Remembering old names
My 4 aunts were Mabel, Myrtle, Lilian & Olga🙃
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My grandfather, Elmo, married a woman named Mildred. I got lucky and inherited his middle name, not his first name. Mom named me Vernon.
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My mom was Jemima and yes she got teased way back when even but her middle name was jo and went by that
Her dad was Elmer her mom lizzy
My wife is Gwendowla she was named after a old friend of the family
but she goes by Gwen however all the friends and family call her Dolie
when my future wire and i first met I ask her name . She replied gwendowla I said you have to have nickname she said Dolie
(Have to every member in her family all the cousins uncles the whole group all Had a nick name they went by
And yes there was a bubba her brother )
I was in the back seat of the car and thought she said goalie
I ask WTH you play hockey. Then she cleared it up
My dad had eight sisters I can only remember a couple of there names but they all had nick names which makes it harder to remember
i have yet to meet a southerner with out a nick name
Including me Mine was Crockett
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Great grandfather Maxamillion Wapelhorst
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I guess I'm lucky lol my Grandparents were Bob and Beverly and my great grandparents were Harry and Vernie
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All of my siblings including myself all had a "y" added at the end of our actual names. There was Johnny, Tommy, Chucky, Joey (me), Marky, Brucey, Scotty, and Mary. Must be a Michigander nickname thing!
My dads name was Harry and mom was Mary Lou. I even had a great aunt named Fanny who was a hoot! Then there was Aunt Clarabell. She is easily remembered for the way she would pinch your cheek (hard) when she greeted you! Pretty sure she was named after one of my grandpa's cows! 😁There are, or were, as all are now gone, many names in my family that are no longer used these days.
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My 4 aunts were Mabel, Myrtle, Lilian & Olga🙃
With a name like Olga she gots to be adopted.
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Wife's aunt was named Luna Mae, Since the family lived in the Arkansas River Valley, she was known as Aunt Loony.
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My paternal Grandparents were named Nick and Magdalena, they came over from Hungary. My maternal grandparents were Harry and Chloe.
My parents were Joe and Virginia. They all live underground now.
Joe
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Grandma was Eloise and my mother was Wilma. Grandma's best friend was Olive. Of course, as a little kid I wondered if she knew Popeye!
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paternal grandparents
Edgar Baker and Nomer Jane (Not Norma)
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My grandparents were Erskine, Agnes, Ollie, Mary, Loraine, Ed.
My favorite odd name I've heard was a friend of mine from Germany named Silke has a sister named Docmar.
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Looking at my geneology, in the last several generations from Grandparents to GG Grandparents, I have:
Elwood, Pamelia, Asel, Harriet, Lumen, Narcisse, Florence, Ada, Elmer, Vernon.
The earliest was born in 1815 and the latest in 1907.
Farther back I have Bazebell, Schubel, Mehitable (?). Much beyond that it becomes those born in Europe with names typically associated with the country or region of birth.
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grandparents Annabelle and Van Buren herring ,Aunt Sudiejennetty Nethercutt , yes all one word . Dads folks were from way out in the country .
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grampa was Ulysses and grandma was Bernadine
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My moms parents were Durward Ken and Mary Elizabeth Brown. He went by Ken or Brownie.
My dads were Russell Owen and Ruth Alberta.
When I was a little lad, my parents would say that we were going to Grandma Bills.
I always assumed her name was Bill.
It wasn't until I was older that I realized that it was Great Grandpa Bill and Great Grandma Dessie.
Before I was born and Grandpa Bill was still alive, it was going to see Grandma and Grandpa Bill.
When he passed it just went to Grandma Bill.
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I have a cousin in Nebraska named, Cletus Buck. My Christian name is Oak John Taggart. I go by John, except by family. They all call me Oakie
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I thought I would have the most unusual name because my Great Great Grandfathers name was Enoch but some of you guys got me beat.
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Dad's name was Horace. Glad I wasn't named after him.
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It just struck me...........that many of our ancestors went by "initials", rather than a first name.
My grandfather went by "J.M."........and my great grandfather went by "L.E.".
Times change.........but not always for the better.😕
As an aside.......parents who name their kids after strippers or chip-n-dale dancers.........should be horse-whiped. The poor kid has to actually LIVE with the name. I know........as many years ago a cousin, on my wife's side, named her new daughter Destiny Storm.😱
Full disclosure.........it took me until I was 12.......to find another kid named Kevin. 🤐
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a lot of names that sound odd to us at one time were popular
I know my and my wifes family had a lot of unique names
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My grand dads name was Caleb many years before it was fashionable.
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I do like a lot of the old names that seem to have been forgotten. My long gone old relatives lived with these names;
Amos
Edna
Martha (she was a great aunt, not a famous cat)
Emma
Ebenezer (Uncle Eb)
Ransom
Ada
Doris
Harold
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A friend of mine parents were named Estel and Nida.
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