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What did your grandparents do work wise?

265 replies

JaceLancs · 04/03/2018 12:56

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

OP posts:
Whosamawotsits · 04/03/2018 13:41

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

FaFoutis · 04/03/2018 13:42

Docker
Housewife
Cobbler
Housewife

FrancisCrawford · 04/03/2018 13:43

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Tiptoethr0ughthetulips · 04/03/2018 13:43

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

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 04/03/2018 13:45

GF1 GP
GM1 His receptionist!

GF2 Owned a fruit and veg shop
GM2 Primary teacher.

7to25 · 04/03/2018 13:46

All weavers

Abetes · 04/03/2018 13:46

Deputy Head/science teacher
Housewife
Milkman
Housewife

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 04/03/2018 13:48

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

Gwenhwyfar · 04/03/2018 13:49

"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.

maras2 · 04/03/2018 13:50

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.

wrenika · 04/03/2018 13:52

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.

ScreamingValenta · 04/03/2018 13:53

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 Grin.

Kestant · 04/03/2018 13:54

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

Loonoon · 04/03/2018 13:55

GM1 Cleaner
GF1 Radio operator on commercial planes

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

bluebells1 · 04/03/2018 13:56

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.

lidoshuffle · 04/03/2018 13:56

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

Niskasrevenge · 04/03/2018 13:56

GF 1: Engineer
GM1: Nurse

GF 2: Factory foreman
GM 2: SAHP

Darkbendis · 04/03/2018 13:57

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

MaggieFS · 04/03/2018 13:58

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!)

Gwenhwyfar · 04/03/2018 13:58

"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.

romany4 · 04/03/2018 13:59

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

MilkTrayLimeBarrel · 04/03/2018 14:00

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

Blackteadrinker77 · 04/03/2018 14:01

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

angieloumc · 04/03/2018 14:01

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

UnimaginativeUsername · 04/03/2018 14:02

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