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Got to go now the dreaded housework calls Bye June xx.

Nolls i know re the hard work but i find the times so interesting and a lot of my an d other peoples familys died young but it,s the values fashions everything Oh dear are we still friends ? jUNE XX

Hi June My maternal g/father was an engineer what kind I don't know but it sounds good. My dad's father worked in the docks until a crane fell on him leaving him with horrific head injuries for which he was paid £1000 in compensation that would be in the 1940's so don't know what it would be worth now and I don't really think you would want to live then would you too much hard work I would think Nolls

I knew nil re my mums side due to her leavin when i was 2 so i have found out what a big Irish family i have June ..

Thats where Ifound my first reallie June when I started my hobby.

I know my GGreatfather was working at the docks at Trafford Park . He fell off the dock in between the ship and dock and was crushed to dealth my GGrandmother was pregnant at the time. I remember my Gran telling me that when i was little . I have found the newspaper report and inquest papers for it.

Hayley my family on my mothers side i found worked on the docks in Liverpool and some of the books i read give you some idea how it was a very hard life like a lot of occupations June ..

Those people were very colourful characters there boats and every day things were painted so brightly and they worked so hard how exciting to have ancestors like that June .

But on my Mums side they was canal or waterman ... ( water ever that was lol )

OOH Shades of Alice in Wonderland June x

Mine on my Dads side was Hatters or mill workers.

Thank you to everyone who contributed all the occupations are so varied and interesting a lot of course of a bygone age wish i had lived in those times June xx.

Maternal Grandparents: Nanna: Nanny, bar maid / hotel staff (worked on bar and cleaning in the hotel) Granddad: Carprnter - Patten maker (made pattens for mine machinary, later did piece work in wood) [Never did national service as stone deaf in one ear from birth) Paternal Grandparents: Nanny: Nanny (from about 14, early WW2), Army girl (never said what but I know she served in north of England somewhere), Buffet Hand (not bad given she was barried before she turned 24) Grandpa: Above ground collery worker, Army (?egypt?), Tire Fitter.

Hello all , My Nan was in the ats during the war and at the potsdam conferance( we where never told anything about her time away in the war. But was told that she entered Germany with the americans. We are trying to find out her Army recs) My Gramp was the fire section ( crew) for the dambusters. Again not a lot of info known but am tracing this. Needless to say i am very proud of them. And just wish they were here for me to tell them. Bubbles

My paternal great grandfather was a Stonemason as was his son, my great uncle, and I learned just this week that he worked on the Manor owned by the Rothchilds in Waddesdon?, Bucks. Another son, my grandfather, was a Carpenter and Joiner, and made the coffins for the village he lived in, Gawcott in Bucks. My maternal grandfather looked after the horses that pulled the fire engine and also boarded and cared for local people's dogs and other pets.

Hi June My Paternal Grandparents were theatrical stage actors. G/GG/GGGfathers were Foyboatmen. All the womenfolk were fish curers, or filleters,very hard work. Mau

Hi June, Maternal grandad worked in shipyard, Maternal grandma brought up 12 kids !! Paternal grandad fireman and tannery worker Paternal grandma poet !!!! Caz xxxx

June Born under the sign of Aries And that is what I am, But I can say here in all honesty That I am not a -- thingy. Jeff lol

Hi Tina Like the sound of the Whisky bit June ..

Paternal grandmother - proprietor of Lockes Whiskey Distillery, Killbeggan, Co. Westmeath. Paternal Grandfather - Royal Fusiliers Maternal Grandmother - proprieter of the village shop Maternal Grandfather, Safety Officer - last project was the building of the Bradwell-on-Sea Nuclear Power Station Tina x