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?

Pat. GGF framework knitter
Pat.GGM lace finishet

Mat. GGF master butcher
Mat.GGM ladies' glove maker

Pat.GF worked on railway .. stoker
Pat. GM 'ale house' singer

Mat. GF malt house worker
Mat.GM domestic cleaner and then later a Home Help for local council

Me social historian and adult ed

Lace finisher

Mat grandfather - small time farmer, then coalminer
Mat grandmother - in service when younger

Pat grandparents - farmers, grandmother ran village shop too

father - chef
mother- bookkeeper

me - doctor

Paternal grandad Bookie
Paternal gran SAHM

Maternal grandad WW2 soldier and then wireless / radio engineer
Maternal gran Maid and foster carer

eastmids Social historian , fab job !

Mat GGM: don't know either, probably both housewives
Mat GGF: both coal miners
Mat GM: housewife
Mat GF: coal miner

One set of paternal great grand parents were post master and post mistress.

Other paternal set ggm was a housewife and ggf was a soldier and engineer.

Pat gm was a teacher
Pat gf was some kind of designer/engineer he helped design the wings for the vulcan bomber and later became a physics/maths teacher

I'm a SAHM with a massive love of science!

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Yes it's wonderful. Especially threads like this. Everyone should record their histories, it helps us understand who,what,where etc. If nothing else get relatives to write names and events on the back of their photos. Saves a guessing game later.
As to jobs, a great aunt was a chocolate box maker ..I always thought this sounded quite glamorous until I realised she was a home worker simply sticking the boxes together with horse glue

They were both civil servants

GGFs: One was a Wood Turner & 3 were Coal Miners
GGMs: All 'wife of the head of the household' on census, one was a housemaid before marriage

GFs: Coal Miner & ambulance driver
GMs: Home help & nurse

DF: Surveyor
DM: Librarian

Me: Scientist

If nothing else get relatives to write names and events on the back of their photos

This! With bells on! And don't just put "grandma". It's a fair bet a woman in a pic is someone's grandma but... whose?

Oh, such a wonderful thread! I've really enjoyed it, so interested. For me looking back through my family it's so interesting to see where the poverty, then the fall of communism/Soviet Union, joining of EU etc has taken my family.

As far back on both sides as we know everyone was a farm labourer

Then grandfather paternal - Baker
Grandmother paternal - Farm Worker

Grandfather Maternal - Metal Worker
Grandmother Maternal - Seamstress

Dad - Ships Captain

Mum - Nurse

Me, my brother and my sister are an engineer, doctor and accountant and none of us now live in our home country.

It's completely amazing the opportunities we have had to study and travel that even my parents didn't have.

Maternal Grandfather - no idea - they were divorced & I never met him
Maternal Grandmother - seamstress in a lingerie factory

Paternal Grandfather - shop steward in a cigarette factory
Maternal Grandfather - cigarette factory worker till married then housewife

Paternal Great-Grandfather (on paternal grandfather's side) - pharmacist

Maternal Great-Grandmother (on maternal grandmother's side) - midwife

No idea about any of the others, which is awful really!

Maternal GF - station master for most of his years then worked in insurance
Maternal GM - shop assistant (clothes)
Paternal GF - in the navy then worked doing something to do with a radio mast
Paternal GM - SAHM then accounts assistant when older

Not sure about great grandparents, but I think maternal great grandfather was a journalist for a local newspaper.

Me - office monkey at big multinational.

oops the second Maternal Grandfather is supposed to be my Paternal Grandmother!

The few that I know about are:

Maternal GGM: wartime nurse, GGF was a doctor
GF a teacher, GM social worker

Paternal GM: nowt, not even a good mother never worked.
GF owned a construction company.

Best thread in a while.....it made me look at some of my paternal GF private photos....he was a press photographer in the thirties, there are some of Mary of Teck (my mum always called her May of Teck), I think she was the grandmother of our Queen? Taken just after the abducation.

Maternal GF: Miner
Maternal GM: Secretary for the coal board

Paternal GF: Farmer
Paternal GM: Farmer's wife/ housewife (ie all the housework plus a fair amount of work on the farm. She could drive a tractor like a boss)

My parents were the first generation not to be miners and farmers.

I am a project coordinator. The project I coordinate is agriculture related though so not too dissimilar!

I only know about one GGP - he was a policeman.

Paternal:
GM was a nurse then SAHM
GF was an RAF engineer

Maternal:
Both kind of farmers/self-sufficient (from the Caribbean, different rules). They were both illiterate and barely spoke English

Oh, I'm an accountant, btw

Maternal gf RAF then civil service, gm civil service
Paternal gf physio, gm assistant to gf and sahm

Dad civil service
Mum childminder then civil service

Me banking software.

Both my grandmothers were cleaners and had gone into service young before they married. But once married and had children stopped, then started doing bits of cleaning when the kids were older. Nothing like a 'career' and i don't think they would have described themselves as 'cleaners'. Just like i have had many various jobs before marriage and dc and now i don't do anything, but i wouldn't describe myself as a cleaner/barmaid/admin monkey etc. I am not sure if i will ever go to work again but if i do i doubt it will be a 'career' type job or anything meaningful enough to have a title. So in that respect i am exactly like my grandmothers.

My Mum however worked from 15 in offices and all thru my childhood and still works as a director of a company.

MGM - nurse
MGF - engineer

PGF - cartographer for the mod
PGM - geography teacher

Oh and me, I'm the devil a.k.a a social worker

Pat GF: Dispensing Chemist
Pat GM: Railway clerk then worked in husband's shop

Mat GF: RAF (mechanic) then caretaker in office building
Mat GM: secretary in fire service then housewife

Dad: meteorologist
Mum: proof reader

Me: Info governance in a local authority

GGparents: Docker/warehouseman, the other side Railways (both then one became a pub landlord). GGMs no idea, suspect didn't work outside the home.

Paternal Grandmother: SAHM
Paternal Grandfather: Police and Textiles at separate times

Maternal Grandmother: Worked in a bakery
Maternal Grandfather: He worked for the army and then plastering

All in their 70s or would be if they were all alive, PD is sadly not with us.