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| What? Am I the only one with a grandmother named Mildred??? The worst name ever? |
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My husband's grandmother was Mildred... that's why she always went by her middle name! It's a tough one! 
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Matilda wrote:
MacBeth wrote:
| What? Am I the only one with a grandmother named Mildred??? The worst name ever? |
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My husband's grandmother was Mildred... that's why she always went by her middle name! It's a tough one! |
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I see that now...Jodie, too! Hey, my grandmother's mother was Matilda, btw.
Say, wouldn't it be funny if through this we found that some of us are related?
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MacBeth wrote:
| What? Am I the only one with a grandmother named Mildred??? |
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oops, yes on DH's side there was a Mildred, and also a Millecent.
AND dh's SIBLINGS (in their young 30's) HAVE those names as first names  but all 8 of them (dh included) go by their middle name, as their first names are "family" names.
.....a tradition we are NOT passing on!! ha ha
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MacBeth wrote:
| Say, wouldn't it be funny if through this we found that some of us are related? |
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Now that would be a hoot!
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MacBeth wrote:
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hey, they all hail from NY, so who knows??? 
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My and my DH's grandmothers:
Leona
Bertha
Ida
Evelyn
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Okay...
our mother's names are/were:
Susan Calvert (grandmother's maiden name)
Geraldine Joyce
Grandmothers:
Ola Agnes
Florence Cordealia/Cordelia
Verda (no middle)
(Can't remember DH's other grandmother's name)
great-grandmothers
Alice (my dad's mother's mother)
Lily Clyde (my mom's dad's mom)
Katherine Gilcrest (my mom's mom's mom)
(no idea on my dad's mom's side, or any of DH's)
back beyond that in grandmothers we end up with some real lu-lus...
Aunts and Great Aunts
My side:
Rena Belinda Jo
Janet Lynn
Verna
Edna
Esther
Ardith
Juanita Fern (goes by Fern)
Mildred
Lois
Jane
DH's side:
Marlene
Darlene
Marilyn
Winnie (Winifred?)
Bernardine
Betty
Barbara
Helen
(and some others I cannot remember)
So, we've used the acceptable names.
Any help?
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Grandmothers
Boronia Clare
Estelle Coralie
Dorothea Margaret
Edith Mary Maud
I would love to have used Boronia... but my niece got it:-)
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Oooh, Theresa, I love the name Callie, I wish it was somewhere in my family! 
Our mothers:
Margaret Frances
Linda Anne
Our grandmother's names:
Margaret
Virginia
Palma Elizabeth
Lenore
Great Grandmothers:
Beulah (can you tell we live in East TN?)
Ethel
Rosalie
Our girls:
Hannah Elizabeth
Emily Grace
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Oh, I have a friend who wants to name her daughter Millicent and call her Millie. I think Millie is very cute!!
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For the most part, I love the old names.
Grandmothers:
Matilda Thomasine (my dd is the 4th Thomasine)
Stella Pearl
Cordie (no middle name)
Laura (???)
Mothers:
Freda Thomasine (after her father, Fred)
Lila May
The most interesting one:
Leticia Serepta (great grandmother)
What about male names?
Grandfathers:
Ernest (no middle name)
Fred (no middle name)
Ralph (no middle name)
John Henry
Dads:
Richard Conrad
Seward Calvin (after a judge in Tenn. and Calvin Coolidge. My poor dad never could live down those names. He was always Stu.)
And I was wondering when middle names became popular because quite a few in my family don't have them.
Janet
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my grandmas: Helen Marie
Marcella
my kids grandmas: Marilyn Rose
Frances Wanda
some of my great aunts: Frances
Hildegarde Regina Wilhemina (called Auntie)
my kids great aunts: Barbara Ann
Mary Kathryn
Celia
Victoria
Veronica
Mary-NY
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mimmyof5 wrote:
| And I was wondering when middle names became popular because quite a few in my family don't have them. |
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That would be interesting. Neither of my parents have middle names (born 1929, 1933) though some of their siblings do.
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It's so fun seeing all these oldies but goodies.
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I sat next to a martial arts teacher at a conference this weekend. She was a rough character and quite the dramatic personality.
At one point Annie walked over to me whining. ..  ...after she had just given me a lecture about how many children she gets through her studio with bad attitudes and behavior problems.
My dh had to stop by to pick-up Annie and when she saw him she immediately recognized him as being related to my sister-in-law (married to his older brother). Turned out we were related through marriage.
Who knew?
I've seen a couple of Gladys mentioned.
I had a great Aunt Gladys too. That's a common one.
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I love the name Olivia! I have an Oliver, so I;m not sure I'll use it though. |
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We were just at the grocery store and Chelsea asked me if I liked the name Olivia. Sure, I replied. And she proceeded to tell me if a future baby of hers looked like an Olivia she wanted to name her that.
I reminded her that she had two close cousins (an Olivia and and a Gracie Olivia) with that name already.
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MacBeth wrote:
| Don's were Janet and...um...I forget . But a generation before that, there was a Jamesina. I like that one. |
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That's an interesting one. Is it said jay mess EE nuh or james EE nuh? I met a Jamesetta (jame SET tuh) once...
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MacBeth wrote:
What? Am I the only one with a grandmother named Mildred??? The worst name ever? It was her sister-in-laws name, too!
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My grandmother was Beulah. Now THAT's the worst name ever, LOL!
My other grandmother is Marjorie. Older women in dh's family were Virginia Ruth and Dorothy.
My daughters have old-fashioned names:
Emilia Ruth
Valeria Elizabeth
Clara Grace
I have a total 70's name which I hate.
My grandfather's names were Lory (mother's maiden name) and Roman. Great uncles were Alfred, and Walter.
My husband's grandfather's names were Harold and Theophilus.
I LOVE the name Theophilus! It's so cool. But we already have a baby with the initial XQ, I'm not sure dh will go for another unusual name, LOL!
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Rachel May wrote:
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| Don's were Janet and...um...I forget . But a generation before that, there was a Jamesina. I like that one. |
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That's an interesting one. Is it said jay mess EE nuh or james EE nuh? I met a Jamesetta (jame SET tuh) once... |
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Actually, it's said James-I-na. Just rolls off the tongue so nicely, doesn't it?
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Milehimama wrote:
My grandmother was Beulah. Now THAT's the worst name ever, LOL!
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That is a tough one!
Some of the northern names are just awful...Mildred is bad enough, but I have two aunts named "Ethel" and both were/are called "Wes" which just sounds better.
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Mark's maternal gradnmother was Bertha. Beautiful, holy, woman. Wonderful grandmother.
But I always connect "Big" with "Bertha" and can't see beyond that name.
Grandmother Bertha will always be "Memama" to me.
Eunice is a name I always connect with Carol Burnett.
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my friends grandma (Italian) was named Generosa (generous) and she named her daughter Genna Rose in her honor...
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