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Re: Old fashioned names
« Reply #45 on: Wednesday 03 August 16 11:36 BST (UK) »
My grandmothers sister was called Cissie but her actual names were Eva Alice. 



It must have been a common nickname back then  :)

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Re: Old fashioned names
« Reply #46 on: Wednesday 03 August 16 12:02 BST (UK) »
Today we think of Emma as quite a popular name, but when my mum was born in the 1920s, she was given the name as her middle name (after her grandmother). She absolutely hated it, thinking it was so old fashioned and would never use it. I almost forgot it when I registered her death.

I wonder what our parents and grandparents would think were old fashioned?
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Re: Old fashioned names
« Reply #47 on: Wednesday 03 August 16 12:04 BST (UK) »
My Aunt was known as Cissie but her given names were Cecilia Ivy. Anther Aunt was Poppy but really Evelyn May and their Brother was Jack but actually Basil Minter Jack.  I had a real job finding them on the census!
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Re: Old fashioned names
« Reply #48 on: Wednesday 03 August 16 12:19 BST (UK) »
I wonder if Cissie somehow grows and sticks forever from a very young child's attempt to say Sister, perhaps when a new baby comes into a family?

I know two wee twin girls who call each other Sissa, but sometimes it's Sissy!   Just a thought.

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Re: Old fashioned names
« Reply #49 on: Wednesday 03 August 16 12:33 BST (UK) »
I have been thinking about this thread for far too long now  ;D

I think the names that I consider old-fashioned are the names of my parent's friends and neighbours.  When I was young (10 years old), their friends and neighbours were all in their 30's and 40's (really old!!).  Their names were Iris, Sheila, Mavis, Betty, Megan, Freda, Eric, Charlie, Fred, Dick.  These are the people that were around me all the time and these names seem really old-fashioned to me, more-so than my family names.

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Re: Old fashioned names
« Reply #50 on: Wednesday 03 August 16 12:37 BST (UK) »
My Gt Aunt was a Cecilia Maud, she was always known as Cissie too. Her Aunt was a Beatrice Maud.

I've just been reading up on the name Cissie - a diminutive of any masculine/feminine name beginning with 'Christ'.

I rather like your idea JB :)
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Re: Old fashioned names
« Reply #51 on: Wednesday 03 August 16 12:40 BST (UK) »
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I can't think when I've met one of them, other than my great auntie Madge
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Re: Old fashioned names
« Reply #52 on: Wednesday 03 August 16 12:55 BST (UK) »
Their names were Iris, Sheila, Mavis, Betty, Megan, Freda, Eric, Charlie, Fred, Dick.  These are the people that were around me all the time and these names seem really old-fashioned to me, more-so than my family names.

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I always considered Megan to be a modern name. I'd never heard of it until I watched Anne of Green Gables. Then my daughter's friend named her daughter Megan after the actress Megan Follows aka. Anne of Green Gables.  ;D

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Re: Old fashioned names
« Reply #53 on: Wednesday 03 August 16 14:50 BST (UK) »
My youngest son’s two boys are named Reubin and Joshua.

Don’t know where the names came from,both parents ostensibly C of E though are not really religious.
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