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How many generations since your last peasant/farmer ancestor?
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08-18-2011, 09:51 PM
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Goodwin
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My dad's side of the family were labourers on farms until about 1910, at which point they left Cambridgeshire for a new life elsewhere - so my paternal grandfather would have been a labourer but for that move (he was born around then). Instead he looked after livestock for a few years before WW2 came knockin' - based on his expertise he looked after donkey power supply routes in Palestine, Eqypt and that general area of the world - after the war he went to work in a factory whilst my dad's mum was a civil servant. My mum's dad was a milkman, butcher and other such things you got from local stores back in the 50's. My dad was the first university graduate on either side of the family.
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