Tell us about your Barbarian ancestors

[Peterski]

Inspired by this thread about occupations of great-great-great grandparents on Anthrogenica:

http://www.anthrogenica.com/showthread.php?5989-What-did-your-3-great-grandfathers-do-for-a-living

https://i.imgur.com/XCvbgBs.png

And here a "true Viking":

https://i.imgur.com/WhdiEVm.png

So, TA members, tell us about your "heroic Viking barbarian whatever" great-grandparents.

[Peterski]

User CelticGerman wrote:


Here is my list, starting with year of birth:

1. 1800 weaver in Thuringia
2. 1799 carpenter in Palatinate
3. 1797 butcher in Brandenburg
4. .......
5. 1805 worker in Mecklenburg
6. 1804 ......... in Mecklenburg
7. 1789 ......... in Hamburg
8. 1810 ......... in Hamburg
9. 1809 worker in Mecklenburg
10. 1821 plumber in Mecklenburg
11. 1801 ........ in Mecklenburg
12. .......
13. 1803 carpenter in Mecklenburg
14. 1806 merchant in Mecklenburg
15. 1805 wheelwright in Tondern/Denmark
16. 1815 working in sugar production in Hamburg

Not bad! Mostly non-farmers!

But a lot of workers instead...

[Oneeye]

Farmers, millers, and merchants

[Norka]

Farmers and Mounted Cavalary Soldiers under Russian empire

[Taiguaitiaoghyrmmumin]

they are dead.

[Newman]

It's quite diversified:


1) Shipmaster - Moerzeke Kastel
2) Shipmaster - Hamme
3) Shipmaster - Moerzeke
4) Shipmaster - Temse
5) Train Station Officer/Cigar Producer - Hasselt
6) Mason/Craftsman - Eindhoven
7) unknown, probably blue collar - Antwerpen
8) unknown, probably blue collar - Antwerpen

9) Stonecutter - Sougné-Remouchamps
10) Quarry supervisor - Durbuy
11) Stonecutter - Sougné-Remouchamps
12) Hotelkeeper - Stoumont
13) Farmer - Sankt-Vith
14) Annuitant: Wealthy Landowner - Bütgenbach
15) Farmer - Theux
16) Contractor - Theux

[Oneeye]

Farmers and Mounted Cavalary Soldiers under Russian empire

On both sides, maternal and paternal, my family fought for the union during our civil war.


And fought in Korea, WWII on both Euro and Pacific fronts. Father's side navymen, mother's Airforce.

[Oneeye]

When I say farmers, I mean homesteaders. They were on the frontiers, including the plains.

[cosmoo]

Direct paternal line:
1765-1813: brigand (lived solely from raiding Ottomans)
1790-?: brigand/cattle herder
circa 1816/7-?: brigand/cattle herder
1846-1938: brigand/cattle herder
1898-1971: farming and herding

[Norka]

On both sides, maternal and paternal, my family fought for the union during our civil war.


And fought in Korea, WWII on both Euro and Pacific fronts. Father's side navymen, mother's Airforce.

Impossible E1b is farmer y-dna. Jk jk. Union is slave owners? My great grandfather on my paternal's maternal side was a Vepsian ex-farmer KGB agent but then they sent him to Gulag. My Crimean Tatar grandfather was always in cavalary fought in Tajikistan spreading communism also sent to Gulags but his father before him was in cavalary under russian empire. Maternal side my grandfathers great grandparents were land owners and were Whites during the revolution the rest were big Red farmers.

[Oneeye]

Impossible E1b is farmer y-dna. Jk jk. Union is slave owners? My great grandfather on my paternal's maternal side was a Vepsian ex-farmer KGB agent but then they sent him to Gulag. My Crimean Tatar grandfather was always in cavalary fought in Tajikistan spreading communism also sent to Gulags but his father before him was in cavalary under russian empire. Maternal side my grandfathers great grandparents were land owners and were Whites during the revolution the rest were big Red farmers.



No, Union is the north. The slave owners were the in the south wanting to secede.

My great grandparents abandoned their homestead they had during the dustbowl... came out west and worked as farmhands.

[Norka]

No, Union is the north. The slave owners were the in the south wanting to secede.

My great grandparents abandoned their homestead they had during the dustbowl... came out west and worked as farmhands.

"Farm hand" out West. We all know what he actually did.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JGhp3Nfhs8g/hqdefault.jpg

[Peterski]

No, Union is the north. The slave owners were the in the south wanting to secede.

Only less than 1% of all Southern Whites owned slaves.

And there were some slave-owners in the North as well.

[Oneeye]

Only less than 1% of all Southern Whites owned slaves.

And there were some slave-owners in the North as well.

I wasn't condemning the south. Just stating which side my ancestors foughy for.

[Aodhan]

300- AD Farmers
1- Farmers
1800- Farmers
1900- Farmers
1990- Me

[meninodeengenho]

Most of my ancestors through paternal line were sugar plantation-owners, military officers (normally colonel, but some were generals) and politicians (member of parliament and mayor of their town).

[Aodhan]

Seriously now, I don't know, but I know that some of my ancestors fought WW1 for the Italian and Austro-Hungarian armies

[Mazik]

1) 1807-1841 Farmer R1a
2) 1815-1897 Farmer
3) 1828-1924 Soldier
4) ----
5) 1820-1857 Tenant
6) 1811- Farmer R1a
7) 1829 - Farmer I2
8) 1835 - Farmer G2a

9) 1795 - 1867 Farmer
10) 1793 - 1874 Soldier
11) 1793 - 1844 Farmer
12) 1785 - x Farmer
13) 1799 - 1881 Farmer I2
14) 1796 - 1865 Soldier
15) 1792 - 1821 Farmer
16) 1792 - 1856 Farmer

17) 1763 - 1833 Sami priest R1a
18) 1766 - 1826 Sami priest
19) 1778 - 1841 Settler
20) 1779 - 1865 Settler
21) 1780 - 1870 Settler R1a
22) 1773 - 1841 Settler G2a
23) 1783 - 1846 Settler
24) 1760 - 1831 Farmer

25) 1798 - 1839 Farmer
26) 1796 - 1851 Farmer
27) 1759 - 1832 Farmer I1
28) 1776 - 1851 Farmer I2
29) 1805 - 1845 Farmer
30) 1801 - 1868 Farmer
31) 1792 - x Farmer
32) 1773 - 1849 Farmer

[MePologize]

Don't underestimate farmers mates

[Dick]

Greek athletes and saxon hooligans

[de Burgh II]

Don't have much genealogical summations to articulate it per individual per se, but I know both sides come from a long line of tradesmen; namely, cabinetmakers and lumberjacks.

[Shah-Jehan]

Landlord, Landlord and Landlord.

[hypergiant]

Warriors


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfBmKZVPPHc

[Longbowman]

Dad's dad's dad's dad's dad - ?, peasant
Dad's dad's dad's mum's dad - ?, peasant
Dad's dad's mum's dad's dad - Most likely a farmer
Dad's dad's mum's mum's dad - Most likely a farmer
Dad's mum's dad's dad's dad - ?, peasant
Dad's mum's dad's mum's dad - ?, peasant
Dad's mum's mum's dad's dad - ?, peasant
Dad's mum's mum's mum's dad - ?, peasant
Mum's dad's dad's dad's dad - Academic, linguist and explorer (http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/mullerlibrary/digital_library/Intranet/Loewe/stainedglassdesign/Louis-00.html)
Mum's dad's dad's mum's dad - Unknown, white collar Silesian, very possibly also an academic
Mum's dad's mum's dad's dad - Stockbroker/financier
Mum's dad's mum's mum's dad - Entrepreneur
Mum's mum's dad's dad's dad - Unknown, economic migrant - but his son was a Khazan (cantor, singer/reverend)
Mum's mum's dad's mum's dad - Rabbi
Mum's mum's mum's dad's dad - Stockbroker/financier
Mum's mum's mum's mum's dad - Venture capitalist/financier, possibly also opium trader

This is mostly 1850-1900, a generation or two after the last of the slavers.

[JBoscherville]

My nan worked in Sainsbury's.

[Freeroostah]

Farmers, farmers.......and later immigrants

[Longbowman]

My nan worked in Sainsbury's.

ur nan is shit m8

mine was a teacher

[Gooding]

Farmers, soldiers, preachers and merchants. Heavy drinkers too, the randy lot of them.

[Era]

So many farmers, I don't have any of them for at least 3-4 generations. Don't know before that.

[JBoscherville]

ur nan is shit m8

mine was a teacher

yh

well my nan would fite ur nan then bring me free stuff from the bakery

[Longbowman]

yh

well my nan would fite ur nan then bring me free stuff from the bakery

my nan tought me it wos wrong 2 fite tho & that sweets rot ur teeth

check m8

[Grab the Gauge]

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b5mEueIFNMU/UjeNnwmCHrI/AAAAAAAACj0/qULbdl7E0Hw/s1600/wallpaper.jpg

[Voskos]

I'd rather not say.

[Neon Knight]

Probably all working class occupations - cotton mills, coal mines, etc. Backbone of the Empire.

[Hoxhaism]

http://misteriosdomundo.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Quer-ficar-milionário-Resolva-um-desses-problemas2.jpg

[Longbowman]

Back then, only 4 of my great-great-great grandparents were British-born :(

an additional 7 migrated to the UK though.

[Harkonnen]

My great grandfather was politician, banker and businessman. And you can say that he was definitely a warrior too. Rest of the grandpas were farmers.

[StevenTylerAerosmith]

Dad's dad's dad's dad's dad - ?, peasant
Dad's dad's dad's mum's dad - ?, peasant
Dad's dad's mum's dad's dad - Most likely a farmer
Dad's dad's mum's mum's dad - Most likely a farmer
Dad's mum's dad's dad's dad - ?, peasant
Dad's mum's dad's mum's dad - ?, peasant
Dad's mum's mum's dad's dad - ?, peasant
Dad's mum's mum's mum's dad - ?, peasant
Mum's dad's dad's dad's dad - Academic, linguist and explorer (http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/mullerlibrary/digital_library/Intranet/Loewe/stainedglassdesign/Louis-00.html)
Mum's dad's dad's mum's dad - Unknown, white collar Silesian, very possibly also an academic
Mum's dad's mum's dad's dad - Stockbroker/financier
Mum's dad's mum's mum's dad - Entrepreneur
Mum's mum's dad's dad's dad - Unknown, economic migrant - but his son was a Khazan (cantor, singer/reverend)
Mum's mum's dad's mum's dad - Rabbi
Mum's mum's mum's dad's dad - Stockbroker/financier
Mum's mum's mum's mum's dad - Venture capitalist/financier, possibly also opium trader

This is mostly 1850-1900, a generation or two after the last of the slavers.

why no moms on ur list?

[Longbowman]

why no moms on ur list?

Because the chances of any of them having a professional career back in those days is quite slim. We can assume most of my dad's female ancestors were housewives of farmer's wives. Most of my mother's female ancestors were also housewives. However, my mum's mum's dad's mum (one generation later) was an entrepreneur, something she got into after her husband left her to raise her three children, quite unusual in those days. Her business was based on sewing (so a little more stereotypical) and she was also an early financier and supporter of Jewish settlements in Israel. She helped fun a fishing village there, and she is also buried there, strangely enough.

[Token]

Farmers and small business owners.

[Blondie]

Farmers, workers, miners, soldiers, teachers