What did your grandparents do work wise?

[JaceLancs]

Inspired by a previous thread - if you know that is
GM 1 deputy head of my old high school
GF 1 civil servant (fairly high up)
GM 2 bar maid
GF 2 chauffeur

GM1: nurse
GF1: engineer
GM2: teacher
GF2: business adviser

Maternal:
Metallurgist
Lady, i.e. organising staff and running the house

Paternal:
Merchant Navy then Harbourmaster
Tailoress then housewife

Both grandmas - houswives, mums. I think my mum's mum might have done some English teaching.

Maternal grandfather - vet, army Captain

Paternal grandfather - first job was at a radio shop when he was 14. He was supposed to be the 'repairman' but he would just turn up and tell them they needed a new radio. . Various bits and bobs in retail before and after the war. After the war, he got together enough money to start a small cigarette factory, though he never smoked himself. Eventually he moved into the rag trade and throughout my childhood he and my dad ran a children's clothes-making company until competition from Far East manufacturers put them out of business, and grandfather retired after that.

GM1 - psychiatric nurse
GF1 - farmer

GM2 - farmer and housewife
GF2 - farmer

one ancestor was a head groundsman and lived in the gatehouse of a lunatic asylum (that's exactly what it says).

Wow! Nice find @MaggieFS

Paternal GF - electrician.
Paternal GM - cleaner and then SAHM
maternal GF - manager in dairy company
Maternal GM - worked on railways and then SAHM

can we do Great Grandparents..

ok so there must be 8 of them...

GGF 1. unknown
GGF2 . unknown
GGF3. 'Pureman' - do you want to know what that means?
GGF4. Solicitor

GGM1,2,3, and 4 - I have no idea

Maternal grandfather: Carpenter and joiner
Maternal grandmother: Wife and mother (6 children)
Paternal grandfather: Tailor
Maternal grandmother: Governess then ran grocery shop (8 children)

maternal grandmother went into service at 16 in 1899 worked her way up to head cook before she married and had children
maternal grandfather was a barber
paternal grandmother worked as a department manageress in a big stoer in sauchihall street glasgow
paternal grandfather was in the navy

MP and wife didn't work

GP and wife didn't work/

Teacher
Stockbroker
Policeman
Housewife

GF-miner then caretaker in a college
GM - in service ( kitchen maid) and then stayed at home with 7 children
That's on my mother's side.

On my father's side-no idea. My GF died when my dad was young and my GM put him in a children's home.

Grandad - worked on the railways.
Nana - home help.
Grandad - don't know.
Grandma - prostitute

One grandfather was a labourer, the other was a manager. One grandma was a SAHM, the other also was until she was abandoned ( by manager grandad when he left for an OW) with a dependant child to feed, as he did not contribute financially either. Then she worked in a shop.

DH's side:
Teacher
Accountant
Merchant Navy
In service until marriage

Maternal - both pottery workers
Paternal - GF plasterer, GM pottery worker

Both sets of GPs ran their own businesses - printer and haulier. Most GPs were dead and businesses sold by the time I came along, but GM still had the big yard, lorry shed full of kit and a working petrol pump. When growing up I assumed this was all perfectly normal. More seriously, GM had run the firm on her own for some years after GFs death, and is only recently I've really grasped just how unusual that was for that time (early 60s).

GM (mum side) Seamstress
GF (-"-) fireman and black marketeer/"wide-boy" after the war.

GM (dad) writer
GF (dad) Naval officer

StepGM1 (dad) department manager in a large store
SGM2 (dad) cafe owner
SGM3(dad) bank clerk

SGF (dad) - retired architect - they married in their 80s.

GF on dad's side "got about a bit"

Dad's side:
GF - manager in a factory
GM - Dinner lady at primary school

Mum's side:
GF: Engineer
GM: Nurse

Maternal GF was factory worker who later became a librarian. GM was a housewife.

Parental GF was a carpenter and painter and GM wanted to work for the church as a deaconess, but she had to become a housewife when she married.

*paternal GF

Maternal GF - Sergeant in the army (fought in WW11 North Africa). But left after the war ended, due to what we now to be PTSD, and did various factory jobs.
Maternal GM - house wife/stay at home mother.

Paternal (step) GF - farmer on family farm in Ireland but left to come to England and worked as a painter decorator
Paternal GM - British Army (ATS) but unsure of what exactly she did. Then became a paralegal (not sure if it was actually called that then but that’s what it was)

My grandad worked for Royal Mail on the trains.

In service
Builder
Civil engineer
Secretary

Great grandparents -

One GGF was a railwayman and GGM his wife worked on a loom before marriage.

Another GGF was killed in WW1; unsure what he did before being called up.

Another GGF was a carpenter.

Others unknown.