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Old 09-22-2013, 03:25 AM   #1
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What Is Your Downton Abbey Name?

First name of any of your Grandparents.
Name of any school you attended.

Obviously don't respond if you feel it's sensitive information.

Mine is Alice Henry Floyd.
I have gifted my sister Daisy Quarrendon (very below stairs dontcha know)
And my bro can be James St Louis.

No reason the names should sound British.
They brought some staff back from the Colonies
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Old 09-22-2013, 04:37 AM   #2
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Hmmm...

Patricia Sharples....

Or,

Nellie Gaskell.
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Old 09-22-2013, 07:30 AM   #3
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Old 09-22-2013, 07:58 AM   #4
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Old 09-22-2013, 08:10 AM   #5
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Lidya St. Margaret (upstairs?)
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Araceli Sanchez (staff brought from abroad)
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Old 09-22-2013, 09:12 AM   #6
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Old 09-22-2013, 03:02 PM   #7
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Old 09-22-2013, 03:05 PM   #8
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Adeline Connaught.

Or ... Adeline Regina.
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Old 09-22-2013, 03:30 PM   #9
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Patricia Sharples
Nellie Gaskell.
Oh dear. Underhousemaids for you. Or stage doxies of course.
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Araceli Sanchez (staff brought from abroad)
She could could maybe manage to be a dispaproved of Peruvian bride
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No need to include the whole name. But I'd stil suggest a chauffeur or a groom
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Or Adeline Regina.
No. Not Regina, that is reserved only for the Queen.

NB: my Mum has researched our genealogy and we are char-women and washer-women and people who hide when the rent-men come. So my opinions are in jest and not meant to denigrate anyone else's familes.
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Old 09-22-2013, 06:04 PM   #10
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William Evans, great name for a barrister.

or

Joseph Akiba, a little too Jewish for Downtown Abbey.
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Old 09-22-2013, 07:11 PM   #11
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Elizabeth Vanier - just sounds upper crust!

Eugene MacDonell- tg I'm a country boy
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Old 09-23-2013, 08:56 PM   #12
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No. Not Regina, that is reserved only for the Queen.
Yes, I know. That's why I made the silly face. Queen Adeline!
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Old 09-22-2013, 07:17 PM   #13
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These are all such fun character names!
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Old 09-22-2013, 10:50 PM   #14
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George Newcastle

That's the only school I attended that would work.
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Old 09-22-2013, 11:48 PM   #15
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James Burnside
Or
Maury Pickering

Maybe James Pickering. ...

Definitely not Maury Burnside..... too holocausty
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