[Gerribase]

2 on my fathers side, don't know of any farmers ever on my mothers.

[HomePageOEMfreeSOFTWARE]

4 on each parent's side, taking the OP literally.

[LsrSRVxR]

My father picked cotton.

[Yessaniloas]

3 of 4 of my grand parents grew up in peasant/farmer families. One grandfather ended up being an accountant the other an engineer/mechanic while the grandmothers ended up being some sort of office clerks.

[vqIo7X2U]

Practically all my great grandparents were born into peasant families, but used the opportunities provided by the young Soviet state to get an education.

[Dwerfsd]

My grandma on my mother's side grew up on a farm.

[carreraboyracer]

I don't think so.

JM

[Tribas4u]

Unless the point was that they raised chickens for sale/etc.

I think that just having chickens which you get eggs/meat from occasionally was how people lived life back then. It wasn't being a farmer.

JM

[DoctorTDent]

Mother's side, I don't know yet.

Father's side, it'd have to be pretty far back. One great grandfather owned a bookstore in Yaffa and married my great-grandmother who was of a 'prominent Sunni Muslim family' (not my words; from wikipedia regarding the Salam family of Lebanon). The other great grandfather was a senior official in the Lebanese Ministry of Finance whose family, Touqan, originally came from Nablus. The Touqan family has a fairly in depth wikipedia article on it. I mentioned it here on Apolyton before. Leaders of an Arab tribal confederation who served as officers in the Ottoman military becoming local rulers in Palestine around Nablus.


I don't know about farther back but my great-grandparents, at least, were clearly not peasants and considering their stations, peasant ancestors were probably still a ways back.

[DoroKickcrofe]

Both of my grandfathers farmed as well as did other things (oil, aeronautical engineering). They weren't peasants though, in that they didn't work somebody else's land.

[RgtrsKfR]

looks like me and Albie have compeltely different backgrounds, uh?

[Talicoabilk]

looks like me and Albie have compeltely different backgrounds, uh?

Don't speak to me, peasant

The funny thing is, I'm the one here in the ghetto.

[DghtRdc]

Don't speak to me, peasant

The funny thing is, I'm the one here in the ghetto.

Even funnier, I just finished a fully paid intership and I'm going into my final year for my Civil Engineering degree. The tables might be turning

[meencegic]

Sure

[lalffibra]

Two for me, if you count my Grandfather who owned a ranch. Three otherwise.

I think it's hilarious that Al has such distinguished ancestors and yet lives in a ghetto in Philly.

Let's see.

Draftsman/Teacher/Trucker/Homemaker/Rancher/Teacher/Farmer/Homemaker/Farmer/Homemaker/Farmer/Homemaker/Mechanic/Homemaker.

[Gromiaaborn]

Two for me, if you count my Grandfather who owned a ranch. Three otherwise.

I think it's hilarious that Al has such distinguished ancestors and yet lives in a ghetto in Philly.

Ehh... the American Dream

[Joesred]

You're like Pygmalion, in reverse!

That's retarded. Being a poor person with wealthy ancestors is not analogous to turning a woman into a statue.

[Toivaluadiora]

Hm. The closest that I can think of going back to the 18th century was a great-grandfather who was Cherokee, but that gets into some problematic definitions. Other than that, my ancestors have mostly been tradesmen.

[Goodwin]

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.

[reachmanxx]

Mothers father homesteaded in Alberta ~100 years ago. He came from an agricultural community in Ontario that started from UEL's.

Mother's mother was a farm girl from Saskatchewan with a Scotish background.

Father's family is French and had been running around the woods for God knows how long. Someone with his name was around at the founding of Quebec. By the time my father came along his family was fairly prosperous in an agricultural community in North-Central Alberta.

Thus, both mother and father came from farming backgrounds. Mother went to university, became a teacher and then stayed in the city.