Message: "Names of great-aunts"

Names of great-aunts

by Fionnghuala

6/27/2017, 10:00 PM

Share some of yours?

Inspired by the names of one set of my great aunts:

Ethel Madeline
Edna Josephine
Ruth Rowena

born between 1912 and 1919.

I love this trio. So of the time, and to me, great pairings.

This message was edited 6/28/2017, 8:34 AM

Replies

- Elena +1

6/29/2017, 3:15 PM

Interesting. I especially like the mns Madeline and Rowena.

Mine from my mother's side:

Ella May (who I was indirectly named after)

Lucy
Nancy Elizabeth
Elizabeth (weird to have two sisters who share the name name even if one is a mn)
Roena
Sarah Susan
Mary Adeline

From my father's side:

Mildred
Beatrice
Bessie

Alice
Anna
Edna ("Susy")

- Fionnghuala

6/29/2017, 3:44 PM

I've seen name repetition a fair bit from that era. I've been told it often happens because
1. With a common name like Elizabeth, there may be two different Elizabeths being honored
2. With the first child, they may have been afraid there wouldn't be a chance to use the name if there were no more children that they could give it to, so put it in the middle -- with the second, they wanted a chance to use it more commonly than the middle usually suggests, so they put it in the first spot.

This message was edited 6/29/2017, 3:44 PM

- Suzanne (guest) +2

6/29/2017, 12:06 AM

My grandma Muriel "Mim" had sisters Dorothy "Dot", Thelma "Thelly" and Ruth.

- Fionnghuala

6/29/2017, 3:40 PM

A great set! I love Thelly, Mim, Dot and Ruth. :)

This message was edited 6/29/2017, 3:40 PM

- Wordsmith

6/29/2017, 11:05 AM

Mim and Thelly! How chic!

- Ariane (guest) +1

6/28/2017, 3:15 PM

As far as I know

Annemie
Bertha "Berthel"
Helene "Leni"
Jolly
Lieselotte "Lilo"
Marie
Margarethe "Gretel"
Rosine "Rosi"

- Wordsmith

6/29/2017, 11:06 AM

Oh, wow! I love these, especially "Berthel," Helene "Leni," Jolly, Lieselotte "Lilo," Margarethe "Gretel," and Rosine.

- Angrboða (Moirrey)

6/28/2017, 12:23 PM

My maternal grandfather had sisters Mary and Nora. Maternal grandmother had only brothers.

My paternal grandparents were both only children.

- Alda +1

6/28/2017, 11:55 AM

I love Ethel, Edna and Ruth together! I see Ethel as a kind of connecting name because it starts with E like Edna and has the TH sound like Ruth. Also, Ruth Rowena is a great combo!

My great aunts:

Marie
Rosa
Berta
Marta

Jacqueline
Marie-Jane

Ruth

Mary Sue

- Fionnghuala

6/28/2017, 3:04 PM

I love Marie, Rosa, Berta and Marta together!

- hulamigo

6/28/2017, 11:11 AM

I don't know their middle names.

Shirley
Hilda
Margaret "Peggy"
Helen
Mary
Jean

- Eden (eden_eli)

6/28/2017, 10:16 AM

Ethel Anna (b. 1919) was my only great aunt!
I also only had one great uncle, Victor Raymond (born around the same time).

- Rosie (RosieMac) +1

6/28/2017, 10:11 AM

My Great Aunts were: May Evangeline, Leslie Esmeralda & Caroline Rosamel. :)

- Fionnghuala

6/28/2017, 3:06 PM

Wow! I love the more common first names with those elaborate, fanciful middles. :)

- Rosie (RosieMac)

6/28/2017, 10:11 AM

My Great Aunts were: May Evangeline, Leslie Esmeralda & Caroline Rosamel. :)

- Danno (guest)

6/28/2017, 9:29 AM

Faye (Maternal grandfather's sister)

Alberta (Maternal grandmother's sisters)
Helen
Linda
Mary

- RDNZL

6/28/2017, 9:12 AM

My great-aunts are...

Linda
Nita (not short for anything)
Vera

This message was edited 6/28/2017, 9:12 AM

- gildedfairy

6/28/2017, 8:58 AM

Paternal: Berta (1914) in Germany. Sister to Gertrude (1921).

Maternal: Olgia L (1921), Willie Mae (1927), Jannie Bell (1931), & Opal Lee (1935) in Arkansas. Sister to Elsie Verdell (1925).

My opa (Eberhard Franz) & grandpa (Francesco) only had brothers.

This message was edited 6/28/2017, 9:17 AM

- Joiya

6/28/2017, 8:43 AM

Lila Mae's sisters:
Lois Jean (pro. lo-ee)
Loretta Irene
Lucille Annette

Mario's sisters:
Franca
Maria

Francesca's sisters:
Antonietta
Clementina
Maria

This message was edited 6/28/2017, 8:57 AM

- noel (glaucous)

6/28/2017, 8:11 AM

born 1920-1940 (some of my parents' aunts)

Evelyn
Carolyn
Loretta
Vernelle

born 1900-1920 (some of my grandparents' aunts)

Doreatha Jane
Della Irene
Lily
Veda
Ruth
Moselle / Mozelle
Sonya
Juanita
Ernestine
Nellie - not sure if that was her full name or not
Viola

- Rachel Shaina (Evil)

6/28/2017, 7:58 AM

I don't have many great aunts. Paternal grandfather was an only child, paternal grandmother had one sister (Mary Louise). Maternal grandmother had only a brother, and I don't know anything about my maternal grandfather's family.

Can I do 2nd great aunts? Then I have:

Augusta
Amelia "Emily"
Helen (or Ellen)
(great grandmother was Pauline)

Audrey May (died in childhood)
Viola Jane (died in childhood)
Eileen

Helen
Caroline "Cline"
Stella
(great-grandmother was Mary)

This message was edited 6/28/2017, 8:02 AM

- Anneza

6/28/2017, 7:27 AM

Ivy Janet, or perhaps Janet Ivy! She appears as both in the records.
Christiana
Dinah
Florence Emily

And by marriage:

Nellie Sandford (Nellie was her full name)
Isabella
Elizabeth Mary
Marguerita Beatrice (I think she was at least partly German)

- Remora L. (Uilos)

6/28/2017, 7:22 AM

My paternal grandfather and maternal grandmother don't have sisters, so my great-aunts would be...

Raisa Maria Carméla - her full name is definitely my favorite!

Maikki Hellin
Helena - she didn't have a MN
Saimi Marjatta
Aino Ellen
Taina Marketta
Riitta-Sisko Hillevi

- Tuesday (tuesday9)

6/28/2017, 7:17 AM

I don't know their middle names, but my paternal grandfather had a sister named Hildegard, and my paternal grandmother had two sisters named Florence and Shirley. Don't know DOB's but all from the mid 1920s.

- Mistawis +4

6/28/2017, 6:57 AM

These are/were all of my great aunts...

Velma Elizabeth
Mable Adaline (not typos)
Millicent Louise
Myrtle Irene
Mary Minerva
Clarice Lucille
Stella Anna
Edith Elzene
Dorothy Fay
Rosalie (has no middle name)

And these were my great aunts by marriage...

Ruth (don't know middle name)
Elva (don't know middle name)
Mary Loree
Dorothy Louise
Doris Pauline
Virginia Lucille "Virgie"
Sylvesta "Hazel"

- Joiya

6/28/2017, 9:30 AM

Swoon! Mary Minerva and Clarice Lucille!

I pretty much like all of these names.

- Tuesday (tuesday9)

6/28/2017, 7:23 AM

Wow these are great! Especially Mary Minerva and Virginia Lucille!

- Wordsmith +1

6/28/2017, 7:03 AM

I love Millicent Louise, Myrtle Irene, Mary Minerva, Clarice Lucille, and Edith Elzene.

Do you know anything about Elzene?

- Mistawis

6/28/2017, 8:39 AM

I know that she was given Elzene as a middle name in honor of a relative (it was her first name, if I remember correctly), but I don't know the origins or meaning of the name.

- queenv

6/28/2017, 6:45 AM

I had many great-aunts:

Julia (always called Jule)
Gladys
Lillian (never knew her, though---she died at age 11)
Eileen
Muriel
Mae or May, not sure of the spelling
Kay (I assume her full name was Katherine but I don't recall ever being specifically told this)
Louise
Pauline