To ask what your great-great-grandparents did?

[Rosamund1]

Mine was a hamster.

One great grandfather, and all his antecedents for about 300 years, was the town undertaker. He was very disappointed when my grandfather grew up with a phobia of dead bodies and refused to work in the family business as expected (he ran a timber yard instead and was a brilliant woodworker, assume he started off helping with coffin making).

Another was a farmer. His male children carried on with that until the 70s when they retired and sold most of the land after building properties on it. That side are pretty wealthy now!

Another was a docker. Not sure about the 4th, I should ask my mother. He may have been a docker as well.

All females - Housewives
Males - Painter / decorator, Farmer, Farmer, Soldier, Weaver

That I know of, one was a farmer, one was a fisherman, one was a police officer, and one was a rum-runner/privateer.

A press setter in the wool industry in Huddersfield; a journeyman carpenter in Westmorland then Yorkshire; four Yorkshire farmers, a Yorkshire master wheelwright, a Yorkshire fisherman on the rivers Humber and Ouse. Wives all also from Yorkshire except for one unknown and another who came from a mighty distance of - 5 miles over the border in Lincolnshire. On my mum's side almost every ancestor going back 500 years were farmers, farming in the same few villages including the parish where I live.

Mums side - travelling photographer and farmer
Dad's side - hairdresser and shipbuilder

Worked in t’mill. If we’d been further north guess they’d have been down pit. Turns out one was busy shagging another bloke too

I only know one, but he was very interesting! He was a Frenchman from Paris, moved to the north of England and opened a fish and chip shop, back when they weren't common.

Who cares?

I actually know this for my paternal side! for me. 🙄

Paternal Great-Grandmother's Parents:
GGGF was a railroad engineer
GGGM was a farmer/SAHM

Paternal Great-Grandfather's Parents:
GGGF was a rancher
GGGM assisted in ranching and SAHM