Meanings of great-great-grandfathers in English

A New Zealand man will today hand back treasures his great-great-grandfathers ransacked from a Burmese pagoda more than 160 years ago.

Thirty great-great-grandfathers and great-great-grandmothers had made us what we were; it was no good fighting against them and the millions at their backs.

It's something that was passed on by their great-great-grandfathers and their grandfathers and now the sons are getting an interest, Mr Rabago said.

Prof Shriver is confident that in two years the idea of seeing the faces of our great-great-grandfathers will no longer be science fiction.

At the Lighthouse School, kids knew every branch of their entire family tree, going back to their great-grandfathers and great-great-grandfathers, and before that.

As every man may count two grandfathers, four great-grandfathers, eight great-great-grandfathers, and so on, a few generations give him a good chance for selection.

You remember reading in your history, how, when our great-great- grandfathers came to this country to live, they found it occupied by Indians.