The Silver Bowl: Lodowick JACKSON Gleanings

In preparation for an upcoming trip to Co. Cork – an all too brief visit - I am collating bits that may shed light on Lodowick JACKSON Esq. (served in Col Willoughby’s Regiment in 1662) and an Ambrose JACKSON sr. – the possible father or grandfather of Alderman Ambrose JACKSON. My suspicion is that Lodowick and Ambrose sr. will turn out to be close relations of each other - both were in Cork at the same time and were close in age, possibly brothers.

Sharon Oddie Brown. July 19, 2026

Lodowick JACKSON Gleanings and Sources

· For a subsequent – but likely related Ambrose JACKSONs see: Leases held by Ambrose JACKSON. Following the money - in this case the leases of Ambrose JACKSON (NOTE: there was likely more than one Ambrose JACKSON) - is likely to shed light on other JACKSONs who arrived in Co. Cork before him in the 1600s.

· An interesting sidebar, given that Ambrose JACKSON sr served as a soldier with Col. Willoughby in 1662: Royalist and Cromwellian Armies in Flanders: 1657-1662 The largest of all the regiments was that of which the Marquis of Ormond was titular colonel, which was formed in December 1656. It consisted of Irish soldiers who had deserted from the French service, most of who had doubtless formed part of the army which Ormand had commanded in Ireland during the years 1649 and 1650. The real commande of the regiment was Ormond’s lieutenant-colonel Colonel Richard Grace. where Willoughby was described in an appendix: A True Accounte of the Officers of Dunkirke as a towne major, a gamester, a drunkard, and a whoremonger, with whom it is common to hazard a hundred pounds in one night: likewise an associate of the false money-merchants, and if nott a condferderate, yet a favourer of them. And further an enemie to the present power, for upon the charge hee declared openly for the Protector, and spake evily of the army and their proceedings, calling them rogues, hee is a hater of godlynesse and an enemy to the professors of religion . NOTE: This account sounds like a Royalist soldier writing about a Cromwellian soldier. The two forces had merged when in France, likely not seamlessly.

· SEE: Jacksons of Canterbury & Nantwich England and Co. Cork, Ireland. This Family tree starts in Lancashire with the 1571 birth of Rev. Thomas JACKSON. He became the prebendary of Canterbury Cathedral and was a grandfather of Lodowick JACKSON of Youghall Co. Cork who served as a customs and paymaster in the mid-1600s. In the 1640s, Rev. Thomas experienced financial set-backs and had to retrench. The financial circumstances of his family was like many of their class whose sons lived in Ireland and worked as merchants, military, clerics, or government officials.

· SEE: The council book of the Corporation of Youghal, from 1610 to 1659, from 1666 to 1687, and from 1690 to 1800 ... Ed. from the original, with annals and appendices compiled from public and private records, by Richard Caulfield.

· 1634 Estimated birth date of Lodowicke JACKSON. Born London, England. SOURCE: Email Jan 11, 2020 Jan Waugh.

· 1647 Probate of Will of Rev Thomas JACKSON I doe give to my grandsonne Lodowick Jackson, the sonne of Richard Jackson, one annuetie of eight poundes towards his maintenance and quarterly to be paid duringe his naturall life

· 1655/66. National Archives UK record Lodowick JACKSON as a witness to land deal between Francis Drake & Thomas Brough in 1655/6: Property as in MS. GLY/297. Recites (i) that Sir John Trevor has conveyed the premises to Thomas Harler and John Kersey, gent., in trust for (a) by deed of even date; (ii) that by deed, 22 October 1651, the premises were conveyed from the Trustee of the late parliament for the sale of lands of the late king, to John Reyner, Thomas Brough and William Stebbing; (iii) Sir John Trevor has delivered this deed to (a) who agrees to deliver copies to (b), pay the costs and exhibit the original when required. Witnesses: Lodowicke Jackson, Samuel Gilpin. NOTE: There may be a JACKSON-GILPIN connection in the family of Lodowick JACKSON: 1661 Mar. 24 William Jackson, of Croydon, Surrey, Yeoman, Bachr, about 25, & Anne Gillpin, of same, Spr, about 20; consent of father John Gillpin, of same, Gent.; at St Bennet, Paul's Wharf.

· 1662 April 19 Lodowicke Jackson, of St Andrew's, Holborn, Gent., Bachr, about 28, & Mary Crimes, of same, Spr, about 17; consent of her mother, now ux. St [? Sir] Andrew Knifton, Kt., of Holborn afsd; at S^t Clement Danes, St Mary Magdalene, Old Fish St, or St Mary Somerset. Allegations for Marriages issued by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, 1558 to 1699; also for those issued by the Vicar-General of the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1660 to 1679. Col. Joseph Lemuel Chester, ed. George J. Armytage. London 1886. Publication of The Harleian Society. NOTE: I believe this is the Lodowick JACKSON who was a grandson of Thomas JACKSON (Prebendary of Canterbury). And the Lodowick JACKSON was residing in Cork, Ireland in 1666 when his daughter Elizabeth JACKSON was born and died.

· 1665, Lodowick JACKSON witnessed an indenture from 1665, signed in the margin by Tho; Evelyn and Fra. Drake. SOURCE: Some Special Sources in genealogy: The Genealogy of the Submerged. Chas. A. Bernau. London, 1908.

· 1664 Lodowick JACKSON to Ormond written from Youghall MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 7 2 February 1664. Reports the circumstances under which a Cadiz wine-ship (bound for an English or Irish port) was boarded by a "Turkish man-of war" [meaning an Algerine corsair], which had previously captured a French vessel bound for Cadiz, on board of which they had found "a person that was an instrument in the late King's death", together with his wife. Adds that these captives have been carried into Algiers, and that some of the seamen think, from the description given, that the person so taken is Ludlow. SOURCE: National Archives, UK.

· 1666 St. Mary’s Parish Yougal, Co Cork. Christened June 8, 1666 Elizabeth daughter of Lodowicke JACKSON. Burial June 11, 1666 Elizabeth daughter of Lodowicke JACKSON . SOURCE Vol III Memorials of the dead.

· 1666, July 21, George Lane wrote from Dublin Castle to Lodowick JACKSON directing the sending of a letter from Ormond to Captain Hooper to Youghal. SOURCE: Bodleian Library Carte 44.

· 1681 Lodowick JACKSON Collector for Youghall.

· 1682 Jan 2. It. That Mr. Mayor sue Lodowick Jackson, Esq. , lately Collector of Youghal, for money extracted from the Corporation under colour of excise and custom for the wreck brandy . SOURCE: The council book of the Corporation of Youghal, from 1610 to 1659, from 1666 to 1687, and from 1690 to 1800 ... Ed. from the original, with annals and

· appendices compiled from public and private records, by Richard Caulfield.

· 1681, October 8. LODOWICK JACKSON TO ORMOND. Youghal. — Announcing the arrival of a small bark from St. Martino with forty-eight persons, who fled, as they say, from persecution. They are very poor and accept of the charity of well-disposed persons. He took Lieutenant Hamilton, one of the Scotch officers, to his assistance in an examination which he encloses. Abstract. SOURCE: Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Marquess of Ormonde. Preserved at Kilkenny Castle New Series, Vol VI. London 1911

· 1682, July 22. Dublin. FARMERS OF THE REVENUE TO EARL OF ARRAN.— Among the assignments drawn by us for the last March pay which was lately issued Capt. Charles Murray being assigned on Mr. Lodowick Jackson of Youghal for his three months pay, required an absolute acceptance to be paid at the very day, which the collector not being satisfied to do otherwise than usually, he hath by a public notary protested the assignment. SOURCE: Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Marquess of Ormonde. Preserved at Kilkenny Castle New Series, Vol VI. London 1911

· 1683 Carte Calendar Volume 59, 1683 Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

o Proposals for the Imposition of Stamp Duties, in Ireland, for advancement of his Majesty's Revenue. By Lodowick Jackson Apparently, addressed to Richard, Earl of Arran, Lord Deputy.

o Appended thereto:- Reasons for promoting the Propositions [of Stamp-Duties, in Ireland. By Lodowick Jackson]. Date: [1683?]

· 1683, April 10. LODOWICK JACKSON TO ORMOND. Youghal. — Concerning the suspension of his contingent employment since the 25th of December last. The present Managers will not consent to restore him unless he accepts of Dungarvan, a place void of business and of conversation. He refers to having offered Mr. Greatrax as a surety. Without his Grace's protection this usage must turn to his ruin for his great and untainted reputation is blasted, and his Grace's poor old servant is now to begin again in a worse condition than when he came over with his Grace. He relies on his Grace's wonted goodness to recommend him to a service in his Grace's family, wherein his wife, being one of the daughters of Sir George Gwynn, Baronet, would be glad of the honour to assist her Grace as a confectioner. His son, whom he has kept at Kilkenny School, is fitted by his small growth, and other education, to wait on his Grace or his Lady Duchess as page, or to attend on Lord Ossory in his travels. He presumes this because Lady Thurles told him his mother was nearly related to her. Abstract. Calendar of the manuscripts of the Marquess of Ormonde, K. P., preserved at Kilkenny castle. Preserved at Kilkenny Castle New Series, Vol VI. London 1911. p 11. NOTE: This raises several questions that I cannot answer.

o Did Lodowick JACKSON have a falling out with James BUTLER (1610-1688), Marquess of Ormond?

o Was his health failing enough that he could not carry out his duties or were there differnces of policy. Perhaps recommendations re: Stamp duties?

o Did Lodowick JACKSON have a 2^nd wife, daughter of Sir George GWYNN?

o Did Lodowick JACKSON end up in Dungarvin, Co. Waterford for a while?

· July 1685. Same by same to same of the petition of Lodowick Jackson for some employment [in the Customs]; he having been Comptroller and sub-collector of Youghal port under three farms [of the Irish revenue] but forced to come to England for his health. Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 8, 1685-1689. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1923.

· 1686 In a letter dated 1686, a Lodowick JACKSON wrote to Robert BOYLE about his gout. He was 53 years old at the time of the letter, and lived at Mistress Haughtons over against the New well by Hoxdon Square. The Correspondence of Robert Boyle, ed. Michael Hunter et al. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001). Vol 6 pp.191-4. SOURCE: NOTE: This age of 53 in this letter lines up with the age of a Lodowick JACKSON who married a Mary GRIMES. Quoted in Writing Illness and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Britain. David Thorley. Palgrave, MacMillan. 2016 (NOTE: Also available on line as Thorley’s thesis in 2013):

o In 1686, Lodowick Jackson wrote to Boyle with a similarly detailed medical history [similar to Gale]. He had been afflicted with the Gout, or Rhumatism, almost in every Joynt” … insisting, ‘I am not unknown to your Honorable family’, although he did not elaborate on how he was acquainted with the Boyles. His appeal to Boyle was made on philosophical terms rather than personal, enclosing a printed ‘Advertisement for Hoxdon Wells’, and announcing his hope to give Boyle ‘an experienced Satisfaction, touching the nature and operation of these waters’. Jackson’s case history is similarly detailed to Gale’s, reporting each day how much of the well water he has drunk and the stools and urine that resulted. As well as drinking the water, he reports, ‘I also bathe my feet and knees in the water mixt with my urin, but find little good as yet by either’. Like Gale, he has a specific question for Boyle: ‘Now Sir my humble, request is, that you vouchsafe me your oppinion, for my better Government while I stay here, and what other observations, I shall make for your satisfaction either by my drinkeing A Lesse or Larger quantity, or what other rules you thinke propper. NOTE: Robert Boyle was a contemporary of Lodowick, and had Irish roots.

· September 10, 1688. London LODOWICK JACKSON TO ORMONDE..—Concerning his misfortunes. When his Grace's grandfather first entertained him of his family, he left a considerable station in Gray's Inn, recommended by Sir Robert Poyntz, as the son of his Grace's near kinswoman. He continued about twenty-four years in his Grace's favour, and served in several capacities in three farms of the Irish revenue. As his Grace's favourite he became obnoxious and was suspended. He came to London full of infirmities, sick and lame, and could never get employ. Abstract Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Marquess of Ormonde. K.P. Preserved at Kilkenny Castle. New Series, Vol. VIII. 1911 p2.

· 1688, December 31 LODOWICK JACKSON TO ORMONDE..—Concerning a loan which he was negotiating for his Grace. He asks his Grace to countenance a proposal which he is presenting to the Prince of Orange. It was approved by his Majesty, Lord Rochester, and his Grace's grandfather and probably would have taken good effect if the last Parliament had not been dissolved. Abstract. Abstract Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Marquess of Ormonde. K.P. Preserved at Kilkenny Castle. New Series, Vol. VIII. 1911 p 13.

· April 22 1689. Lodowick Jackson for some Customs place [in England] during the ill circumstances in Ireland where he has been employed in several capacities in the revenue. SOURCE: British History Online. Calendar of Treasury Books. Volume 9 1689-1692. Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 9, 1689-1692. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1931

· Aug 13, 1689. Same to the Customs Commissioners to employ Lodowick Jackson (who has gone through some considerable offices in the Revenue in Ireland) as collector of Weymouth port loco Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 9, 1689-1692. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1931.

· January 1692. Proceedings upon the petition of Lodowick Jackson, gent., aged and afflicted with the gout, for license to execute the…[NOTE: I do not have access to the details] Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary, 1691-2. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1900.

· July 5, 1700 Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to employ Thomas Bower (present collector of Dartmouth) as Collector of Weymouth loco Lodowick Jackson lately deceased; Thomas Jenkinson (Collector of Bridgwater) as Collector of Dartmouth loco said Bower; William Cornish (present collector of Lancaster port) as Collector at Bridgwater loco said Jenkinson; Thomas Jans (the collector's clerk at Hull) as Collector at Lancaster loco said Cornish. Out Letters (Customs) XIV, p. 88. Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 15, 1699-1700. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1933.

· 1701. Journals of the House of Commons, Volume 9. Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. A Lodowick JACKSON was listed as a customs collector for Wemouth in February 21, 1701

· 1714-1715 British History On Line. Declared Accounts: Customs, Wines and Vinegar. Dartmouth (Lodowick Jackson, money) £35.8.2¼ NOTE: This is a later Lodowick JACKSON – possibly a son of the first Lodowick.

· 1717 British History on Line. Customs, Tobacco DECLARED ACCOUNTS: CUSTOMS: TOBACCO: GENERAL ACCOUNT. AUDIT OFFICE: DECLARED ACCOUNTS: BUNDLE 647, ROLL 254 [A.O.1/647/254]. Robert Hunter, Comptroller General of Customs. 25 December 1716 to 25 December 1717. Scilley. (Lodowick Jackson) £4 15 9¾ . NOTE: This is a later Lodowick JACKSON – possibly a son of the first Lodowick.

· 1741-1742 In a future generation, there is a Lodowick JACKSON who is likely related to the Lodowick JACKSON who died in 1700. In 1742 George Calvert was an appraiser of the estate of Lodowick Jackson. Prince William County, Virginia, America. SEE: 1741 Will of Lodowick JACKSON.

· 1907 A Quaker JACKSON researcher, William Jackson Piggot, was curious about him in 1907 – likely because there were many JACKSONs who were Quakers in Cork. While I understand the interest, it would be unlikely that Lodowick JACKSON was a Quaker.

· In Oxford Journal Notes and Queries Nov 16, 1907 p388 : LODOWICKE JACKSON – Can any English of Irish correspondent of N & Q give me genealogical particulars of this family of Lodowicke Jackson. His daughter Elizabeth was baptised in St. Mary’s Church, Yoghall, Co. Cork on 8 June 1666, and interred there 1667. Could he have been a son of Anthony Jackson, who was interred in the Temple Church, London in 1666? Wm. Jackson Piggot. Manor House, Dundrum, Co. Down

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