Free Access this weekend on Ancestry 28th-31st August

[4LauraM]

 
Dumb question - but will this free access weekend help me to find out what my grandfather did for a living?

CLARKE, Frank Charles
b.  4 April 1892
Westham Essex
d. 25 May 1967
interred crem near Peterborough

[msr]

 

[msr]

Laura, you may find him in the 1901 and 1911 census, the latter may have occupation.  Then there are the Military records for you to look at.

[silvery]

Dumb question - but will this free access weekend help me to find out what my grandfather did for a living?

CLARKE, Frank Charles
b.  4 April 1892
Westham Essex
d. 25 May 1967
interred crem near Peterborough

Is there no family about that might know?   Snippets, anything really.

[trystan]

Dumb question - but will this free access weekend help me to find out what my grandfather did for a living?

Laura,

In a couple of days you can find out if you can or not

Trystan

[4LauraM]

I know there are military records about my grandfather but that doesn't take me to 1920 when my father was born.

My Dad & my Aunt were born in Manchester, Rusholme Parish, but moved to Cambridge when my Dad was 3 to 4 yrs old.

My Aunt is alive but dementia has set in and her son (my cousin) doesn't know of his employment.
He only remembers our grandfather having nicely shined shoes and a crisp crease on his trousers.

[KGarrad]

What occupation is on your father's birth certificate?

[clairec666]

Laura - your father's birth certificate and your grandfather's marriage certificate will give his occupation. In the 1911 census he would have been 19, so will have had an occupation, but it may not have been the same one he spent the majority of his life doing. Worth looking at though....

Manchester marriage records are on Ancestry, so it's worth looking for your grandfather's marriage there.

[4LauraM]

Unfortunately, I do not have my father's birth certificate.

Think I need to apply to Gov.UK for it or my cousins' in England have it.