Oct. 2010 |
The
Quest for the Silver Bowl. My very first post. |
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First
Day in London – this is a pretty lumpy post, not my best. |
Nov. 2010 |
Two
Versions – the contribution of genealogy to scholarship. |
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Research
Update from Ireland |
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Busted
in Dublin |
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Gratitude
#1 |
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Research
Work in Two Irelands |
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The
Blogging Beast The imperfection that is part of these posts – like
wearing pyjamas in public. |
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Drogheda
and a Perfect Day – seeking the JACKSON Coat of Arms – to no
avail. |
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Curses
and Blessings |
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Chinese
Food in Ireland Fan’s Chinese restaurant is where Samuel BROWNE, linen
merchant carried out his trade in the mid 1800s, and where my great
grandfather – Thompson BROWNE son of Samuel – also resided. |
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Too
Much Food – includes mention of David Jackson’s house in
Leitrim in 1841 |
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The
Picture of Dorian Gray – stories of Clandeboye and BLACKWOODs |
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Till
It’s Gone – the story of a missing gravestone. |
Dec. 2010 |
Random
Acts – Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness |
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JACKSONs
in Memorials of the Dead |
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Gilford
Castle & the Gift of Christine |
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JACKSONs
in the Belfast Newsletter |
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Blogs
and research |
Jan. 2011 |
A
Mysterious Dundalk Cousin |
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No
Success Like Failure |
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The
Voice of Patrick Flynn |
Feb. 2011 |
TJ
and the Story of his Statue |
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In
Defence of Not Knowing – links to 19th C Hong Kong photos |
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Choosing
Rooster Scratches instead of County Louth |
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Organic
Gardening Advice from 1802 – old practices, new soil. |
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1898
Avast the Mast – photos of Irish in 19th C Hong Kong. |
Mar. 2011 |
Memory
is Like Water Personal memory – and a meditation on how this connects
to the political. |
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Memory
is Like Water Part 2 – Memory and a re-evaluation of key
historic incidents in Ireland |
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One
Good Deed Deserves .... |
Apr. 2011 |
Tip
of the Iceberg |
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Sometimes
a Picture: The Dares of Yokohama. |
May 2011 |
A Walk
in the Rain. This jumps from present to past and is a meditation on
community – then and now A meditation on time and place. |
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Stories
From the Graves. Adelaide Fingal Smith |
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My
Web Feet – Quack Quack. This is about how research and connections
work – thanks to the Internet. |
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Knock
Knock – Who’s There. On the power of sharing with respect to research. |
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Facts
and Theories. Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness aka RAOGK. |
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Nature,
Nurture and Family. |
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Reading
Irish History. The importance of perspective. |
Jun. 2011 |
Being
and Irish Tourist & Meeting Turtle Bunbury. |
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Tales
of the Elusive Julius – Part One. |
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Tales
of the Elusive Julius – Part Two. |
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Have
trod, have trod ... Disappointments in research. |
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June
30th. A summing up of some of the month’s events – with
photos. |
Jul. 2011 |
The
Jackson “Connexion”. |
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Crests
and Coats of Arms – 1st in a small series |
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The
Red Hand of Ulster – 2nd in a small series |
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The
Sheldrake and other elements – 3rd in a small series. |
Aug. 2011 |
Lorna
Goodison This is not only about the poetry and memoir written by Lorna
Goodison, but also about Howe Peter BROWNE. |
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Carolan's
Farewell, a novel by Charles Foran based on the life of harpist Turlogh
O’Carolan, one of the last premodern harp composers. |
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How
the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill Doubleday, New York.
A book review |
Sept 2011 |
Pete
of the Glorious Berkshires A tribute to my mentor on townland research. |
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Talk
at Armagh & District History Group An ad for a speech I gave. |
Oct 2011 |
Strongbow
& Deeds My visit to his tomb & the link to JACKSON deeds. |
Nov 2011 |
Thomas
JACKSON Kildare farm - some detective work |
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Original
Jackson – exploring his links to Irish JACKSONs |
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Island
Hall in Godmanchester – the home built by Original JACKSON |
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JACKSONs
and the Samuel Pepys connection |
Dec 2011 |
Thomas
and Samuel Jackson - Pewterers of London – exploring their relationships
with Ireland. |
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Henry
Jackson of Dublin - a 1690 will |
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Goldsmiths,
Jacksons, London, Ireland & some ongoing mysteries – starting with
Alexander Jackson. |
Jan 2012 |
A
couple of "Unchurched Olivers" – a family at Killynure, Co.
Armagh |
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Irregular
Marriages – what I learned from a news article about the controversy
& the part of Rev. Daniel Gunn BROWN[E] |
Feb 2012 |
Nepotism:
Yea or Nay. This is in part a book review of Citizens of The World:
London Merchants and the Integration of the British Atlantic community
1735-1785. David Hancock, and partly a look at Sir Thomas Jackson of
Armagh’s hiring practices at HSBC in the mid to late 1800s. |
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Inching
towards Kildare. This page links to at least a hundred pages of original
compilations of research that I have recently done. |
Apr 2012 |
Jacksons
of Grange, Kings Co, Ireland. These JACKSONs did not stay in one place –
sightings of them range from adjacent counties to America. |
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Imagining
a Parish and its People. Creggan Parish, Co. Armagh |
May 2012 |
Cavananore
– unearthing the tale. Cavananore, a townland of some 219 acres in Co.
Louth, was occupied at least as early as the late 1600s by a Presbyterian
family named Coulter. They were supposedly awarded the land for their valour
at the Battle of the Boyne on the side of King William. |
Jul 2012 |
Handsome
James Jackson of Drogheda. I stumbled upon a description of John Jackson,
son of Alderman Jackson of Drogheda in The Dublin Scuffle. It was
printed in 1699, and written by John Dunton, an eccentric bookseller and even
more eccentric writer. |
Jul 2012 |
Research
bits on Handsome James Jackson. The earliest known ancestor of handsome
James Jackson was Richard Jackson of Drogheda (carpenter, sheriff and
merchant) a man who seems to have been quite successful. His son, another
Richard Jackson, became an Alderman of Drogheda and was also a successful
merchant ... |
Sept 2012 |
Francesca
aka Frances Bertha Marion “Daisy” Sexton. If you were to see Mrs. Noble
in 1890, just after the birth of her youngest child and presiding as
President of the Ladies Recreation Club of Hong Kong, you would think that
the world was her oyster. |
Sept 2012 |
George
Edward Noble. At the peak of his bank career, he was Chief Manager of
HSBC. |
Oct 2012 |
The
Irish Governors of Hong Kong. At least eight Irishmen became Governors of
Hong Kong in the 19th and early 20th Century. Other
governors married Irish women or had other such connections. |
Nov 2012 |
Sir
Robert Ho Tung (1862-1956) Ho Tung was one of Sir
Thomas Jackson’s cherished friends. |
Nov 2012 |
Shameless
Self Promotion #1. Sir Thomas Jackson and The Bank: Not your average
banker. |
Nov 2012 |
Crowd
Sourcing and the Dares. A quick flypast describing Amelia’s brothers and brother-in-laws,
with a focus on their inter-connected business involvements. |
Nov 2012 |
Shameless
Self Promotion #2. The next speaker at the Royal Asiatic Society is an
unusual choice. She failed history in High School, and then steered clear of
all such courses at university. |
Dec 2012 |
500 Words. I
received several emails from people who were unable to attend my talk at the
Royal Asiatic Society in Hong Kong in November, so I promised to publish
parts of it in future blogs. This is the first installment. |
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Flibbertigibbet. A round-about intro to a 1902 description of a banquet in Hong Kong. |
Jan 2013 |
Hong
Kong & Ireland: Two British Colonies. An excerpt from a speech
delivered to the Hong Kong branch of the Royal Asiatic Society in November
2012. |
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A
Hong Kong Embroidery 1902. A
1902 news account described the attempted presentation of this
embroidered scroll to Thomas
Jackson in Hong Kong at a banquet celebrating his life in the Colony. |
Feb 2013 |
The
Land League Hut at Shortstone. I first saw this picture in the
study of Willie Tracey, an elderly farmer who lives and farms at Shortstone,
Co. Louth. |
Apr 2013 |
Jacksons
of Drogheda & Creggan. |
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Last
Day in Ireland – This Time. Description of working in Deeds Registry and
such. |
May 2013 |
Jacksons
of Co. Cavan. Exploring links between JACKSONs of Kildare and the
northern counties of Ireland |
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The
Dog That Didn’t Bark. Research examining some of the supposed origins of
the Irish Quaker JACKSONs |
Jun 2013 |
Woof - Part
One. Following up on the family of Richard JACKSON (1595-1680) of
Westmorland. Link to Jackson Hall, Kirby Lonsdale, now known as The Royal
Hotel, |
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Geekdom Fascinating bits found in Deeds such as the legal arrangements made between
Thomas and Mary Jackson, and John Halpin - a comb maker, because the
Jackson's marriage had come asunder in an time before divorce was an option.. |
Jul 2013 |
Stones
Can Talk - Part I. Some Jacksons in Dublin memorials |
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Stones
Can Talk – Part II. More transcriptions of grave stones. |
Sep 2013 |
Email
Serendipity. The tombstone of Anne Day Woodville in Bekegem, Belgium. She
was the widow of Sir George Jackson (1776-1840), her second husband. Sir
George was born in Coleraine, Co. Londonderry and later also lived at
Forkhill, Co. Armagh. In later life he lived and died in Belgium. |
Nov 2013 |
The
Tale of a Townland. A primer on how to learn much from maps using the
townland of Urcher aka Urker as an example. |
Dec 2013 |
Urker
Lodge. Archival photos compared with contemporary photos and maps. |
Jan 2014 |
Urker
and Sir Thomas Jackson. Linking fairy tales and features which can be
found in the landscape of South Armagh. |
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Creggan
on the Peak. Sir Thomas JACKSON of Creggan parish in south Armagh built a
home in Hong Kong that he named Creggan. |
Feb 2014 |
Thomas
Jackson and the Overland Route. The experience of travelling from England
to Hong Kong before the opening of the Suez canal. |
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Margaret
McMillan. When I was reading her book The War the Ended Peace, it got
me thinking about Prince Henry and his visits with the Jacksons in Hong Kong
in the 1890s. |
Mar 2013 |
The
Sizzle of Connections. A story about the links between the SCOTTs of Singapore
and Sir Walter SCOTT and William Ramsay SCOTT, brother-in-law to Sir Thomas
JACKSON. |
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Whitworth
Allen and Anna Maria Dare. Anna Maria DARE was a sister to Sir Thomas
Jackson’s wife, Amelia Lydia DARE. |
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