General Chat

A friend of my mum was the midwife who delived me and choose my name as mum wanted a boy and Dad wanted a new car.. No one had ever heard of it..

Betty Patrick was my gggrandads name. june.

guess who was every ones little lollipop when i was born!!! Shirley

I was named after both sets of Great-Grandmothers both had the same first and sceonds names~ One lived in good old U.K. and the other in the Netherlands. R.B.xxx

Named after the nanny from film Sound of Music. Better stick to the day job cos I can't sing to save my life, sound like the cats choir! .

I'm named Laura after the song 'Tell Laura I Love Her', middle name Jane after my dads sister Jane died shortly before I was born

my eldest brother prayed for a sister as all his class mates had one and he only had a brother. So hence here I am sent from heaven above Gloria lol and they they named a perfume after me so wasnt that nice.

Yes little lost cuz you say about perfume called Gloria i said earlier i thought June my name was after a perfume as my B/dayisn,t in June. June.

Carol Lombard and I think Neil Sedaka song, 'oh Carol' Caz xxxxx

Oh Nyneve very Nostalgic used tto love Neil Sedaka June X

During the war my Dad was based in Belgium they were camped parked? for sometime and a couple used to come out and take the soldiers hot soup etc. One couple became friendly with my Dad and kept in touch after the war. When they found out about me being on the way they asked if I could be named after them . If I had been a boy I would have been called Emanuel. They must have been a very special couple for my parents to do that. They kept in touch for many years when I was little I often wonder what became of them. Hense no way was my name ever!!! to be cut short to Gerry and it never has those that tried were soon pulled up that was her one stipulation. Germiane x

Germaine isn, that a nice way for your Parents to have repaid the kindness we are all one family if only some would realise June.

We all have Irish names in my family. I was told though my Mam liked film stars Maureen O'Hara and Maureen O'Sullivan,(who was Tarzan's mate! ) M.O'Sullivan is also Mia Farrow's mother. Maureen

Oh Maureen so you have the Irish in you Great ! June

I was named via the Scottish naming pattern after my maternal grandmother: Jeanie McDougall then surname Brewerton. If I had had an elder sister I would have been called Ethel Wilkes Brewerton. Ethel was all the rage in late 1800's. Not many now.

June Irish ( Flannaghan) and Italian on my Mam's side. Dad was fostered as a baby, but he was Patrick and his sister who we found was a Kathleen. Still haven't found records of their parents yet. I live in hope! Mau xx

Jeanie i prefer that to Ethel although it,s in my Hubbys family and Maureen on my mums side Irish Hennelly Cairns Kearns Lynch Moran Junex

My first name Jacqueline in after both my grandfathers but my middle name Teresa is after a film my mum watched when she was pregnant with me. I think it was called the miracle and starred Roger Moore who fell in love with a young nun whose name was Teresa. I had never seen this film until 2 weeks after my mum died. I was having a hard time sleeping and went downstairs to watch telly and it was on. I might be stupid but I thought of it as a sign from my mum. Jackie

Jackie i have strong beliefs in that area and i believe our loved ones are never far away. Glad you felt your Mums Presence . June x

Sorry June got a visitor. Yes it was lovely and makes you think how grateful they must have been to have our troops there. Dad didn't talk much about what he saw during the war but he seemed very fond of this couple and also a little girl in Holland her mother wouldn't speak to the soldiers but she used to send her little girl and she would pick up their washing and the soldiers used to give them soap and chocolate. In return. She used to stand and watch while the little girl went and collected and returned the washing. Germiane x