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?

One of Great great Grandfathers was a Gentleman - but gambled away all the money

Grandfathers - railway worker, Scientist. Neither fought in the war because they were essential workers.
Grandmothers - librarian, Cambridge academic.

Paternal gf:army officer
paternal gm; army wife (daughter of colonial tea planters)

Maternal gm; pharmacist assistant
maternal gf; don't want to say as too identifying ut was very well known (and not in a good way)

Me - lawyer

My great-grandparents:

Maternal/Maternal:
Grandmother - SAHM
Grandfather - Farmer

Maternal/Paternal:
Grandmother - SAHM
Grandfather - Steelworker

Paternal/Maternal:
Grandmother - Owned a boarding house, landlady, I guess
Grandfather - Unknown. He was frequently absent from his family.

Paternal/Paternal:
Grandmother - SAHM
Grandfather - Pharmacist/Pharmacy Owner

My mom was a SAHM, my father was a police officer, I'm an Administrative Law Judge.

maternal gf; don't want to say as too identifying ut was very well known (and not in a good way)

Oh, but now I really want to know!

MGM - hat maker then SAHM
MGF - insurance clerk
MGGF - master builder
Don't know about my Nans dad, but I do know that his dad was a farmer in Germany

PGM - SAH'M' (mum in quotes as she was crap she was a raging hyperchondriac her health was delicate)
PGF - accounts clerk for a typewriter manufacturer

Mum - teacher
Dad - engineer

Me - accountant

My mother's family were almost all crofters and fishermen, going back many generations. There was the occasional one who went off to join the navy.
My father's family were soldiers, also going back many generations. When my dad left the army he was a coalman, seaweed cutter and finally sub-postmaster.
I'm a haberdasher. I also work a croft, but I'm not really a farmer by nature.

Maternal GM: Dressmaker
Maternal GF: Career soldier

Paternal GM: SAHM until kids grew up, then school dinner lady
Paternal GF: Career soldier

I work in publishing, although my DB carried on the army tradition!

My family were/are farmers. On both sides, my grandparents farm has been in the family for 200 years. My uncle and cousin run it now.
My parents were both accountants and I'm a pharmacy technician

My maternal grandfather was a farmer, and then later on he was an electrician. Not entirely sure what my grandmother did (obviously helped with the farming when they were farmers) but I know she had an affair with her boss which was a huge scandal in rural Lapland. Their parents would have been farmers too.

Actually have no idea about my paternal grandparents, my dad didn't talk about his dad much, just that he was a drunkard and abusive, and I don't recall any mention of my grandmother working.

Sorry Steff!

Oh and my mum has been a carer for the elderly most of her working life and now she teaches in a prison. Sad was a Baptist minister and now is a prison chaplain.

I don't have a profession but right now I work for the Red Cross.

Dad not Sad!

PGM - Tinker
PGF - Tailor
MGF - Soldier
MGM - Spy

Me - Finance

Maternal GM: ballet teacher
Maternal GF: bank clerk

Paternal GM: housewife
Paternal GF: GP

Paternal GF: Self employed printer in Eastern Europe before the War, in a town not far from the German border. One night he found a German chap dead drunk in the rain outside his home and business, and took him in to sleep it off. In his pocket he found a Nazi party membership card, which allowed him to forge cards for himself and my father. He died just before the Germans arrived but that is how my father escaped and made his way here. His father was a rabbi.

Maternal GF was a judge. Their wives were I imagine what is here called SAHM.

Mat GF Miner/ Merchant Navy
Mat GM Worked in Jam factory then was painter and decorator

Pat GF Publican
Pat GM SAHM (12 children)

Mat GGF1 Lead Miner then chauffeur
Mat GGG1 Barmaid then SAHM (10 children)

Mat GGF2 Miner (died in pit accident)
Mat GGG2 Matriarch and absolute evil witch apparently (8 children)

Pat GGF1 Farmer
Pat GGM1 Farmer's wife

PatGGF2 Navvy
PatGGM2 Shoemaker

M GM Cotton mill worker, then hairdresser
M GF Engineer

P GM Nurse during WW2, then housewife and mother to 7
P GF Soldier during WW2 then worked in a glass factory

M Headteacher
F Headteacher

Me Teacher!

Mgf- Train driver
Mgm-Sahm

Pgf- miner
Pgm-Sahm

No idea about great grandparents.

Both my grandmothers were teachers but gave up once they married. My paternal grandmother later retrained as a Relate counsellor - which is where she met my Mum!

My maternal grandpa was also a teacher (English) and my paternal grandpa was an engineer.

My mum has had a range of jobs, including a stint at teaching and the last decade or so pre-retirement as a careers adviser. My dad does some kind of computer-related admin.

I'm a doctor, my younger sister is a translator.

MGF - don't know as we don't know who he was
MGM - shop assistant then cleaner

PGF - soldier then labourer
PGM - barmaid then housewife

MGGF - railway Porter then railway guard then driver
MGGM - housekeeper then housewife

PGGF - baked potato seller, labourer, railway worker
PGGM - housewife

Me - communications (for a transport company so there's some continuity there I guess!)

PGM Fruit / veg picker and other seasonal agricultural work / worked in service until marriage
PGF. Builder/ grave digger

MGM Hairdresser then SAHM/ horticultural worker
MGF Merchant seaman then a nurse for "the mentally subnormal"

MGGF railway worker

Maternal grandfather and grandmother Dairy farmers

Paternal grandfather Labourer
Paternal grandmother Telephonist

Paternal great grandfathers. 1 was a miner The other, we think was a farmer though both him and his wife died young and we know she was illiterate. ( X on grandfather's birth certificate)

Maternal great grandparents, difficult to tell. One was a second son of an aristocratic family who had emigrated to NZ and did whatever the second sons did in the colonies... That side of the family is very posh with Royal connections. The other, I have no idea, though I suspect he may have been a gum digger

My parents, Health inspector and housewife

I work in educational technologies in higher education

No clue about Great Grandparents.
My Maternal Grandfather was a bank manager
My Maternal Grandmother didn't work although she was a concert pianist until she married my Grandfather and then gave piano lessons for 'pin' money.

My mother was in the army and then was a music teacher.

My Paternal Grandfather was a builder and then a lecturer.
To my knowledge my Paternal grandmother never worked.

My Father is an actor.

I was a teacher until it nealry pushed me over the edge and I left to preserve my sanity.

Paternal Grandfather - Labourer
Paternal Grandmother - house wife mother to 7 and leading light in Salvation Army

Maternal Grandmother - maid of all work in a vicarage until marriage
Ran a soup kitchen during the Depression
Cook in charge at Pit Head Canteen
Maternal Grandfather - miner and a wonderful man (looked after me when I was little as he retired early with silicosis)
Maternal Great Grandmother - cook/cleaner/mother's help on a farm
Maternal Great Grandfather - farm labourer

Mother (could have gone to Grammar school but gave up the chance. To her younger sister)
Milkmaid, actually carried milk on those yokes across her shoulders
In service to titled family, back from the Raj
Munitions factory
Housewife and Mother
Part time shop worker
Cook in charge at pit head canteen, just like her Mam before her

Father jack of all trades...drink problem 😔
Had a small holding which he loved and would have had a happier life if he could have made a living from it

Me....worked in a 'boutique at 13, Tax Officer, Librarian, Youth Worker, ChildMinder
Just like my dad, I wish I could live a self-sufficient life. Gardening and Nature are my passions

Thank you so much for this thread, I have found it very interesting reading everyone's stories.
I have been meaning to write out my memories of my family for my children and grand-children and this has inspired me to. Get the old photo albums out and make a start.

I do think we are influenced by those who went before us and that it is social history that tells the important stories.

Maternal Grandfather: Moulder in foundry
Maternal Grandmother: In service

Paternal Grandfather: Pattern maker in foundry
Paternal Grandmother: Shop worker

Great Maternal Grandfather: Puddler (foreman) in foundry
Great Maternal Grandmother: ??

Great Paternal Grandfather: Shopkeeper
Great Paternal Grandmother: In service

DM: Trained as a dressmaker/tailoress - in Fire Service throughout WW2
DF: Fireman - then Fire Prevention Officer

Me: Librarian