What jobs did your Grandparents do?

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And your Great Grandparents....AND what do you do? I'm just interested in the journeys...and I know this isn't really an AIBU but hey...there are more people here!

Here are mine....

Maternal Grandfather: Steelworker
Maternal Grandmother: Cleaner

Paternal Grandfather: Steelworker
Paternal Grandmother: Waitress

Great Maternal Grandfather: Boilermaker/Steelworker
Great Maternal Grandmother: Maid in a private house

Great Paternal Grandfather: Docker
Great Paternal Grandmother: Cleaner

Me: Actor and copywriter

I want to see other people's lists if possible...I find it fascinating that such a short time ago, some of my relatives couldn't write...a couple of those listed signed their marriage certificates with an X and beside that, the Registrar had written "Her mark".

It seems so strange...so few years have passed but so much social change has gone on. What will OUR great grandchildren see when they look at our records?

No idea about my dads side but my maternal grands was a nurse and midwife and my maternal grandfather was in the merchant navy and later became a river pilot.
I'm a nurse. As was my mum.

What an interesting thread! Very thought provoking. I am ashamed to say that I have no idea what even my grandparents did, although I do know that my paternal great grandfather was a circus performer.

Paternal:

Farmers (own farm, large land owners)

Maternal:

Grandad: Army then Banking
Grandma: Secretary then housewife

GGD: Vet
Grandma: lady of leisure!

Great grandparents - gosh, no idea. I think one may have been a plumber.

My dads dad was a vicar and his wife a housewife. Mums dad was a miner and his wife worked in a toffee factory.

It always surprises me when people my age knew their great grandparents!

Paternal
GGF: Army officer then policeman
GGM: SAHP
GF: Army officer then policeman
GM: SAHP
F: Civil servant in NATO and Ministry of Defence following army service.

Maternal:
GGF: master baker
GGM: no idea!
GM: Wren, then worked in Boots
GF: Army, then worked for Kodak
M: Civil servant at MI5, then SAHP, then marketing and press officer following retraining.

Me: teacher

I suppose I am always faintly suspicious of those 'tell me about yourself' OPs that seek to elicit personal information....not that I'm troll-hunting, I just think that it's not always a brilliant idea to broadcast personal details, even in the most innocent of of contexts.

Me too. Fascinating to read other people's though.

Do I need to go and buy a Daily Mail or just continue reading?

Maternal Grandfather: Soldier who, upon demob, drove “a bin-man's lorry” (to quote him).
Maternal Grandmother: Secretary with thwarted musical ambitions (she was accepted to study music at a top London school, which coming from the wilds of Wales was quite impressive in those days, but had to abandon her dreams when she was found to be pregnant with my DM).

Paternal Grandfather: Sailor.
Paternal Grandmother: Housewife, who drew a private income from the family farm.

Great Maternal Grandfather (1): Worked in the mines.
Great Maternal Grandmother (1): Housewife.

Great Maternal Grandfather (2): Farmer.
Great Maternal Grandmother (2): Farmer's wife, who drew a private income and owned property in her own right.

Great Paternal Grandfather (1): High ranking Army official.
Great Paternal Grandmother (2): An Officer's Wife.

Great Paternal Grandfather (2): Farmer.
Great Paternal Grandmother (2): Author.

Me: Forensic Archaeologist (and Mum!)

Both grandfathers: soldiers
Great grandfather: soldier and policeman

Grandmothers and great grandmothers; full time mothers to lots of kids, in one case spanning
both wars.

Me: sales

Maternal Grandfather - no idea he left when my mum was born
Maternal Grandmother - SAHM to the eight kids her dh had abandoned

Paternal Grandfather - origin unknown
Paternal Grandmother - singer in a club, prostitute (hence the "origin unknown"), clipper on the buses

It's a wonder my parents turned out smashing! Both of them have strong work ethic and family values.

Oh and no idea about my Great Grandparents.

Both my grandmothers made and trimmed hats
Both my grandfathers worked at a car factory, one on the press and one on colour matching - the one doing colour matching was colour blind but apparently that made him more sensitive to subtle shade differences in the same colour.

These jobs probably give a very good idea about the town from which I herald.

I know one of my great grandfathers was a master builder and another a miner, I am not sure about any of the others.

Paternal grandfather: mechanic
Paternal grandmother: school secretary

Maternal grandfather: engineer with mod
Maternal grandmother: Sam

Mum and dad both teachers

Me: teacher

M GF- worked for the guardian, not sure what he did exactly
M GM- Sahm and made wedding cakes for people in her spare time
P GF- train driver
P GM- Sahm until she was 38 when she opened her own children's nursery

Great grandparents- I have no idea

Great grandparents were all farmers, one set of Grandparents were also farmers. The other GF was a salesman, GM was a typist before marrying.
DF: Computer manufacturing
DM: receptionist before and post marriage.
I'm a civil servant.

Me too. Fascinating to read other people's though

Really? Long lists of the previous occupations of strangers? Fair enough, but I think you might be in the minority -- most people seem keener to blurt out their own lists rather than read other people's. That's why these threads are so effective, I suppose.

Maternal grandma didn't work
Maternal grandad farmer
Maternal great grandad publican (till he drank it away!)
Don't know about the other side will ask dm if she does

Gf mat - milkman and Gm Sahm
Gf pat - everything! Goldpanning, publican, builder... Gm alongside him for most of it once they married post ww2

GGF school teacher then farmer post immigration

GGF farmer

GGF mat - cigar makers then farming
GGF mat2 - building type stuff, farming

Note all emigrated to NZ or children of immigrants so not farming like UK more pioneerish (very small farms) in some cases

Really? Long lists of the previous occupations of strangers? Fair enough, but I think you might be in the minority -- most people seem keener to blurt out their own lists rather than read other people's. That's why these threads are so effective, I suppose.

Get back into bed and get out the other side FGS

Father: RAF

Mother: RAF then Nurse

Maternal Grandfather: Shephard
Maternal Grandmother: Housewife

Maternal Grandfather: Game Keeper
Maternal Grandmother: Housewife

Great Maternal Grandfather Farrier
Great Maternal Grandmother: Laundress

Great Maternal Grandfather Estate worker
Great Maternal Grandmother: Laundress

Great Maternal Grandfather Crofter
Great Maternal Grandmother: Crofter

Great Maternal Grandfather Crofter
Great Maternal Grandmother: Crofter

Paternal Grandfather: Butcher
Paternal Grandmother: Cake-maker

Great Paternal Grandfather: Farmer
Great Paternal Grandmother: Milkmaid

Great Paternal Grandfather: Farmer
Great Paternal Grandmother: Farmer Wife

Great Paternal Grandfather: Soldier
Great Paternal Grandmother: Hat maker

Great Paternal Grandfather: Soldier
Great Paternal Grandmother: Nurse

Brothers

RAF
RAF
Environmental Scientist
Policeman

Myself Nanny

DS Electrical Engineer

DGD Childminder

Get back into bed and get out the other side FGS

I know, I'm a grumpy old mare

But please, people -- if you absolutely MUST list what your grandparents did for a living, leave your own occupation out. These threads are searchable and live forever, and (although I'm sure the OP is on the level) not everyone out there is cyberland is, OK?

But please, people -- if you absolutely MUST list what your grandparents did for a living, leave your own occupation out. These threads are searchable and live forever, and (although I'm sure the OP is on the level) not everyone out there is cyberland is, OK?

You are right. They can't say that they weren't warned

My paternal granda was a spy!!

Miners, market traders then I was a teacher (now retired)