To ask what your great-great-grandparents did?

[Rosamund1]

Mine was a hamster.

I actually do know that one was a footballer who played for Wales. Rest I don't know.

paternal side gran- was a preacher granddad- preacher (killed in the genocide) dont know the about the other side.
maternal side were royalty in Georgia.But after the Soviet rule they lost their status. the other side were jeweler and a housewife

Mill workers, farmers, stonemasons, miners. Family history geek.

Mostly ag labs, but it now appears as though one set were Romani from Germany and Belgium, who came over to Scotland after a pogrom. I am trying to track them down, but there are no written records of the Romani - they didn't keep any. However, I shall keep digging and hopefully learn more when I meet up with my cousin.

i have gone quite far back in my family research and have even found a murderess in the family...

It was a mock-take thread but the answers are actually fascinating.
What on earth are you on about?

"One was in the local papers for beating his wife."

My mum's mum's father once killed a man in a drunken brawl in Port Glasgow.

The men were dockworkers, labourers and bricklayers, I think. The women, if not housewives, were mill workers, domestics and typists, generally.

Police Constable
Dress Maker

Tailor
Housewife

Swivel maker / manufacturer (employing 12 hands) (swivels are to do with pocket watches)
Housewife

Labourer
Housewife

Stone / Mason's labourer
Char-woman

Butcher
Housewife

Master Shoemaker
Housewife

Farmer of 70 acres
Servant / then Housewife

DH's family, one side (northern) were textile weavers & shoe makers until we get far enough back that they are farmers again. Other side (southern) were farmers back to start of any records.

coachman/gardener - 6 DC
Baker - 5DC
Bricklayer - 11 DC - 2 died as young children
Railway Inspector/ Station Master - 9 DC - 2 died young
Razor Whetter - 2 DC with DW1, 4 DC with DW2 - 1 died young
Coal Agent - 7 DC
Joiner - 9 DC - lost one
Silversmith - 10 DC - lost 4.

My great grandfather was a blacksmith, last one in the village where my grandad was from. Great grandmother, stayed at home I imagine.

Farmers, coal miners, steel workers and a publican.

I come from a long line of English peasantry on all sides. I had one of those dna things done for Christmas, thought there might be a bit of something interesting like Viking in there.

Nope, 80% rural English and 20% Norman French (we'll have come over in the entourage I'm sure, not gentry ).

OP, you have no idea what you have done
I'd stopped doing my Family tree as it was beginning to take over, still there at 3.am, unaware of the hours ticking by.
Guess what I'm doing tonight
I love it, it's so interesting.
Hello to any other keen genealogists.

I think the OP was doing a parody after the couple of 'What did your parents/grandparents do' threads earlier. Not expecting anyone to know or care what gg grandparents did :)

2 of them I guess were Jewish immigrants from Somewhere European in first half of 19th century, their first names were Gern & Daniele but the second name on the census was an anglicised Jewish surname.

I would like to learn more but can't get further back on that side of the family.

I'm not Jewish myself though.

Aw, well some of us do care, or at least know.

No idea. One of my great grandparents was born in 1826, I've no idea what he did but he must have given mick jagger some inspiration as he was in his 70's when my grandfather and his siblings were born!

Genealogy is amazing, I've traced my grandad's family on my dads side to the 16th century.

People keep saying my surname is foreign but it has been in England since the 1500s when it was changed from something Latin sounding (possibly Spanish in origin).

Mums side: Miner, miner, shopkeeper, housewife.
Dads side: Unknown, Died at 20 of diptheria (orphaning my grandad), fostercarer, merchant seaman.

The merchant seaman is the most interesting. He went all over the world and was even shipwreaked a couple of times!
He docked in Shanghai immediately before and after the revolution and was so impressed with the transformation of the city that he joined the communist party as soon as he returned to the UK.
As an older man he bought and sold parrots in Brick Lane market.
He was involved in some (ahem) "ducking and diving". But according to family lore everyone was in those days and it was just to "keep the family fed"
I tell my son he was a pirate

Mostly farmers, I'll have to take a look at my tree to see if anything else (all in Australia)

Cathedral canon
Industrial chemist
Owned small jewellery business

Don't know any more of them!

My great great grandad on my dad’s side was the foreman at the building of Pancras station. The rest were miners or housemaids apart from one great great granny who was an illegitimate relation of the earls of Warwick and lived as a ward in the castle like jane eyre

Left Ireland mid famine for USA. Met and married settling in Pennsylvania. He was in the army during civil war. Had several children, one of which was my great grandmother. Both died young.

No idea about any of the rest of the gr-gr-gps.

I'm adopted and all I had is one name, my bm.
I have traced back as far as I can and hit a brick wall, but it's interesting to find where I have come from.
It's taken me years and now I have something to pass to my children.
Who so far have shown absolutely no interest in at all

Not sure for great great grandparents, but given the dates, where they lived and race I'd say they were most likely slaves or experiencing the tail end of it.

The only one I know of was a surgeon.

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