Were your grandparents born in Victorian times?

[Familysearch]

My four grandparents were born: 1882, 1885, 1903, 1905.

All four of them had siblings born earlier - and I have memories of all of them - and also two of my great grandmothers! Whilst some of the family died at a young age, those I remember lived well into their 80s - hence the overlap with me and my siblings.

Although some of them did see War Service in the Great War - it was never talked about.  Nor was the second war, which even more of them experienced.

FS

[angelfish58]

My maternal grandparents were born in 1891 and 1894, grandad served in WW1. My paternal grandparents just scraped into the Victorian era, they were both born in 1900, I don't think grandad saw any fighting but was in Germany with the DLI.

[sami]

But you're still here    My attitude these days is "I'm still here, still causing chaos, and quite frankly I don't give a ......... " 

  .........agree completely

[Gadget]

Maternal:  grandfather  - 1866*  grandmother - 1873 ( the day after her parents married!)
Paternal:  grandfather - 1875 grandmother - 1878

I never knew my maternal grandparents - they died in the 1920s but Mum and her siblings told lots of stories about them,
My paternal ones died when I was 4; within 6 months of each other.  Gran was lovely and cuddly and always joking. Taid was quite stern.

* forgot to say that he and his 2 elder sons served with the RWF in WW1

[isobelw]

My maternal grandparents are in my avatar picture. Grandpa born 1893, grandma 1894. Picture taken about 1953. What strikes me is how old they look compared to me and my husband ( 62 and 65 respectively).
Isobel

[annaS]

My maternal grandad was born in 1871 and maternal granny in 1872.  Anna

[Caw1]

My paternal grandma was born in 1876 - as mentioned in previous post and died in 1968 - sadly I never knew her as my father never mentioned her and I only found out about her from my cousin when I found her! I missed 17 years of any time with her.

My maternal grandfather born 1887 died in 1978 and he was a lovely chap with a propr naughty twinkle in his eye! Both my children  saw him when he was alive which was lovely.

[medpat]

paternal grandmother 1881 died aged 81
paternal grandfather 1873 - fought in WW1 after volunteering, survived after being wounded, died just before his 80th birthday

maternal grandmother 1891 died aged 78
maternal grandfather 1890 fought in WW1 survived, had damaged lungs due to the gas, died aged 69

Remember them all. Dad was the baby of his family my mum the 2nd eldest, there are nearly 30 years between my eldest cousin and the youngest, 1933 - 1960. There are only 2 younger than me on my paternal side, I'm the eldest on my maternal side.

My maternal gt grandfather born 1862 also served in WW1 in the labour corps - he was a master bricklayer.

 

[despair]

Maternal Grandmother  1889
Maternal Grandfather    1877

Paternal Grandmother  1876
Paternal Grandfather* 1878

*Served with RWF and was awarded DCM.

Regards
Roger