What did your grandparents do work wise?

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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

GF1 Police Sargent
GM1 Librarian
GF2 British aerospace engineer/politician
GM2 Nurse

Docker
Housewife
Cobbler
Housewife

DGF coal Miner
DGM Secretary
DGF Farmer
DGM Seamstress /Cook/ housewife

GF1 GP
GM1 His receptionist!

GF2 Owned a fruit and veg shop
GM2 Primary teacher.

All weavers

Deputy Head/science teacher
Housewife
Milkman
Housewife

Grandad - panel beater
Grandma - shop assistant
Grandpa - civil servant
Granny - 'housewife'

"This sounds like one of those threads that's designed to weed out people you might know. "

That would only work if your grandparents had rare jobs.

Grandmother - school secretary
Grandfather - clerical worker

Grandfather - government department
Grandmother - SAHM/housewife then cleaner

I need to check about great-grandparents, at least some were agricultural workers or farmers and at least one died young. I need to find out about the women.

GM1: Died. Puerperal Sepsis after giving birth to my dad in 1921.
GF1: Died. Diphtheria same year.
GM2: Working narrow boat family till married 1921 then had 5 children in 7 years, todays equivalent of SAHP.
She died aged 60.
GF:2 Army during WW1 then office clerk in a large metal producing foundry.
He died aged 60.

On my dad's side - my papa was an engineer, and my gran was a seamstress in her young days, then she became a mum and stopped working. She volunteered in a charity shop when she was older but my papa was the wage earner.

On my mum's side - my grandpa was a street cleaner (he had a job as a forestry worker but gave that up because my gran wanted to move back closer to her family). He died young from cancer - before I was born - and my gran worked any job that put food on the table. The one I remember clearest was her working in a grocers.

There is a clear divide between the two sides of my family. Mum's side is very much working class while my dad's side was in a position where my gran didn't need to go out and work.

That would only work if your grandparents had rare jobs.

And if you were in the habit of telling your friends and acquaintances what your grandparents did for a living; though I suppose it might enable you to spot a sibling or cousin who was on MN .

GF1 - Soldier, died at 30
GM1 - Mother/farmer
GF2 - Inventor/designer
GM2 - Mother/holiday park operator

GM1 Cleaner
GF1 Radio operator on commercial planes

GM2 Cleaner
GF1 - no idea he scarpered before DF was born.

GM1: Stay at home mum
GF1: Civil Service, retired as a farmer
GM2: SAHM with a small homemade chutney making business
GF2: Business owner. I think it was a furniture shop. Not sure.

DullAndOld - was a 'pureman' the bloke who collected people's urine for use in industry? And we moan about our jobs!

GF 1: Engineer
GM1: Nurse

GF 2: Factory foreman
GM 2: SAHP

Maternal: army officer and housewife (degree educated in Maths)
Paternal: consultant and psychologist (step GM bank clerk)

Yes, getting a bit more potentially outing as the only great grandparents I know about are the 'interesting ones' we all know and talk about.

• Pipe major in the army
• Merchant Navy Ship's Captain

I must look the others up....

(and if any descendants ever look DH and I up, we'll appear really boring!)

"And if you were in the habit of telling your friends and acquaintances what your grandparents did for a living"

That's if they remember isn't it? I wouldn't worry too much about it. Your cousins wouldn't know what the gp on the other side did.

My paternal grandparents ran a pub
My maternal nanny worked in a factory. My grandad was a glazier

Father's parents: Accountant and Housewife
Mother's parents: RAF and Shorthand Typist

GM Maternal Served in the army when the men were away fighting. Then a house maid to a rich family
GD Maternal Served in the army, not sure what after that as they divorced in the late 60s
GM Paternal Seamstress
GP Paternal was a draughtsman

Mothers side: DGF, army captain
DGF, civil servant for whatever DWP was called in the 60's/70's

Fathers side: DGF, taxi cab company owner
DGM, district nurse

I don’t think my grandparents’ jobs were in any way unusual: miner, seamstress, road worker and cleaner.