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?

Granny - started off as maid, rose to Head Cook. Not sure of story but she was made to go earn age 14, while brothers had paid-for school.
Grandad - gardener, later an admin job.

Their parents - farming types, though looks like Granny's may have owned land, not just been tenants like Granddad's. Ditto at least 6 more generations.

Gran and Granpa - rural smallholding, so mostly farming but some years running a gas station and general store. Gran never really learned to write.
Their parents: peasant farmers in Eastern Europe/ Russia, ditto several more generations.

My parents: no farming, both only ones in their families to go to uni. Academic types until dad joined a multinational company.

Shows the huge reduction in proportion of the population who worked in food production over the last 100 years.

Paternal Great-grandparents: Seamstress and stonemason, not sure about GGF, GGM was a jeweller.

Maternal Great-grandparents: Doctor & housewife, Engineer and secretary.

Paternal grandparents: artist, and career army.

Maternal grandparents: engineer and doctor

Grandfathers - doctor and vicar
Grandmothers - teacher and homemaker
Parents - civil servant and health visitor
Me - lecturer

Dad's side:

Great grandparents: Jewish refugees from the pogroms in the Russian empire in 1905. Tailor & Seamstress.

Grandad was also a Tailor after leaving school at 13, later served in WW2. Grandma was a Maths teacher.

Dad is a computer programmer.

I work in forecasting/strategy.

Mum's side:

Great grandparents...I think they were farmers on at least one side!

Granny - manageress of a train station, then a SAHM
Grandad: Estate agent

Mum: Social worker

Paternal grandfather - coalminer
maternal grandfather - butcher

One grandmother was a cleaner and the other a seamstress.

I'm a teacher. The interesting thing to me is that, although the jobs still exist, the number of people in domestic service has fallen - so many people were maids etc in the past. Also interesting to see how the jobs for women have broadened.

Paternal grandmother - Housewife ("always had a baby in one hand and a book in the other")
Paternal grandfather - coal miner (died aged 40 of silicosis)
Maternal grandmother - House keeper and seamstress
Maternal grandfather - Radio repairer ("only got paid when there were radios to mend")
Father - Accountant (without formal qualifications)
Mother - Shorthand typist, housewife, later VDU operator
Me - IT developer/business analyst
DH - Software engineer

Maternal grandfather - farmer
Maternal grandmother - farmers wife
Paternal grandfather - in the raf
Paternal grandmother - worked in a clothing factory.

Im a nursery nurse.

Pgf political agent
Pgm art teacher and bookkeeper
Pggf 1travelling salesman
Pggm1 hotel chambermaid (who had one night stand with pggf resulting in illegitimate pgf born in workhouse lol)

Pggf2 headmaster of blind school
Pggm2 don't know

Mgf mechanic
Mum housewife
Mggf (official ie married and named on birth certificate) travelling salesman but real mggf blacksmith
Mggf housekeeper to said blacksmith (left her abusive husband in the 1890s and produced Mgf several years later)

I'm a civil servant

GGF: Tyne Pilot
GGF: marine engineer
(Wives both house wives)

GGF: tanner (widower, so no idea about GGM)
GGF: pub landlord
GGM: coal merchant (ran the operation, not delivering it!!)

GF: marine engineer
GM: Wren (then at home with family)

GF: police officer
GM: at home, then working in a factory once widowed).

My Maternal Grandmother worked in a private school with boarders and non boarders,she looked after the children that were boarders.
My Maternal Grandfather was a carpenter.

My Paternal Grandfather was in the army and served in the first and second world war.
My Paternal Grandmother worked in a factory,whilst the war was going on she made parachutes for our troops.

I honestly don't know about my Great grandparents they had passed many years before I was born.

Me I worked with children.

Paternal grandparents he/she: chauffeur/mechanic "in service" to a private household/worked in a commercial laundry (after hub died of TB at 42, pre WWII)

Maternal he/she: Tailor (made to measure menswear)/seamstress & book-keeper in hub's workshop.

Paternal gf: electrician
Paternal gm: housewife but previously worked in a shop
Maternal gf: policeman
Maternal gm: office work

Maternal ggf: bus driver, don't know about the others.

Dad: teacher
Mum: teaching assistant

Me teacher

Great grandad was a farmer
Great grandma was a farmers wife
Grandad was a Motorbike racer, motorbike mechanic and a soldier
Grandma was a journalist (first female newspaper journalist on her paper)
Dad was an accountant and motorbike mechanic
Mum has been a lot of things mostly typist/receptionist type roles
I work in a call centre

Great grandfather was a 'pure man' in Bermondsey. Does anyone know what that means?
No wonder my grandmother became such a snob...

Maternal Grandparents:
Grandmother - SAHM
Grandfather - Maintenance Man

Paternal Grandparents:
Grandmother - SAHM
Grandfather - Civil Engineer

Maternal grandfather; army officer
Maternal grandmother; office manager (or whatever they called it back then) for premium bonds
Paternal grandfather; taxi driver
Paternal grandmother; district nurse

Mat. Great grandparents, grandmothers side had grocers shops, and ran a boarding house in Morecambe
Other side, army officer and housewife
Pat great grandparents, grandfathers side worked in mills, came over from
Ireland before First World War, other side doctor and housewife

I work in the NHS.

Me lots of things, finally a nurse.
Mother, nurse
Maternal grandmother, nurse
Great maternal grandmother, lay nurse. The woman you fetched to help you give birth prior to regulated nursing.

I am wondering if any of my DDs will be a nurse!

Also, my dad was a welder and after many years of being a sahm my mum worked for HMRC.

Great grandfather was a 'pure man' in Bermondsey. Does anyone know what that means?

Is it collecting human wee? Or all human waste? Wh iffy either way

I remember my maternal grandma worked in a book shop for a while, but I think it was her only job.

Maternal granddad fixed things, not sure if he made money out of it- he was also mentally ill so was in and out of hospital so didn't work much if it all.

Paternal granddad- I don't think he worked a day in his life. He was a single dad for many years.

Paternal grandma- No idea

I know nothing about the great grandparents, except one lost a leg in the war and I remember meeting him once.

I feel quite sad now that I don't know more. Was never close to any of my grandparents and only met one great grandparent once. Will have to ask my mum and auntie.

dog shit Just5minswithdacre, for the leather tanning business.

One of my grandfathers was a carpenter, the other was a printer. One grandmother was a secretary, the other a housewife.

One great grandfather was an omnibus driver and prior to that he drove a horse drawn coach. My great grandmother was a servant and then a shop girl.

Oh okay. Even smellier I suppose you stop smelling it after a while.

Maternal grandfather: tax inspector
Maternal grandmother: civil servant ( had to give up work when married)

Paternal grandfather: teacher
Paternal grandmother: secretary

I'm a book keeper and Dh is an accountant

According to this, a pure gatherer is a dog shit collector. To use it in leather tanning.

I would say it's even worse than night soil collector (human waste collector), as at least the night soil was put out in containers. But on the other hand, surely we have pure gatherers today?