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Mine were Lois and Margaret. Lois had a sister named Ruth, and Margaret had sisters named Beatrice and Isabel.
My husband's grandmothers were Louise and ??? -- he literally would have to ask his mom his maternal grandmother's name because they all just called her "Sito" (Arabic for Grandma).
ETA I actually like the name Mildred and Millie is a really sweet nickname.
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What a fun thread...
Maria Blanche (she's cajun french, Cay. Couldn't speak English til after she was married. How I miss her!)
Lynn
BonnieBell
Wilma
My family is French and my husband is Scottish so we have pretty names in the family tree, I think...
Margaret (I love this - I love Maggie )
Anne
Mary
Mary Francis
Louise (she was called Lou)
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My Meme's name is Eva (her sister's name is Neva and her brothers' names are Roy, Coy, and Joy - yes, Joy...he ended up becoming a tough sheriff in TX - no kidding!)
My Grandma's name is Lillian.
Both pretty names, I think!
I don't anymore names than that. I'm trying not to be jealous of all of you who know more about your relatives!
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My grandmother's names are Jane and Marion (actually I had three great aunts named Marion as well)...
Our name picked for a daughter for the past five babies was: Marion Jane. We have yet to use it. 
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My Grandmothers:
Evelyn Antoinette
Perline (called Pearl)
My Greats:
Irene Marie
Alexandra Theodora
Josephine
Catherine
My Great-Greats:
Marie
Maria
Elizabeth
Josephine
Antonina
Valeria
Brigitte
Antoinette
My Great-Great-Greats:
Maria
Margaretha
Rufina
Elizabeth
Mary
Katarzyna
Ewa
Sulaj
Josephine
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Ok, my Grandmas are:
Anna Rose
Estelle Angela Clara Rita
(she was one of 10 children, but had the most names ...her siblings were:
Aloicious,
Salome (Sally),
Adolf (don't hear that one much anymore),
Adele,
Isabelle,
Rosemary,
Francis Xavier (Frank), and
Rita)
Dh's are:
Rita Louise
Rose Emily
What fun to hear so many names 
God bless,
Christine
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Great thread!
My grandmothers:
Doris Natalie (hence my username)
Queenie Elizabeth Mary
Step-grandmother:
Olive Olwen
Great aunt:
Vera Doreen
Greats:
Edith Mary
Edith Sarah
Alice
?
Dh:
Irene Constance
Clare
Edith
So, a big thumbs-up for Edith in our family! But Queenie surely gets some sort of prize 
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How fun to read all these names!
My grandmothers:
Margarete Helene
Kittora  May (She went by May!)
My grandfathers:
Archie Simpson (no middle name, but his dad was Daniel Bradbrook Fenton Simpson)
Dorris Nathaniel (Dorris was an old family name- sometimes he went by "Nape" short for Napier, his last name.)
My one grandmother came from Germany, my one grandfather was from England. The other two families had been here a long time.
My dh's grandmothers:
Agatha
Stella
My dh's grandfathers:
Sebastian
Frank
All dh's grandparents came from Poland.
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the only name I ever had for my mother's mother was "Ma'am" I don't know what her first or last name was.
my father's mother was Mary Angelica Colleen of something something that I don't remember. I do remember thinking that with a name like that I MUST be related to royalty. Maybe she was the lost Anastasia?! I had many a fantasy about that until grandmother pointed out that HER being rich wouldn't make ME even a dime richer.
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My Grandmother on my dad's side is Ruby. Her sisters were Goldie, Hattie, and Immogene.
My Grandmother (Oma) on my mothers side is Katerina, my Mary Katherine is named for her. Her sister was Julio. (pronounced Hulio.)
My mother is Marion, her sisters are Vera, Ilona, and Dagmar!
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Our mom's names are
Linda Carol
Joy
Our grandmother's are
Dorothy Marie (went by Marie)
Frances
Nadine
Joyce
Our great grandmothers
Vina (always wanted to use her name, but dh wouldn't go for it )
Marie
Our dad's
Gary Randell
Ronald Dean
Our Grandfather's names
Rupert Donovan
Needom
George
?
My great grandfather
Jesse Mac (where I got my first name)
I love seeing all the older names
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Loving all these name ideas! (We're still tryng to decide on a girl's name!) My dad's side of the family is completely Italian (we're the first half-breeds ) and my mom is from the Midwest, so we have a combination of Latinate and non-Latinate names in our family tree...
My grandmothers:
Rosina (Italian)
Margaret Veronica
My great-grandmothers:
Nina (pronounced with a long I)
Angela (Italian)
Lucia (Italian)
Great-aunts on the Italian side:
Lucia
Domenica
Maria
Madalena
Tina
Teresa
Great-aunts on the non-Italian side:
Anita
Barbara
Kathleen
Katherine
Ann
Josephine
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Fun, fun, fun! Our grandmothers:
Dorothy Sarah
Arabelle Fostena
Mary Rose
Louise
My great-grandmothers were:
Florence Imogene
Caroline Gray
Mabelle
??
Brian's great grandmothers were:
Sophie
Alenne
Rose
Esther (step-ggma)
I'll have to pull out the genealogy for names further back...
Aunties include
Marjorie Dalrymple (a family name)
Elvera May
Grace Agnes
Murial
Shirley Caroline
Gloria
Rita Marie
Della
Ildege
Helen
Loretta & Lorraine (twins)
Claire
Jeanette
Lucy
Delia
Albina
Lena
Emma
Cora (both my side and Brian's side had a Cora)
Katharine
Eunice
Carrie
Clara
Some pretty names in all these lists! I'm on the hunt for baby names.
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Grandmothers
Margaret
Madelyn (well, actually Gertrude -- but she changed her name legally as an adult and went by Madelyn since an early teen)
Dorothy
Great Grandmothers
Rose
Pearl (actually Margaret, but there were so many Margarets in the family that she went by Pearl her whole life)
fun thread!
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cvbmom wrote:
Ok, my Grandmas are:
Anna Rose
Estelle Angela Clara Rita....
Adolf (don't hear that one much anymore),... |
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My grandmother's brother was named Adolph, but he went by "Otto" for obvious reasons.
cvbmom wrote:
Dh's are:
...Rita Louise...
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Rita Louise was my dear mum's name! 
I have never before heard anyone else with that first and middle name.
God Bless,
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Mine are/were:
Veronica Mary
Hilda Eileen
Dh's
Queenie
Lena
He doesn't know their middle names
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How fun!
Our grandmas names:
Mavis
Margaret
Barbara
Winifred
G'pa's:
Lawrence
Victor
Lawrence
Thomas
My grandmother and her siblings (and spouses) from MS/LA area had what I thought to be some of the most interesting names:
girls:
Mavis
Willian
Burnell
Ellen
Lucy
Karen
boys:
Burlon
Ellis
Dudley
Skeets
Ruven (not Ruben)
One more interesting note.. I used to call all my great aunts in LA "Aint Lucy, Aint Ellen" etc, but all of my TX aunts/great aunts were always referred to as Aunt Mary, Aunt Julie etc. Funny, huh?
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Continuing to enjoy this nostalgic thread...it's so fun to see the common names and also the interesting regional or ethnic ones.
Not a Tiffany, Jessica, Crystal, Savannah, Skylar, Heather, Misty, Ashley among them.... .
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Susan Denise - my sister
Jeanette Charlotte (SIL)
Judy Marie (SIL)
Margaret Elizabeth (SIL)
Rebecca Lynn (SIL)
Nicole Marie (SIL)
Diann Madeline (my mother)
Johanna Marie (MIL)
Agnes Genevra (my grandmothers)
Helene Marie
Mary Josephine (his grandmothers)
Georgianna Marie?
Hazel ? (my great-grandmothers)
Julia ?
Mary ?
Laura ?
Ellen Marie (my aunts)
Mary Laura
Monica Helen
Martha Helena (my great aunts)
Mary Theodosia
Nora Madeline
Julia Kathleen
Elizabeth Eileen
Theresa Marguerite
Frances Ruth
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I see we're adding men's names as well
our fathers
Paul George (George was my grandmother's maiden name, a family tradition that the first born son is given his mother's maiden name as a middle name)
William Charles
brothers
Kenneth Charles
Gregory Paul
Paul Gray (again, mother's maiden name)
Michael David
Michael Joseph
David Patrick
grandfathers, uncles, etc.
William Russell
Emmet Hassett (mother's maiden name)
Peter Douglas
John Joseph
William Russell Jr.
William Elixander (pronounced with a long starting E)
John ? maybe Robert
Joseph ?
Leo Nicholas
James Patrick
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