FabSwingers.com forum: What trade were your ancestors

By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

Mine were hat makers

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By *TG3Man
over a year ago

Dorchester

Haberdashers

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By *ickshawedCouple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

Poverty stricken refugees

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By *egoMan
over a year ago

Preston

Missionaries and farmers.

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By *reyToTheFairiesWoman
over a year ago

Carlisle usually

Probably whores

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By *rder66Man
over a year ago

Tatooine

The hunting and gathering trade.

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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

Assuming this is serious, I know.

Equestrians

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Furthest back we've been on on my dad's side where plantation owners and mums has something to do with working on the Docks.

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

Maternal grandfather was in the Merchant Navy.

Maternal grandmother did laundry and worked in a pie and mash shop.

Paternal grandmother was from a family who owned warehouses and property.

No idea about my Paternal grandfather's family.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Farmers on my Mum's side.

My Dad's side came from Ireland to work on the Railways

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

Farmers and Publicans

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Stone masons

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

From the Isle of Mull originally

So farmers I guess

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By *tylebender03Man
over a year ago

Manchester

Viking Warriors

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By *eavenscentitCouple
over a year ago

barnstaple

Carpenters, Mariners, Servants

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

Crooks in the main

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By *bi HaiveMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Cheeseville, Somerset

Wooly mammoth hunters.

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By *bi HaiveMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Cheeseville, Somerset

"Crooks in the main"

Lost count of the times I wished my great, great, great grandfather was a chicken thief.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Farmers. Pretty much all of them, so much so, we were apparently part of the highest caste in the system despite our religion not supposedly believing in them

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By *aughty Couple ABCCouple
over a year ago

West Bromwich

Maternal grandfather was a miner, as was my own father. Not sure about paternal grandparents, although I know my paternal grandfather was a soldier who was in a concentration camp. D

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By *asterR and slut mayaMan
over a year ago

Bradford

Good question I've no idea.

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork

Coopers

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By *ulieAndBeefCouple
over a year ago

Manchester-ish

One set of grandparents were stage magicians. Not sure further back than that.

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

As far back as I can reliably go they owned a good part of Cheshire.

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By *rayheresnowMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

Farm hands in Somerset

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By *amian300Man
over a year ago

dub city closer than you think not in uk

Cobblers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sicilian Mafia and pirates mostly.

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

"Crooks in the main

Lost count of the times I wished my great, great, great grandfather was a chicken thief.

No chicken thieves. One did steal a bullock, though

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By *ottom charlieMan
over a year ago

washington

"Mine were hat makers

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one of my ancestors was a big hole maker at the battle of the nile

where he and a lot of his make knocked bloody big holes in a lot of napoleon ships and sank the buggers,,

the guy he worked for was called nelson,,,

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By *iberius61Man
over a year ago

Pontefract

Great grandfather was in the army. If you watch dad's army he was in the same regiment as Corporal Jones, I have his campaign medals from the battle in the Sudan that featured as a flashback in one of the episodes where he fought the 'fuzzy wuzzies'. He was also in WWI

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By *hav02Man
over a year ago

Glasgow/London

Going back far enough, they just grunted, hunted meat, used stones for cutlery and wore animal skin for clothing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hunter gatherers at some point

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Architect on mams side, stone Mason on father's side both worked together ( unreal to find out),

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By *ehindHerEyesCouple
over a year ago

SomewhereOnlyWeKnow

Some of mine got sent to Australia

I'm currently trying to find out a little bit more about my family tbh

Tinder x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cattle thieves

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By *ixieAndHerKingCouple
over a year ago

Debauchery

My ancestors in my father’s side were Lighthouse Keepers. There’s a commemoration for one of them who dies in a storm at Portland Bill. No record of it, but some paper ancestry work done by a relative found a Highwayman from off of the 1600s..

Hades

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

Farmers

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By *elvet RopeMan
over a year ago

by the big field

one was a financial services specialist/loan shark for the local town

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By *r_PinkMan
over a year ago

london stratford

Mother was a stripper (in the 60s n 70s, now it would be classified as burlesque stripping)

Dad started out as a butcher then went on to drive and mind Arabs.

Dads family where refugees fleeing Communism. and mums family left Ireland when the potato famine happened and ended up working on the Liverpool docks and Navy

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

One Great Grandad was an jeweller and antique dealer.

Another was a dock yard labourer then later a time keeper on the railway.

Grandad 1's mother's family were fairground people.

Grandma 1's mother's family had a furniture shop, but were originally from Yorkshire and worked in woollen mills.

Grandad 2's Dad was a piano tuner and concert pianist. His mother didn't work.

Grandma 2's Dad is the jeweller above.

Both my Grandads worked in the financial services sector (Grandad 1 started in the Army though). My Dad worked in finance too. Grandma 1 worked PT in M&S. Grandma 2 was a kept woman. Mother has worked in a vast array of jobs, all mainly unsuccessfully.

We both work in education.

There's no pattern in our family!

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

Merchant navy, publicans and service

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By *atureFem4FunWoman
over a year ago

Petts Wood

My late father was in the armed forces and was killed in action when I was Six, his father and grandfather were also in the Navy and Army.

My late mother and her mother were both hat makers.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Farmers , labourers

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By *tsJustKateWoman
over a year ago

London

Mill Owners

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By *layful HarlequinMan
over a year ago

iver heath

Long line of army in mine.

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

Jute weavers & mechanical engineers (dads side )

Builder & nursery nurse (mums side )

Have traced dads side back to 1640 variuos trades around ship building and jute in the tay estuary

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By *an de LyonMan
over a year ago

welling

Builders of thorn bracken defences when the Norman’s came over hence our family name

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester

My grandparents used to own a lumber yard in Ireland.

It helps when you get good wood.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Farmers, gardeners, builders.

Now I'm intrigued to look further back than 1800s

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By *avexxMan
over a year ago

cheshire

gypsies ireland

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Thatchers

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By *rivateparts!Man
over a year ago

Walking down the only road I've ever known!

Miners

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Park keepers and later farmers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My mum's side were farmers and my dad's side were miners.

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By *mizhereMan
over a year ago

chinnor area

Grandfathers barber and Spirit Salesman -died an alcoholic

Great grandfathers shipyards and horse driven cab owner

Prior to that sheep farmers

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

As would be expected, the less gifted members took instructions from others whilst the more clever and independently minded ones worked for themselves in whatever was in vogue at the time; many generations later those traits are still very evident.

The cleverer ones even resemble their ancestors, morphologically: in size, build,facial feature, hair, look of resolve, etc

I recently saw a sepia photograph from almost 100 years ago of an ancestor; it was like looking at my cousin whose behaviour is identical, reportedly!

Very few went to prison, but some were in asylums and workhouses which were enormous institutions with large populations, then.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My grandfather was a very well respected gun dog trainer, he ever wrote a few books on the subject.

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By *ames-77Man
over a year ago

milton keynes

Coal miners

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Dads side - Builders

Mums side - Farming

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mothers side - coal miners

Fathers side - terrible gamblers. It's a long story.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lots of charwomen, labourers, agricultural workers.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Farmers, gardeners, builders.

Now I'm intrigued to look further back than 1800s

Oh you should! I love family history, sadly I've exhausted most of my family, my dad took over for me and has found out loads!

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

RAF and Professional Cricketers..

My great great grandfather and his brother both played an Ashes series for England against the Aussies

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By *ob and DeeWoman
over a year ago

crook

farmers.factory owner's.transport owner's.

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By *ob and DeeWoman
over a year ago

crook

my half cousin is an author.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

"Farmers, gardeners, builders.

Now I'm intrigued to look further back than 1800s

I've got back to the 1730s on my Dad's side. They are easy to trace, due to superior record keeping in the Netherlands. It's fun tracing the family tree, although can also be very emotional. Many of ancestors on that side come to an abrupt end circa 1943.

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By *abasaurus RexMan
over a year ago

Gloucestershire

One of them was a Clockmaker/horologist. Sadly not a famous one, but interesting none the less. Another was some sort of trader in equine goods.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

"Farmers, gardeners, builders.

Now I'm intrigued to look further back than 1800s

From a medical perspective the Netherlands (Holland) is interesting because the Dutch Hunger Winter that was implemented by the German invaders caused health problems that are epigenetically evident to this day.

Audrey Hepburn said her health problems were a consequence of starvation as a child in wartime.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

"Farmers, gardeners, builders.

Now I'm intrigued to look further back than 1800s

Audrey Hepburn said her health problems were a consequence of starvation as a child in wartime."

My ancestors didn't starve. They were gassed.

But yes, the Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944 was a terrible event also.

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By *avexxMan
over a year ago

cheshire

chimney sweeps professional rat catchers

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

Mum's side - teachers, nurses, doctors, musicians.

Dad's side - army, teachers, legal.

Going back further (as was quite common in where they're from) the women worked in the houses of plantation owners. Carried their children. You get the idea.

Clearly attracting older white men has been passed down the generations.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A few farmers, along with a sprinkling of thieves and vagabonds…

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By *rAitchMan
over a year ago

Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe

I've a couple of historical documents. My dad's grandfather commissioned a family history in 1910, which was reserched and handwritten. I scanned it to my laptop years ago but only glanced at it. I'm now reading it due to this thread. The book lists wills, births, marriages and deaths, and the first entry is dated 1541.

My paternal great grandfather was a Merchant Navy Captain and Master Mariner - I also have a framed copy of his Master Mariner certificate on my wall. Further back, in the late 1800s, there was a Viscount of Portugal, who was also a Knight Military Commander of the Crown of Italy and a Mayor of Hackney. I've just found a portrait of him online.

On my mothers side, I have a large framed family tree showing a direct lineage to a Knight who was born in 1188, and displays a coat of arms that was granted in 1461.

Seems quite apt that I rent a flat in a country mansion.

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By *viatrixWoman
over a year ago

Redhill

Aztec priests and warriors

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By *TG3Man
over a year ago

Dorchester

"Builders of thorn bracken defences when the Norman’s came over hence our family name"
Dan de Lyon?

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