For me it was my Mother.
To bw honest, no clue, both my parents didn’t have dirt floors and they were born in '43 and '48. Maybe my grandparents, but I can’t check anymore, as all family members at my mother’s side are dead, as well as the oldest ones at my father’s side. (Including both my parents)
I guess dirt floors were for the very poor pre WW2 in the Netherlands.
This has to be a Yank centric question. Very few places in Europe in the last 120 years would have had dirt floors unless they were very poor and rural.
We’re going back to at least my great grandparents, if not further, it’s very likely we’d be looking at some long-forgotten relative in “the old country”
My dad once worked in a steel mill, on his first day on the job they gave him a broom and told him to sweep the floors. After a sweeping for a while while with no obvious progress being made he eventually realized it was a dirt floor.
My family disappeared into white trash before we know that answer.
Meanwhile, my wife can trace her family back to an early 19th century vice president and actual slave owners.
Edit: to be fair, I did my genetic analysis and do now know of distant relatives (whom I will probably never contact). I don’t think that counts though.
Does it count if I looked at a couple houses with dirt floors while trying to buy? Prices are pretty high here and we have a lot of older houses. However I decided it must have concrete basement floors and no fieldstone walls, which eventually landed me in a “modern” 1946 house
Im talking about a scenario where the person has to walk on dirt floors to get around their home.
My maternal grandparents in New Britain, CT.
My wife’s parents had dirt floors before they moved to America.
Just asked my dad, an uncle in my grandfather’s generation. Right outside of the Omaha, Nebraska area.
My grandparents on both sides
My parents I guess, their toilet it outside.
Does a basement floor count?
I was thinking more like literal dirt floors
That’s what I mean. I mean as opposed to the ground floor being a dirt floor.
I think that would be my great grandmother
My mother currently has dirt floors.
Me
What century is this post from? Even my great great grandparents would have had floors in Victorian London. My dad had an outside toilet growing up, but the floor of it was concrete.
I suppose in developing countries you can find fairly recent examples.
Dirt floors in more rural and remote parts of America were not uncommon through the early part of the 20th century.
Grew up in a house that had a half dirt basement. House was built on a hillside where the topsoil is pretty thin and excavating out bedrock would have been pretty expensive. I suppose im using ‘dirt’ pretty loosely, most of the actual dirt was scoured away before the foundations were poured, so it was really just bare rock.
