100 Year rule--what's your grandma's and great grandma's names?

[bnoelle]

I don't know much about my dad's side, but my mother, sister, and I are in the midst of very extensive research on her mother's side of the family so I've come across a lot of really awesome names lately....

Grandma's
Martha Dean (1926)
Pluma Carrie (19191)

Great Grandma's
Bonnie Mae (1904)
Estelle (1907)
Sadie


Great Great etc.
Frances Victoria (1874)
Mary Caroline (1884)
Cora Bird
Harriett Fannie
Martha Geneva (1916)
Louisa Frances (1833)
Lilly Leona (1892)
Zada Estella (1905)
Jemima Angenetta (1852
Reva Angenetta (1913)
Ruby Lola (1910)
Lucinda Roark(1793)
Eliza Ann
Mary Louise
Clara Belle
Billie Faye
Betty Faye
Brenda Nell
I also know of Emma, Josephine, Elizabeth, Hannah, Stella, and Caroline, but don't have middle names for them.

[chelseamae]

Maternal grandparents: Mary Elizabeth and William (Bill)... my step grandfather is Robert (Bob)
Maternal greats: Francis (Frank) and Ida Mae, Dolores

Paternal grandparents: David and Beverly

I really want to do some more digging for names! My sister is due in October with my first neice or nephew so I have a feeling we'll be doing some major searching!

[mrstrivette]

Maternal: Margaret Ann (81yrs last month :-) her mother Inez Margeurite (1897) her mother Sena (don't know middle name)
Other Maternal great grandmother: Minnie Luella, her mother Catharine.

Paternal: Audrey Clara Marie (76yrs :-) her mother Mildred Lucille (1909) her mother Clara Ida (1891) her mother Elizabeth (1868, don't know middle name).
Other paternal great grandmother: Louisa (1879, don't know middle name) her mother Johanna (1859) her mother Wilhelmine.

Husband's mother was adopted. Her birth mother's first name is Clara.
His paternal side: Tobitha Manda (1921, some sources say Tabitha Amanda) her mother Maude (1888).

I'm a bit of a genealogy nerd. :-)

[oldsienna]

Grandmothers:
Edna Marshall (1933 - she hated her middle name!)
Judith Mary (1932)

Great Grandmothers:
Rosemary (1883)
Ethal (1890s - creative spelling!)
Elsie May (1897)
Edith (~1900 - she was always known as Era, with equal weight given to both syllables. Eer-Ahh)

Great-great grandmothers include Margaretta, Minnie, Rosemary and Sarah Ann.

Names i love from other people's posts:
Rose Amelia
Anna Caroline
Grace Louise
Genevieve Edith

[saraallison]

Frances (my baby girl's mn)
Betty (given name, not a nn)

Anna Susan (fn mn but she was called by both)
Alma Clio (her sisters were Dorothy, Dixie and Lida)
Zetta (prnd Zetty, not a nn)

Sara Susan (after whom I am named)
Elizabeth

[danni]

There are some truly lovely names on this thread! I will add the names I can remember off the top of my head:

grandmother -- Margaret Edith
great aunt -- Susan Electa (Electa is fascinating to me--it's a family name that is apparently of Greek and biblical origin meaning "chosen one".)
their mother -- Geraldine Edith

another great-grandmother was Doris Jane, I think. Her daughter is Barbara something.

Margaret will definitely be my first daughter's middle name (first name probably will be Hazel). Geraldine and Edith are growing on me, and I love Jane. However, I don't think I can ever warm up to Doris or Barbara... They are just not my flavor at all. Susan is okay--it's my mom's mn.

I may have to talk SO into using Electa...

[amyb2]

Grandmas:
Eileen, Paquita (Spanish)

Greats: Ann, Rose, Pepita (Spanish)

[jcjoy]

Love genealogy, currently working on my mothers side. Unfortunately I don't know much about my father's side, going to tackle that this summer. These are my maternal GMs.

Grandmothers: Alice, Lessie (paternal GM)
Great Grandmothers: Lucy, Martha
Great-Great Grandmothers: Alice, Della, Catherine
Great-Great-Great Grandmothers: Madora, Cornelia, Frances, Sallie

[jennipea382]

I'm having a total mind blank on great grandma's names.. I think one of them was Mary though.

My grandmas are Patricia (can't remember middle name) and Barbara Joan. My fiance's grandma's names are Virginia and Magdelena (goes by Lena). My "third grandma" was Shirley (she's my uncle's mom, not related but was around a lot). I have great aunts named Mary, Marilyn, Thelma and Betty (Barbara's twin sister). Most of them are in their 70s except Lena who is 97.

[roselang]

Grandmothers: (both born around 1930)
Rita Irene
Barbara Joan

Great-grandmothers: (all born around 1900)
Adeline Cecelia
Hedwig
Helen Kathryn
Matilda Rose (I'm Rose, and my daughter is Matilda, after her )