General Chat

Got to go now house work calls June x

Fine ta now off for me cuppa x

Good Morin Love actually just got out of my jamies hope all is well at your abode June xx

Morning June your up bright an early!!

Lovely people thank you once again all these interesting jobs keep em comin June xx

Hi June My mums dad was a Carpenter/French pollisher - l have a beautiful chair he made:o) The poet John Bentjamin apparently mentioned him in one of his poems. Grandfather worked for John B's son. Mums mum was a barmaid and then a housewife. My dads dad was an artist and war correspondent/artist, don't know about his first wife. Off't to bed now - nite nite:o) jude sarf wales :o)

My paternal grandfather was a schoolmaster.......my maternal grandfather was a wholesale confectioner. Reg

My paternal grandfather was a Shipwright, as were the 3 (at least) generations before him, all the boys in the family were. He had an accident at work where he damaged some ribs and after that he worked on building sites until they moved to Rayleigh in Essex and took over a sub post-office (Brockett's Stores, which someone on here remembered once!). Maternal grandfather was an Engine Driver on the GNER working out of Stratford (east London). All his in-laws and their parents and grandparents worked on the railway too. My 3 x gt grandfather is listed as an Engine Driver in 1861. Paternal grandmother didn't work, except in the sub post office. Her father was a master butcher, so she didn't 'need' to work. Maternal grandmother was a maid at first, then worked at a printer's checking foreign banknotes until her marriage in 1921. Maz. XX

Maternal grandfather: worked his way up from clerk to become Leicester City Transport Manager (between the wars, when they still had trams). His father was a grocer and his mother was a shoe binder. Maternal grandmother: hosiery machinist. Her father was a butcher, and her mother was a barmaid. Paternal grandfather: hospital orderly (in Australia). His father was a labourer. Paternal grandmother: don't know. Her father worked as a butcher, plumber, coalman and labourer at various times. Her mother worked as a spinner from the age of 10 until she got married.

My Maternal Grandfather born 1910 worked in a factory, something to do with electic. My Paternal Grandfather born 1978 worked in the Motor Industry along with his Brother, Gt Uncle Albert who was Pioneer of the Japanese Motor Industry. Jenny.

Hi In have Engine drivers, Shoemakers ,Carmen,crane workers, Carpenters and Labourers. A mixture really. Julie

Sue my grandad was english but he fought in WW1 for a Canadian regiment was wounded in france shrapnel and rec a canadian pension till the day he died .. June xx

June My Grandma went to Canada in 1909, married my Canadian born Grandad in 1919 when he returned from England after fighting in the C.E.F. in WW1 and they had my Dad (the eldest of 5) in 1921. My Dad came over to England as a soldier in WW2, met & married my English Mum and stayed here. Sue xx

Once again thank you such a lot of different jobs i bet there are so many stories to tell and Sue Langley Vale my Gran went out to Canada in 1913 and was married there had 4 children my dad was one of them June xx.

Paternal grandfather: his marriage cert states 'postman', but I have found no record of him in London Postal Workers Archives, so I'll go along with the 'builders labourer' which is on my father's birth cert. Paternal grandmother: shop assistant somewhere at Oxford Circus, then went down the road to work at Selfridges, Oxford Street in the haberdashery dept. Maternal grandfather: coal miner. Maternal grandmother: worked in a jam factory, and later as a shop assistant.

Paternal grandfather - corporation labourer (gravedigger) Maternal grandfather - steward on board liners (including Olympic) but he had to retire early because of ill-health. One grandmother worked as a tram conductor during WW1, the other earned as much as she could taking in washing etc.

Just had a fascinating conversation for the first time with a cousin of my dad's - she is 87 - and told me loads about my stonemason grandfather and the family. Am bubbling over with it all! Liz

One was an engine driver ( supposedly drove the Flying Scotsman but need poof of that) - the other wandered from job to job caretaking, off jobs etc. neither grandma worked. Kate

My paternal grandad was a shoemaker (like his father) until WW1 when he joined the Lifeguards and lost the top of his thumb and nail at the Battle of the Somme. After the war he stayed in London and joined the Police although from what I can tell his work was mainly traffic control. My paternal grandma worked as a housemaid for a family in Mayfair until she got married and then became a housewife and mum to my dad. My maternal grandad was a writer until WW1 when he joined the Royal Engineers and later the Royal Flying Corps, he went back in during WW2 aged nearly 50 and became a Colonel. Between the wars and after he was a Company Accountant. My maternal grandma worked in a Drapers Shop and was a dressmaker. Carolyn

My maternal grandfather worked for London Transport (London Omnibus), firstly as a bus conductor and retiring as an inspector. Interestingly, since doing my tree I have found that his father and grandfather were both house painters/decorators, which explains my Grandad's obsession with perfect paint finishes and preparation. I do wonder why he didn't follow in their footsteps though. My maternal grandmother was a dressmaker. Her father and grandfather were both tailors and, as far back as I have traced so far, all males were in the textile industry and the earliest were weavers. My paternal grandfather worked for the Canadian Post Office, ending as a Postmaster just before his death. I don't know what my paternal grandmother's occupation was before she married, but her parents were farmers so I assume she worked on the farm. Her parents emigrated from Monmouthshire, where her father worked for Great Western Railway, to Canada, where he homesteaded and became a farmer. It's hard to imagine the hardships they went through in the early 20th Century. My G Grandmother had been brought up in a middle class family in Worcestershire where her father had his own business and then for her to endure a ship's passage to Canada with 3 young children (G Grandfather had emigrated 2 years earlier) is amazing. Then to have to live in the wilds of Saskatchewan, Canada in little more than a log cabin ekeing out an existance from the land. I think she is the ancestor that I have most sympathy and admiration for and I would love to have met her. Sue xx