To wonder how your parents and grandparents met?

[Daisywellies]

In a world where so many couples seem to meet on line or through work it would be nice to hear of how couples met years ago when the internet didn't exist and people didn't work the long hours they do nowadays.

My parents met through friends; one set of grandparents met when my grandfather knocked my grandmother over with his bike outside the local library, the other when my grandmother served my granddad in a tea shop.

My parents met at a dance, they knew each other by sight as they lived close to each other. Maternal grandparents met at a chip shop. My Nan worked there, my Grampy was in the army and stationed in the city.
I met my x in a pub, got talking to him as I knew his friend from the pub where I worked.

My parents met while on holiday, at a holiday camp in Sussex. They were both from North London, so it was easy to continue the friendship/courtship after the holiday ended.

My great grandparents met when they both were employed in the same shop. This was in the days when shop workers actually lived on the premises where they worked, in a kind of servants' quarters (like the TV series The Paradise). When they married my ggm had to give up her job because married women weren't allowed to work there. So they had to find somewhere else to live.

My parents met through a mutual friend - he was the mutual friends boyfriend at the time - apparently it was all a bit messy.

My maternal grandparents - my nana worked in her parents shop, my grandfather was a regular customer.

My paternal grandparents were in service together, met, married and had to leave the house.

My parents meet at a dinner party held by mutual friends and got engaged 3 months later.

My paternal grandparents went to university together - my grandmother was the only woman studying physics in the entire university at that time and was also (I've seen pictures) incredibly pretty. She must have been quite a catch in the department!

My maternal grandparents met at some kind of ball. And my grandfather apparently saw her across the room and decided she was the woman he was going to marry. And did.

My parents met at school.

Maternal parents - my gf hit my gm on the head with a tennis ball so walked her home. I don't know though if she was just passing or if they had mutual friends.

Paternal - not sure exactly, I know gf used to watch my stunning gm cycle along to work every day from afar.

Dad met mum at a New Cross dance hall in the 50s and it was supposedly love at first sight, on his side at least. I've only just made the connection that I also went to the same club, renamed as the Venue many years later. I didn't have the same kind of luck there however. I'll have to ask dad when I next visit. I'll also ask him if he was ever told how his parents/inlaws met as I'm curious now.

Thinking about it some more I recall hearing that my paternal grandmother was either training for domestic service or already in service, when she met my grandfather. She had been raised in an orphanage after her own dad died at sea and her mum died within a couple of weeks of hearing the news.

Looking at census info, it seems her mother/my great-grandmother must have met her husband when her parents had sailor's lodgings as her husband was originally a boarder there. And her own grandparents seem to have met under similar circumstances, except that was in Merseyside.

My parents met in a nightclub.

My parents met at Leeds University.

My maternal Grandparents were 'introduced' by their families - both were very dedicated academics, and neither interested in marrying or meeting the other. They met and hit it off. They were devoted to each other their whole lives.

Not sure about my other grandparents - I must find out.

Don't know about my GP's very interesting will have to ask.
My mum and dad met in the pub where my mum worked at the time and the ironic thing was my mum was supposed to be going to work at Butlins that very night but she got cold feet and turned up for work instead. It was also the first time my dad had visited that pub, and further irony. He wAs supposed to meet another women but she did not turn up. It transpired her car broke down, even more ironic he now lives on the same road that he arranged to meet the women.
I truly believe in fate 100%

Will RTFT tomorrow, when the wine has gone from our system. But...I'm all loved up and do love a good story so....

My Grandad met Olive. He was to go to a dance with her.

The night of the dance came. He stood outside the hall and waited. And waited. And waited.

My Nan was friends with Grandad's cousin, Doreen. They were going to the same dance that night.

Seeing her cousin stood outside, looking sad, Doreen went over and introduced my Nan to him.

3 children, 7 grandchildren as (so far) 6 great-grandchildren later, the family joke is "Olive has a lot to answer for"

Grandad passed away in1999 and my darling Nan, last November. Clearing her house out we found Grandad's love letters to her.

They fought like cat and dog, in my mum's words they were both "absolute swines" but they loved each other dearly.

My parents met because my Nan decided that my mum was meant for greater things than Liverpool, so sent her off to be a chambermaid in That There London, aged 17.

She worked in Weyhill before being moved to a hotel in a sleepy town in Hampshire, where one of the regulars with "long blonde hair and the body of Adonis" caught her eye. They married a year later.

they divorced 6 years after that but my dad followed her back Up North and they were remarried within 2 years, currently celebrating 38 years together

Parents at a club, dancing. they'd noticed each other before, when they were children.
Grandparents (maternal) at a dance. they shagged that night, allegedly. Early 1930s.
Grandparents (paternal) don't know, but they were neighbours and she was older than him.
I met the ex (now late) husband at a club, dancing.
There's a pattern...

My mum was dating a guy and my dad was his apprentice and also his lodger. mum moved in with this guy and ended up sleeping with the lodger so to speak.

my paternal grandparents met at a dance held by a church. Nan was just leaving to go to uni to become a teacher and Gramps was in the RAF they kept in touch by letter despite not seeing each other for a couple of years and when Both back in the same city they began courting

According to Dad, he turned up late to a dance when he was at university, and there, leaning against the wall was the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen. He decided there and then he would marry her.

According to mum, she was bored and annoyed with her friends for dragging her to a shit party, then some drunk idiot tried to chat her up. He seemed alright so she agreed to meet him sober and see if they hit it off :)

Nana and grandad met because he was joining a soldier and joining the army, and wanted a smart haircut before he joined. She was the hairdresser!

my nan went into service as a very young girl she came back pregnant and had a son my great grandparents used to keep her to her room and my grandad used to walk past with his friend and say he was going to marry her one day his family was dead against it she was also younger than him even his best friend was unhappy because she took him away from bf my grandad won and got married to my nan by all accounts it was a very happy marriage they had three children together

i think my parents met through friends because dads twin brother married my moms best friend who she lived with at the time

DM and bioD met on an assult course during cadet training, DM fell in the mud and bioD laughed - she bollocked him and he took her out for a drink

DM and DD were set up by a friend to play badminton - DM sprained her ankle and felt a right tit. She was right happy when he called in to check on her

One set of GPs met at school, GGF thought 18 too young to marry so they booked the church for the day after her 19th

Another set were on a blind date with other people (GD brought a friend and his date brought my GM) but they prefered each other. Met and married in 9 months

Other set met when GM was evacuated to GFs village during the war and she never left

My mum was staying with her relatives in another town, her cousin thought it would be funny to ask his best friend (my dad) round and then go out so his friend and my mum would be all embarrassed at meeting each other. It turned out differently.

Strangely although my parents had not met before this both their mothers went tot he same primary, my mum's mum's older sister was in the same class as my dad's mum. Apparently my mum's mum was convinced dad's mum was 'Rose Red' from the fairy tale.

No idea about my grandparents but my great grandparents on my mum's side.

Well that was a bit of a scandal.

Great granddad was a protestant Scot and working class to boot, he managed to get a nice mc RC girl upduffed. Her family very quickly arranged a marriage for her to a nice RC boy who was prepared to 'take her on', there are rumors about money or a shop being used as a bit of a bribe, but I have no idea.

Anyway my great grandmother was employed as a nanny/babysitter for the baby boy, she used to take him tot he park where she met a nice scotsman who seemed very fond of the little boy.

He soon had her upduffed as well (must have been a bit of a charmer) but she was allowed to marry him.

Interestingly when my grandmother was also in a similar situation at 19 she would not give permission to marry so maternal grandfather had to go to court and ask them for permission, I've not thought about it until now but with modern eyes it seems strange that he went to court, not her.