FabSwingers.com mobile

Join us FREE, we're FREE to use

Web's largest swingers site since 2006.

Already registered?
Login here

Back to forum list
Back to The Lounge

What trade were your ancestors?

Jump to newest
 

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

Mine were accountants, soldiers and a vicar.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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


"Mine were accountants, soldiers and a vicar. "

Jewelers & Cobblers.....no seriously

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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


"Mine were accountants, soldiers and a vicar.

Jewelers & Cobblers.....no seriously"

Thats an interesting combination.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

Farmers paternal side. Copper miners from Tintagel, also coal miners and a boiled sweet emporium from maternal side.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *peedypeteMan
over a year ago

derby

a chef, engineer, go back far enough and they were Prussian Counts and Countesses.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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


"

Thats an interesting combination. "

With mine I can tell your shoe size, by the arch of you eyebrows and know how many "sparklies" its going to take to get you into bed......I love genetics

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

Paternal grandfather was a printer great grandfather was a costermonger and great great grandfather was a wheelwright

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

a lot were navy and i am related to sir winston churchill on my dads side

my mums were coal miners mainly

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *mumaWoman
over a year ago

Livingston

no idea, but I suspect Royalty

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

I adore sapphires, especially red ones (trust me on that), bit The Star of Bombay and the Star of India are my two favourite gemstones...... why thats important I just don't know

When it comes to shoes, I like ones that accentuate the calf muscle of a lady (the shoe is shaped in such a way as to pull taught the muscle, painful (probably), but shows stamina and strength in the woman (I think) .... is that fetish.... oh shit I have a fetish

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

erm no idea, my great granddad was in the navy, and the other great granddad was killed in the war.. no idea what their parents did

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *he BendoversCouple
over a year ago

Carlisle

Lime Burners in the 1800's

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

my fathers sides were vikings that settled in scotland

so mass murderers and rapists i spose

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

clergymen and farmers on paternal side, a famous family of hoteliers on the maternal side, however so far removed from that side that there certainly are no silver spoons in this family now.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

Father's side were tax collectors from France and Mother's side were coalminers from Wales. Not a fookin English bone in my body.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

Coopers and miners!

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden

The majority of them were hunter gatherer types who migrated from the heart of Africa to occupy most of Europe as the last ice age subsided.

True story bros (and female bros), I shit you not.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

recently done our family tree and theres quite a mix from farmers to publicans and solicitors to vicars

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

mine wer farmers back at home

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *ussiebloke40Man
over a year ago

kings lynn

soldiers, sailors, tinkers and spies,

but being an aussie, probably a load of crooks too

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

Farmers policemen teachers. How I ended up a banker I will never know!

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

not sure.

did some digging around for mum a couple years ago and found we had descendants in south africa tho. mum actually went over and visited/paid her respects at a great, great, great grandfathers grave

pretty cool

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

I presume one of my ancestors was called Harry

And he had a son lol

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

prostitute

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

Don't know for certain, however, my grandfather did not work, and neither did my father or his 10+ siblings.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

So does anyone else here love the programme who do you think you are?

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *ssentialminx2011Couple
over a year ago

sheffield

Dad: Graphic Designer,Local Artist & 30yrs in Scouting

Mum:Infant school Secretary & Piano Techer & local Fund raiser

Paternal Grandparents: Miner & Shopkeeper,Maternal G/P's:Builder & passionate gardener(Grandad's Crysants & Tommies were the best!!)

Nannan worked in service in London ,then in the ammnunuitions factory during WW2 !!! She had my mum & uncle & became a mum x

Later Nannan worked for "Esso" in a wooden 3pennybit shaped quiosk,seving customers Petol on a niteshift till 10pm !!! i can sooooo recollect my mum (her daughter) going to sit with her in the wintertime,so Nannan wasnt on her own) We always collected the various freebie that customers were given with their Petrol purchases ,coins etc from the "put a Tiger in your tank"" promotions!! ~"can any one else remember the worlds cup coin collection they had in te 60's??? xx

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

Mine were grave robbers and highway men and that's the female side, the men were goat herders

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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


"Dad: Graphic Designer,Local Artist & 30yrs in Scouting

Mum:Infant school Secretary & Piano Techer & local Fund raiser

Paternal Grandparents: Miner & Shopkeeper,Maternal G/P's:Builder & passionate gardener(Grandad's Crysants & Tommies were the best!!)

Nannan worked in service in London ,then in the ammnunuitions factory during WW2 !!! She had my mum & uncle & became a mum x

Later Nannan worked for "Esso" in a wooden 3pennybit shaped quiosk,seving customers Petol on a niteshift till 10pm !!! i can sooooo recollect my mum (her daughter) going to sit with her in the wintertime,so Nannan wasnt on her own) We always collected the various freebie that customers were given with their Petrol purchases ,coins etc from the "put a Tiger in your tank"" promotions!! ~"can any one else remember the worlds cup coin collection they had in te 60's??? xx "

Loved reading this - pure nostalgia. Yes I remember the medals and then there was World Cup Willie. Tough as a lion and never will give up - thats why Willie is favourite for the cup! Also Tiger in Your Tank promotion giving away orange and black furry tiger tails!

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *ensualfire88Man
over a year ago

Edinburgh

Humans.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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


"So does anyone else here love the programme who do you think you are? "

Yes it is fascinating. Makes me weep xx

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

This will make your eyes ache if nowt else,,,,,, but it would seems we are all probably related to King Charlemagne

King Charlemagne lived approximately 40 generation’s back from present day.

So as we know, each person born has 2 parents, 4 grandparents 8 great-grandparents, etc etc etc,,, which equals approximately 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion ancestors ), when these figures are taken backward 40-generations,

Of which we must presume half a trillion would be male ancestors.

Now since the entire male population of Europe at the time of King Charlemagne was only about 15 million people, these half trillion ancestors we each have, cannot all have been sired by different men.

Obviously there must have been lots of crossbreeding, and many of our ancestral lines must therefore cross and re-cross, eventually ending up at the same person.

So let's assume that each of our 40th-generation male ancestors is a randomly chosen man from eighth-century Europe.

Then choosing any one such ancestor, for instance your father's father's, father',s father etc, we reach a probability factor of that person, being King Charlemagne as being only one in 15 million.

However now consider the probability that none of your 40th-generation ancestors is King Charlemagne.

For that to happen, every one of your half trillion male ancestors must therefore not be King Charlemagne,

Which would be an amazing coincidence..

Assuming the potential of all "not-being" King Charlemagne related occurrences are independent of each other, the laws of probability state, the mathematical probability of all these events occurring simultaneously is obtained by multiplying together their individual probabilities!!!

This turns out to be about one chance in 1015,000. (That's a one with 15,000 zeroes after it BTW), a figure that's is greater than the estimated number of atoms in the entire universe.

Therefore, if this analysis is even remotely close to being correct, it's virtually impossible that King Charlemagne is not among your ancestors or mine for that matter…..

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago

(She/ her) in Sensualityland


"This will make your eyes ache if nowt else,,,,,, but it would seems we are all probably related to King Charlemagne

King Charlemagne lived approximately 40 generation’s back from present day.

So as we know, each person born has 2 parents, 4 grandparents 8 great-grandparents, etc etc etc,,, which equals approximately 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion ancestors ), when these figures are taken backward 40-generations,

Of which we must presume half a trillion would be male ancestors.

Now since the entire male population of Europe at the time of King Charlemagne was only about 15 million people, these half trillion ancestors we each have, cannot all have been sired by different men.

Obviously there must have been lots of crossbreeding, and many of our ancestral lines must therefore cross and re-cross, eventually ending up at the same person.

So let's assume that each of our 40th-generation male ancestors is a randomly chosen man from eighth-century Europe.

Then choosing any one such ancestor, for instance your father's father's, father',s father etc, we reach a probability factor of that person, being King Charlemagne as being only one in 15 million.

However now consider the probability that none of your 40th-generation ancestors is King Charlemagne.

For that to happen, every one of your half trillion male ancestors must therefore not be King Charlemagne,

Which would be an amazing coincidence..

Assuming the potential of all "not-being" King Charlemagne related occurrences are independent of each other, the laws of probability state, the mathematical probability of all these events occurring simultaneously is obtained by multiplying together their individual probabilities!!!

This turns out to be about one chance in 1015,000. (That's a one with 15,000 zeroes after it BTW), a figure that's is greater than the estimated number of atoms in the entire universe.

Therefore, if this analysis is even remotely close to being correct, it's virtually impossible that King Charlemagne is not among your ancestors or mine for that matter…..

"
what about the Queen?;-)

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago

Hull

On my Mother's side, immediate family members were Stonemasons, Coach-Builders and Coachpainters, although the females seem to have traditionally stayed at home looking after the children etc. Nothing much is known before my Grandparents time.

On my Father's side, it is different. My grandparents (who died before I was born), had their own separate businesses, my grandfather being a Sanitary Inspector, the forerunner to what we know as the Environmental Health Inspector. His wife was a Nurse.

The great Grandparents had the same attitude. He was the Minister of the Poor for the local council district, very highly respected, such that when he died, the entire town closed down for a few hours as a mark of respect, to line the streets for his funerl cortege.

His wife had her own gent's Barbers business; a rare occurrence in those days!.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *ssentialminx2011Couple
over a year ago

sheffield

OOOPS!! : Petrol & Teacher !! that's beter now!

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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


" what about the Queen?;-)"

Affro,,,,, who are you calling a Queen?..... ME!!!!! ......

Jeez Affro!,,,, just coz I told you, I wear a crown when I'm sitting on the bog.... sigh,,,,,

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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


"This will make your eyes ache if nowt else,,,,,, but it would seems we are all probably related to King Charlemagne

King Charlemagne lived approximately 40 generation’s back from present day.

So as we know, each person born has 2 parents, 4 grandparents 8 great-grandparents, etc etc etc,,, which equals approximately 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion ancestors ), when these figures are taken backward 40-generations,

Of which we must presume half a trillion would be male ancestors.

Now since the entire male population of Europe at the time of King Charlemagne was only about 15 million people, these half trillion ancestors we each have, cannot all have been sired by different men.

Obviously there must have been lots of crossbreeding, and many of our ancestral lines must therefore cross and re-cross, eventually ending up at the same person.

So let's assume that each of our 40th-generation male ancestors is a randomly chosen man from eighth-century Europe.

Then choosing any one such ancestor, for instance your father's father's, father',s father etc, we reach a probability factor of that person, being King Charlemagne as being only one in 15 million.

However now consider the probability that none of your 40th-generation ancestors is King Charlemagne.

For that to happen, every one of your half trillion male ancestors must therefore not be King Charlemagne,

Which would be an amazing coincidence..

Assuming the potential of all "not-being" King Charlemagne related occurrences are independent of each other, the laws of probability state, the mathematical probability of all these events occurring simultaneously is obtained by multiplying together their individual probabilities!!!

This turns out to be about one chance in 1015,000. (That's a one with 15,000 zeroes after it BTW), a figure that's is greater than the estimated number of atoms in the entire universe.

Therefore, if this analysis is even remotely close to being correct, it's virtually impossible that King Charlemagne is not among your ancestors or mine for that matter…..

"

Wasn't King Charly a Jaffa?

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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


"

Therefore, if this analysis is even remotely close to being correct, it's virtually impossible that King Charlemagne is not among your ancestors or mine for that matter…..

"

Aye.... all very interesting but not as good as the Monkey Hangers - not many of those admitting to their ancestry today!

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

horny vikings, ship builders and piss heads

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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


"horny vikings, ship builders and piss heads "

They might have been t total vikings

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

800AD-odd, Duncan, king of Scotland so professional bully-boy, I guess. Other side, stone mason 1600 Dunblane

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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


"800AD-odd, Duncan, king of Scotland so professional bully-boy, I guess. Other side, stone mason 1600 Dunblane "

Thats impressive to take it back so accurately

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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


"

Aye.... all very interesting but not as good as the Monkey Hangers - not many of those admitting to their ancestry today!

"

Yes but that’s entirely understandable, is it not?

I mean,,,,,, would you want to admit where you came from, if you’d ended up there!!!! pfft.... I don't think so!!!!

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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


"Wasn't King Charly a Jaffa? "

Ah Wishy....

I’m unable to corroborate if "King Charlie" the subject of my post was indeed seedless !!!,,,, ,

As I must admit, if Carlsberg did Plagiarism, I’d be pissed right now

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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


"

Aye.... all very interesting but not as good as the Monkey Hangers - not many of those admitting to their ancestry today!

Yes but that’s entirely understandable, is it not?

I mean,,,,,, would you want to admit where you came from, if you’d ended up there!!!! pfft.... I don't think so!!!!

"

You're bad!!!!!!

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *ensualfire88Man
over a year ago

Edinburgh


"Wasn't King Charly a Jaffa?

Ah Wishy....

I’m unable to corroborate if "King Charlie" the subject of my post was indeed seedless !!!,,,, ,

As I must admit, if Carlsberg did Plagiarism, I’d be pissed right now "

It was a brilliant explanation of probability though, something most people don't really understand very much about.

They confuse the odds with probability.

The odds that I will win the Eurmillions jackpot are minuscule - I shouldn't buy a ticket.

The probability that SOMEONE will win it are incredibly high, close to a certainty.

Which person wins is totally random, everyone has the same chance.

Hence I SHOULD buy a ticket, because probability is in my favour, even if odds arent.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *ssentialminx2011Couple
over a year ago

sheffield

On dad's side of the family ~ Grand~praents & Great Grand~parents ALL unfortunately

died b4 my brother and i were even born xxx

...... but my dad "always" said his mum,my nannan ,would have absolutely "idollised ME!!" as all 5 of her daughters (my dad's sister's( ALL DIED B4 THEIR 5TH BIRTHDAY!!!~ which tragically DID happen in those early days (prior to innoculations etc)

Dads sisters (my 5 Anunties) all died with Scarlet Fever,Diptheria,Nuemonia & Ruematic Fever!!! So ~ you can all imagine ,my pood dad "sighed wth relief ,when his precise only daughter reach & survived her 5th birthday!! & i am to this day THE only female ever born ,that has survived EVER!!

I personally have lost a daughter @ 13days old (my Rosie) woud have been 28 on the 18th June this year (bless Ya darling!!) and misscarried 3 others @ 7,11 & 17 weeks respectively!! Then had a very bad Eptopic pregnancy in sept 2003 @ only 7weeks ,resulting in my loosing my left Fallopion tube & almost MY OWN LIFE!! OMG !! never want to experience that again !!

My own mum died @ the tender age of only 35!!! (medical mishap in Moorgate Hospital~left in recovery ward,internal stitch came undone & she bleed to death!!! OCT 25TH 1974!!) Dd fought the case against the Trent regional Health Aurthority for almost 9yrs & was EVENTUALLY awarded a pathetic £3k ,with a result of "death bt misadventure!!!" WTF!!! ~it that happened TODAY Dad would be a MILLIONAIRRE!! ~Pathetic case of "pass the buck~ as the "after care team were blamed !!"

So ya can all imagine MY DAD ~ was MY WORLD ~BEING A DAD & A MUM to both my brotger & i xx !! (until his sudden death @ 11.20am 0n Sat 29th June 2002,whilst in the middle of playing crown green bowls ,with his "fellow ex seviceman from his local MESS!" XX

LUVYA DAD!!! Mwah xx

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *ssentialminx2011Couple
over a year ago

sheffield

yes!!! we had ALL the Esso TIGERS!!

Nans "customers" would give my brother & i their coupons,if they didnt have children of their own to collect for,so ya can imagine we had the lot!!!

I do imparticulll remember the world cup coins !! They were in a cardboard double folded A4 sized wallet,with round pockets tat the coins "pressed into!!" OMG!! THAT SOOOOOOO TAKES ME BACK LOL

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

There’s an old cemetery in Newcastle upon Tyne where I occasionally stroll just digesting our ancestor’s fixation with elaborate headstones and memorials commemorating the exploits of those that lived, worked and died in the 1800s

One Grave that always captures my imagination… is of a chap whom during his life time, invented something known as Transparent plaster….!. he died way back in the middle 1800s,

Although I’d love to find out what his transparent plaster invention actually was, and what it was used for!…

I’m now quite chuffed, just to have shared this information on here…

Simply because I think the guy himself would be well pleased that knowledge of his work back then, had now entered the realms of cyber-space and will float about the cosmos long afer his tombstone has turned to dust

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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


"There’s an old cemetery in Newcastle upon Tyne where I occasionally stroll just digesting our ancestor’s fixation with elaborate headstones and memorials commemorating the exploits of those that lived, worked and died in the 1800s

One Grave that always captures my imagination… is of a chap whom during his life time, invented something known as Transparent plaster….!. he died way back in the middle 1800s,

Although I’d love to find out what his transparent plaster invention actually was, and what it was used for!…

I’m now quite chuffed, just to have shared this information on here…

Simply because I think the guy himself would be well pleased that knowledge of his work back then, had now entered the realms of cyber-space and will float about the cosmos long afer his tombstone has turned to dust

"

The one on the right out of town from John Dobson roundabout to Jesmond? Salvage yard next to it?

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden


"There’s an old cemetery in Newcastle upon Tyne where I occasionally stroll just digesting our ancestor’s fixation with elaborate headstones and memorials commemorating the exploits of those that lived, worked and died in the 1800s

One Grave that always captures my imagination… is of a chap whom during his life time, invented something known as Transparent plaster….!. he died way back in the middle 1800s,

Although I’d love to find out what his transparent plaster invention actually was, and what it was used for!…

I’m now quite chuffed, just to have shared this information on here…

Simply because I think the guy himself would be well pleased that knowledge of his work back then, had now entered the realms of cyber-space and will float about the cosmos long afer his tombstone has turned to dust

"

Fuck that shit! I invented cock lasers!

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

Mail me Ill give you more details and a website soxy xxx

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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


"The one on the right out of town from John Dobson roundabout to Jesmond? Salvage yard next to it?"

Thats the one!!!

The children graves set among the trees along the East Wall are particularly emotive....

Many plots are unmarked other than for Initials carved into the trees trunks, which have grown over the years maintaining these scars in their bark as the only reminder of a life cut short

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

I'm from a long line of Coal miners

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *empnbunkCouple
over a year ago

south coast

Highway robbers and i'm happily following in their footsteps

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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


"The one on the right out of town from John Dobson roundabout to Jesmond? Salvage yard next to it?

Thats the one!!!

The children graves set among the trees along the East Wall are particularly emotive....

Many plots are unmarked other than for Initials carved into the trees trunks, which have grown over the years maintaining these scars in their bark as the only reminder of a life cut short"

Its a fab place to visit. I can't believe we both do same thing and Mr Morrison and his sticking plasters! Amazing. I thought I was the only nerd online!!!

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

Just having a laugh to myself Soxy its on the left as you leave town - your direction radar is also same as mine!! But you knew what I meant! I looks like its on the right hahahaha!

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

pure romany gypsy on both my dads parents side (one english one welsh ) and im descended from James Watt on my mums side .....so Im a romany celt ....... a heady mix ..

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

braveheart - gladiators

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

my mothers side..

Seamstress, herbalist, and witch lol (for the ladys)

Cobbler, miner and soldier

Fathers side,

Navy, navy and navy, before that navy, before that, navy.. lol I know that somewhere along there one of my fathers ancestors ran a pub and another a brothal...

Cali

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *andKCouple
over a year ago

Norfolk

K can trace her ancestors back to 8 different nationalities mine goes back to North Norfolk where my grandad was a cobbler and horsebreaker

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

merchant seamen

and before that sloop sailors on the inland waterways.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

Haven't got a clue about occupations, but do know that my side are a mixture of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh.

Kate is the same but has a Polish dad so we're both proper mongrels.

Growing up, I can't recall any of my family doing anything out of the ordinary, except may be my Great Grandad who was a Mine Captain? probably senior pit manager or similar, but know he was referred to as a Mine Captain

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

Oh and Rob Roy via his son who was hung for absconding with a young widow from the lowlands. A parcel of rogues tbh

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *umpkinMan
over a year ago

near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack!

I can only go back as far as grandparents. My partenal grandfather was an ostler (someone who tended to horses) and my maternal grandfather was a railway signalman. My Dad was a lorry driver and my Mum was a shop assistant.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *athnBobCouple
over a year ago

sandwell

Of the four branches (both mine and Caths lines)

One was Mining another steel and foundry workers and another was Labourers/boxers/ruffians and whatever else they fancied.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *athnBobCouple
over a year ago

sandwell

Don't know what the forth line did for sure ...bakers I think

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

The only one I know for certain (still looking at the others) was a Cricketer...

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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


"I can only go back as far as grandparents. My partenal grandfather was an ostler (someone who tended to horses) and my maternal grandfather was a railway signalman. My Dad was a lorry driver and my Mum was a shop assistant."

It's very easy to do your family tree these days. With the 1911 Census now available you can find out who your great grandparents were and then trace back from that to at least 1841 (when the first official Census was taken), and from there you search parish records.

I've done mine on both sides of my parents families and have my paternal line going back to 1591 and my maternal side going back to the late 1700s.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

Back home they were train drivers and in the army before that. No royalty which is a shame.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *amschwingerzCouple
over a year ago

West

Boat builders, brushmakers, artists, actors, and writers...fuck knows what went wrong after my parents came along...Im none of those

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

They were happy farmimg in their fields till they were abducted, chained and shipped overseas. After that they had over 100 years with no choice on what they did.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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


"They were happy farmimg in their fields till they were abducted, chained and shipped overseas. After that they had over 100 years with no choice on what they did. "

So you're not from the Uk then? If you were you'd know who your great grandparents were at the very least as it's all in the Censuses from 1841.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

Inventor, lots in the medical profession, a madam, and a few villains

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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


"Inventor, lots in the medical profession, a madam, and a few villains "

Feckin told ya you was a Jeckyll n Hyde character!

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville


"Inventor, lots in the medical profession, a madam, and a few villains

Feckin told ya you was a Jeckyll n Hyde character! "
lol, it was interesting finding out about my maternal great great great grandmother, what a naughty minx she was ....cheeky git!!!

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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


"Mine were accountants, soldiers and a vicar. "

oh you can tell you're from stockport !

5 miles up the road and they'd have been down t'pit or in't mill like mine

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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


"Inventor, lots in the medical profession, a madam, and a few villains

Feckin told ya you was a Jeckyll n Hyde character! lol, it was interesting finding out about my maternal great great great grandmother, what a naughty minx she was ....cheeky git!!! "

EE lass, where there's muck there's brass.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

Dad was in the SPG in the 80's mum ran her own business and going back it was percy filth dads side going back a long long way back to the original peelers.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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


"Dad was in the SPG in the 80's mum ran her own business and going back it was percy filth dads side going back a long long way back to the original peelers."

you mean you related to Sir Robert himself?

Ooo.. we play with coppers. They have such lovely truncheons.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *rs kemeaCouple
over a year ago

angus

I come from a long line of fish wives on my mum's side, from the blue toon lol. Not sure what the male side of the family did apart from drink but more than likely that there's a few fishermen in there somewhere.

On my Dad's side I'm guessing we were locksmiths by the surname. I do know that the family were freemen of the city of York going back until at least the 1600's. My nana's family were farmers and my dads cousins still have farms just outside York.

Oh and apparently we're related to Dick Turpin through 2 different lines of dad's family.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *ertnbeckyCouple
over a year ago

oldham

seamen back as far as trafalgar on my fathers side and spanish gypos on my mums

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

A-bomb scientists , Astronauts and Big Issue sellers

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

The only thing out of the ordinary is going back to the crusades where on my fathers side ancestors went out on the crusades. Since it was mainly manufacturing.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

Miners and politicians - phew what a mix

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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


"Mine were accountants, soldiers and a vicar. "

Vikings

quite a lot of pillaging etc

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

My paternal grandfather Irish horse dealer, grandmother Welsh Romany.

Traces ancestors Scandinavian.

XXXX

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *emima_puddlefuckCouple
over a year ago

hexham

farm labourer thrown out of his tied cottage for trying to start a union founder of the NUM.

Brickie from germany

Scottish Aristocracy

i'm complicated

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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

2 Generations at perkins grandad and great grandad my dad by trade is a bricky specialising in stone masionary 7 years apprentaship and whilst doing that he worked as a milkman. And my nan was a nurse she worked in the Peterborough hospital when it was based where the Peterborough museums is now and which is supposed to be haunted.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *ouple1234Couple
over a year ago

BELFAST UK

gun runners

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

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


"2 Generations at perkins grandad and great grandad my dad by trade is a bricky specialising in stone masionary 7 years apprentaship and whilst doing that he worked as a milkman. And my nan was a nurse she worked in the Peterborough hospital when it was based where the Peterborough museums is now and which is supposed to be haunted."

Thought that read...two generations of gherkins

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 
 

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


"2 Generations at perkins grandad and great grandad my dad by trade is a bricky specialising in stone masionary 7 years apprentaship and whilst doing that he worked as a milkman. And my nan was a nurse she worked in the Peterborough hospital when it was based where the Peterborough museums is now and which is supposed to be haunted.

Thought that read...two generations of gherkins "

Lol its very sad all the old industries have gone very sad.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
Post new Message to Thread
back to top