What did your grandparents do?

**tomcat** · 21-08-2020, 07:46 AM

mine:

Maternal grandfather: engineer for municipal tram line
Maternal grandmother: supervising nurse
Paternal grandfather: floor manager in a factory
Paternal grandmother (Nonna): housewife

**bowie** · 21-08-2020, 07:50 AM

Maternal grandfather: sailor, cook on merchant vessel (great sea stories)
Maternal grandmother: waitress
Paternal grandfather: strip coal miner (victim of black lung)
Paternal grandmother: housewife

**AntRobertson** · 21-08-2020, 07:52 AM

Maternal grandfather: military
Maternal grandmother: housewife
Paternal grandfather: transport Co. and then farmer
Maternal grandmother (Nanna): housewife & farmer

**Barty** · 21-08-2020, 08:16 AM

Maternal grandfather: Fought in WW1 and returned to NZ and became a farmer
Maternal grandmother: Housewife/farmer
Paternal grandfather: Fought in WW1 and returned to NZ and became a farmer
Paternal grandmother: housewife

Both grandfathers fought in WW1, on returning to NZ their numbers were entered into a ballot where their names were drawn. Through the ballot they both were awarded plots of land of about 100 acres each in the Whakatane district. Both plots were across the road from each other.

**AntRobertson** · 21-08-2020, 08:21 AM

Originally Posted by Barty

Whakatane district

That's where my family originates from also.

**kmart** · 21-08-2020, 08:41 AM

Maternal grandfather: Engineer.
Maternal grandmother: Housewife & part-time Textile work.
Paternal grandfather: Fitter / Turner & Cabinet Maker. (2 occupations quite common back then).
Paternal grandmother: Housewife.

**Barty** · 21-08-2020, 08:50 AM

Why does everyone have two maternal grandmothers??? I clearly come from an oddball family.

**AntRobertson** · 21-08-2020, 08:52 AM

Hahaha oops... I cut 'n pasted from tom's, copied the error over.

**katie23** · 21-08-2020, 09:11 AM

Both grandpas: farmer/ fisherman

Both grandmas: housewife/ farmer

**bsnub** · 21-08-2020, 09:14 AM

Maternal grandfather: Fishermen
Maternal grandmother: United States Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve)/Housewife
Paternal grandfather: Tavern/Pub owner and landlord
Paternal grandmother: Housewife (wheelchair bound due to contracting polio)

**Saint Willy** · 21-08-2020, 09:14 AM

Airman in Australian Airforce
Owned a Vineyard

Engineer in Irish Army
Housewife

**tomcat** · 21-08-2020, 09:16 AM

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

I cut 'n pasted from tom's

...oops...error corrected...

**AntRobertson** · 21-08-2020, 09:19 AM

Originally Posted by tomcat

...oops...error corrected...

Damn it! I can't correct mine so now I look like some kind of idiot from a weird family*

*That's a joke before the obvious suspects start stating the obvious.

**panama hat** · 21-08-2020, 09:24 AM

Originally Posted by Barty

Whakatane district

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

That's where my family originates from also.

Which paddock?

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

I look like some kind of idiot from a weird family*

Oh dear . . .

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Maternal grandfather: Soldier in the Legion
Maternal grandmother: Egg, dairy and cheese seller on a cart
Paternal grandfather: Diplomat (yes, yea . . . a family thing)
Paternal grandmother: Seamstress and then housewife

**AntRobertson** · 21-08-2020, 09:29 AM

Originally Posted by panama hat

Oh dear . . .

*That's a joke before the obvious suspects start stating the obvious.

Oi!

**Saint Willy** · 21-08-2020, 09:29 AM

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

I look like some kind of idiot
.

I guess so

**AntRobertson** · 21-08-2020, 09:32 AM

Double oi!

**tomcat** · 21-08-2020, 09:37 AM

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Maternal grandfather: military
Maternal grandmother: housewife
Paternal grandfather: transport Co. and then farmer
Paternal grandmother (Nanna): housewife & farmer

...there you go...now you're just like the rest of us...

**docmartin** · 21-08-2020, 09:44 AM

Maternal grandfather: professional poodle taunter
Maternal grandmother: quarry
Paternal grandfather: rocket scientist
Paternal grandmother: astronaut

**Shutree** · 21-08-2020, 10:27 AM

Paternal Grandfather: Print worker (Fleet Street)

Maternal Grandfather: Coal miner (South Wales)

Grandmothers: Housewives. (They didn't have homemakers back then.)

**Edmond** · 21-08-2020, 10:29 AM

Army
Textiles

Supermarkets
Admin office for supermarkets.

**AntRobertson** · 21-08-2020, 10:32 AM

Originally Posted by Edmond

Supermarkets
Admin office for supermarkets.

...

They meet at the pub then?

**Edmond** · 21-08-2020, 10:35 AM

Don't know, 3 of the above passed before I was born.

Supermarkets were passed onto Edmond Snr and brothers.

**sabang** · 21-08-2020, 10:38 AM

Paternal Grandad- jewellery manufacturer. Went bust, then worked at Cadbury for the rest of his working life. Alcoholic, embittered, jewish, wife beater- his kids hated him unfortunately.
Grandmum- housewife
Maternal Grandad- JCB operator. Came to England from Ireland during WW2, basically clearing out bomb sites. Taught himself to read and write. Much loved and respected alcoholic.
Grandmum- housewife, & prolific breeder

**VocalNeal** · 21-08-2020, 10:40 AM

Paternal grandfather Dentist
Grandmother former nurse

Maternal GF Not mentioned in polite conversation
Maternal GM Ran a coach business.

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