To ask what your great-great-grandparents did?

[Rosamund1]

Mine was a hamster.

He speciality was rectums

Mine were quite dull really. Worked in various local manufacturing industries, coal miners, farmers. The most interesting one was a navvy and dug the Manchester Ship Canal.

I think the mock take thread bit is because I noticed in Active that someone else had a thread going about what did your great grandparents do. I've been rather busy this weekend helping dig people out of snowdrifts etc so missed the usual activity of Friday night.

these are from the marriage certificates so after this the women would have stayed home with the children.
On my mums side mine were, labourer, dyers labourer dyers assistant, jute preparer, railway clerk, flax dresser and a flax mill worker.

On my dads side they were a drapers porter, housekeeper, railway worker, jute spinner, coachman, domestic servant, seaman in merchant service and another jute spinner.

I only know about one of them, my maternal grandmother's father's mother. She was in service. Her son was illegitimate. Must have been awful.

One great-grandfather was a fisherman. He was rescued when his bought sank and married the daughter of his rescuer. Another set were grocers. Rest worked in agriculture

His boat sank

On my mums side my great great (probably x5 or 6) grandmother used to dance and sing for queen victoria. My mum has a very sought after, portrait of her hanging on the wall. It eerie as my DM bares very little resemblance to her parents but looking at this portrait is like looking at my mum!

Only know my mum's side. Not started tracing my dad's yet.

Butcher & Housewife
Publican & Housewife
Merchant Navy & Shopkeeper
Miller & Dressmaker

The eldest of my gg grandparents was born in 1817. The youngest in 1866. Nearly 50 years apart!

Farmer on mother’s side, miner on father’s.

On father's side a farmer and station master
Mothers side a small town monopoly man; if you could buy it or consume it he would own the shop or outlet selling it. On the other side an adventurer who abandoned his wife and children when she ran out of money (family had land), she died destitute. He supposedly was involved in financing early cinema studio.

One was a tailor and I have no idea what his wife did. One pair were farmers.

No idea about the paternal side of things -- no one passed on the information.

Boilermaker and shopkeeper

Dock Labourer and Charwoman

I think mock-thread because recently here’s been a few threads ‘what did your parents do’, ‘what did your grandparents do’ ‘did you grow up poor’ etc etc.

My great great grandfather was an astronaut.

Police messenger (pre phone/radio everything done person to person).
Greengrocer cart holder turned sweet cart holder.
Seamstress.
Reported sailor, unsure as also family abandoner.
Took in laundry/sewing.
Coach painter.

Before that, all gerbils.

Shepherds and publicans as far as we can tell. DH is posh so family records are more complete: bankers, solicitors and land-owning types.

One was a mayor and one was a docker!

One was in the Navy, another was a colonial tea farmer. Not sure about the rest truth be told (I think one set were regular farmers) but I don't think it was glamorous

One of mine would have been a trigamist if he’d had a conscience. In fact he successively ran away with singers, got them pregnant and after, say, baby 2 ran away again. God knows where his DNA takes us, certainly down under.

One side, farming, 12 to a cottage. Other side, lived in castles and, I don't know, order maids around?

Coal miner and a Farrier

One of my great great grandfathers was a miner who died in pit disaster, one was a baker, one was something to do with the railways and I can’t remember the rest offhand (I have researched all).

The illegal multiple marriage comments remind me of a very distant relative. It's a distinctive surname. I found him in another part of the country with his wife. She was born in the same town. Her first name is not unusual but not common. He had a sister of the same name and age. I can find no marriage to match.

Ooh, have remembered a couple worked on farms and came to Wales to find work.

The ones I know about were: iron turner, general labourer/moulder, flax spinner, iron moulder, labourer and linen weaver.