio and Lucio but I don't like how they are pronouced in English. They are Spanish/Italian names.

[krosp.livejournal.com]

I'll put down as many of my grandparents/great grandparents and their sisters/brothers as i can remember (i only know middle names of a few) in no particular order:

Women
Lily Marjorie
Gladys
Necholine (anglicised Nicolena)
Theodora
Agnes
Marie Johannes
Mary Rebecca
Ellie
Audrey

Men
Leonard
Herbert
William
Edward James
Stanley
Thomas
Niels
Walter
Neville
Joseph
Gregory

[ciara-belle.livejournal.com]

Grandparents:
Lillian (I'm naming my daughter this, if I have one)
John
Russell
Maureen (I really like this name too)

Great-grandparents: (I only know names for my mom's side)
Eutimio (Italian, pronounced Ow-oo-tee-me-o)
Pasqua
Marija (anglicized to Mary)
Matthew (anglicized version, I can't spell the Slovenian original)

My mom has/had aunts named Evelyn (which I really also like), Leona, Olga and Clara (goes by Dolly) and uncles named Antonio (Anthony), Vincenzo (Vincent), Richard and Martin.

[thejoysofjess.livejournal.com]

My Gram is Katherine Elizabeth (Kay). Her sister is Mary Louis. My grandma is Mary Lou. (Can you tell we're a Catholic family? Ha!). Then there's Daniel Justin and Gene Allen. My greatgrandma is Margerete (however you spell that properly).