Advice: what would Giles' mother be named?

[dragonyphoenix]

Anyone have a good name for Giles' mother. I have Faith's PoV and she thinks of Giles as, well, Giles. It's sort of odd, in that context, referring to his mother as Mrs. Giles.

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[gillo]

Presumably she's now in her late 80s. Relatives of mine of that generation (thus British) include Thelma, Anne, Pamela (three of those), Mary, Ethel (already a bit old-fashioned; she hated it), Dorothy, Josephine, Audrey...

[il_mio_capitano]

Got to agree with the Pamelas. I can think of a couple of those in my circle too.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[gillo]

It's one of those names like Susan or David for children of the fifties. Presumably she would have had a relatively upmarket name, too.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

upmarket?

[gillo]

Class was a fairly big deal in names back in the twenties. Certain names - flower names like Rose, for example, were considered lower class then. Daisy is another mostly working class example. (Princess Margaret was Margaret Rose, but few of her own class copied that. ( I'm assuming that the Ripper phase was Giles fighting back against the stifling class background broadly similar to Wesley's.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Whoa, that's fascinating. I've never heard that.

[gillo]

I have read one heck of a lot of fiction about kids in theory born around then. It's very clear.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I can see where she wouldn't have liked Ethel. Audrey is a pretty name though. That's my favorite.

[gillo]

She was known to everyone outside her family as'Tod' which confused her relatives greatly at her funeral in April.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

She should have made her family call her Tod as well.

I remember when my friend switched from Debbie to Deb. Dad and I were traveling together to Michigan for a family visit. After I told him she was changing what she wanted to be called, he started teasing me with "So,when you see Debbie, tell Debbie ..." and so on.

[gillo]

I think some of her very close family did, but she was 94 when she died and only had one relatively distant nephew and his family left.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

94? Good for her!

[gillo]

My Mum will be 89 in a couple of months. An impressive generation.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Very.