To ask what your great-great-grandparents did?

[Rosamund1]

Mine was a hamster.

Mother's side: Career Army and Factory Owners
Father's side: Agricultural Labourers

My Mother's Family still looked down on DF although he was a very successful Pilot whilst they hardly a pot to piss in.

To add, further back they were major, MAJOR royals. Got back to the 9th century before my subscription ran out.

No clue on maternal side. Paternal side, my Grandads parents: he was a miner, she owned and ran several corner shops. My Grandmas parents: she was a school cook and he was retired by the time my Gran was born so I don’t know what he did. Must remember to ask.

VeryFoolishFay

You win!!

Irish immigrants who worked in mine industry/steel industry in South Wales.

Farmers, shipping, tailor and not sure about the other one, something to do with wall paper.

Great grandmother (paternal side) had 12 surviving children and was an ‘unofficial’ bookmaker. My youngest dd has great maths skills. Neither me or her dad can claim them. I think she’s a throwback. Whether she uses them for good or evil only time will tell. I think the modern equivalent might be hedge-fund manager. The shame.
I have no knowledge at all of great great grandparents.

Hand loom weavers, weavers, victuallers, school teachers, labourers, carters, miners.

Now, if I can go back a few (well ok quite a few😂)hundred years my paternal family were earls and the like. One of the families who were known as more Irish than the Irish .

Police
Railway worker
Headmaster
Indian railway

Ooh I love delving into the past. Mostly miners, a Wesleyan preacher, a tailor and in my Mam’s side a confectioner

I don't know anything before my grandparents- think I'll ask DParents.

What is a mock-take thread?

Victorian industrialist that owned a hat factory on the English side

A civil servant, mandarin on the Chinese side. His DS my Grandfather fled mainland China during the communist uprising, he was a merchant. The family ancestral home is now a museum.

One of DH ancestors was a signatory to Charles l death warrant, another was a Huegenot that escaped France due to religious persecution.

VeryfoolishFay that story is a total shock! have you been able to find mugshots of your ancestor and or a full description of his physical features.

Baker & confectioner
Chair maker
Cabinet maker
Butcher

Among other ancestors: music engraver, furrier, fancy box maker, railway porter, cobbler, chemical worker (who knows what that entailed), plumber, pub landlord, tea dealer, laundress, several household servants, several more cabinet makers and butchers, ship's carpenter, horse dealer, and on DH's side a whole load of potters and teachers.

For the ones I know, there's a cabinet maker (m), a dressmaker (f), a head horseman on an agricultural estate (m), a soldier (m) and at least a couple of agricultural workers.

Can have a go:

Mat grandad: blood stock agent
Mat grandma: racecourse owner, horse breeder and trainer and inherited farm

Great grandparents
Grandad's, government minister Russia, fled in 1917 with 4 sons.
Grandma's - owned a racecourse and a farm

Think paternal great greats were much the same except that grandma's grandma's antecedents who were Irish were rumoured to be horse thieves rather than owners and trainers. Someone on grandma's side was a ship's captain and she only inherited the farm and race cpurse because her brothers were killed in the 2nd world war.

Pat Grandad: physician
Pat grandma: housewife (in Berlin and neither survived war - Jewish - father arrived UK on Kinder transport).
I believe pat grandads side were business people previously and grandma's side were sephardic jews originating from Portugal - I know her father was a rabbi.

Master mariner, marine engineer, painter decorator, foundry Forman, shipwright, anchorsmith, blacksmith. Bit of a theme going on there.

Sorry opted too soon the women were all listed as wife of...

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G, G Grandad - Journeyman Carpenter, his wife had children and lots of them.

G, G Grandad - Lord (did nothing, probably blatted a few rabbits and peasants and shouted a lot) , his wife had children but not many of them.

G, G Grandad - Ships Boilermaker for White Star Line (Titanic etc), his wife a Doctors Receptionist and had lots of children.

G, G Grandad - Rag and Bone man (not the singer) his wife a Charwoman and had lots of children.

All maternal sets lived in same cluster of hamlets in Scottish highlands, all gamekeepers or worked on L Lovat's estate. One died in an asylum. All from Scotland, half Glasgow and half around Loch Ness way . My great grandparents generation took over same roles and houses, and their sons, and their sons... lovely lovely family - very close knit.

One of the Glasgow families , the family that adopted my gt gt gran (maternal grandmother's grandmother) , were superintendents of an SVDP shelter for 'newsboys'... keep meaning to try and learn more. I have a v v old photo of a lady we suspect might be connected.

My father's adoptive first cousin lives in the same house my gt gt grandad lived in once upon a time, in same hamlet, oddly.

Dad was adopted at birth so not sure about his, nothing too extraordinary though. All from Glasgow. Adoptive grandparents were farmers, and railway workers - did a lot for early trade unions and labour party. My gt granda (my papa's dad) was an architect of some importance. He comes up on Google anyway.

Hobbittses..

Your great great grandfather was a hamster? Is that a typo?

I do have one relative had 17 children to 3 women, over 30 years - miraculously, for the time and place (Staffordshire potteries) all survived to adulthood . The mother of 13 of them died at just 42 or something though.

I have no idea what they did but i do know what they looked like

Dunno, I think they were likely to be farmers but not sure.