A Jackson line in Coleraine
Some of my sources may be more reliable than others so all should be checked and double checked. Also, there are records where the known facts don’t match up and I have made a few judgement calls. I am including the conflicting evidence in the hopes that others can sort me out.
At present, there are also some sources that I am totally discounting for the moment – primarily those JACKSON pedigrees that focus on the alleged lineage of these JACKSONs to the American president, Andrew JACKSON and/or the celebrated Stonewall JACKSON.
The key source that I started with was T.G.F. Patterson’s Notebook #5. It is held at the Armagh Archives. Ballykeel A Narrow Townland, Eugene McCann. [Creggan: Journal of The Creggan Historical Society, 1997-98. No. 8.] built on Patterson’s work and seemed likely to be more accurate on some points. Then a will of Samuel JACKSON (d 1706) revealed several more connections which led me to BMDs in Yorkshire.
The above named sources led me to The registers of the parish church of Whittington in the County of Lancaster. Christenings, burials, and weddings, 1538 to 1764 which revealed that Richard JACKSON, rector of Whittington, Yorkshire, had the following children:
One or more of these above named JACKSON children of Richard (or another unnamed sibling) were the parents of a Robert JACKSON House in Mary Lane. (NOTE: a Rev. John JACKSON was a brother-in-law, so these sons could be the sons of either a female or a male JACKSON).
Finally, a major contribution to the accuracy of this tree came from Linde Lunney who introduced me to a fascinating book: Coleraine in by-gone centuries, Rev. T.H. Mullin. D.D., Century Services, 1976. Until then, I had been building this JACKSON tree branch by branch, pretty much in the dark. This book showed me where several of my mismatched twigs actually connected to branches (which in some cases, I had attached to the trunk either too early or too late). The version beneath represents considerable change from the first posting. It has also now been merged into the version that I update at Rootsweb.
Descendants of Richard Jackson
1 Richard Jackson[1] was born at Kirby, Lonsdale, Co. Westmoreland[2], England abt 1602. He died some time after the birth of his last recorded child in 1666 in possibly Yorkshire, England. He was the rector of Whittington[3]. He married firstly Dorothy OTWAY[4] November 27, 1627. They had 5 known children.
........ 2 William Jackson[5] d: 1688 in of Coleraine, Co. Londonderry married firstly Elizabeth Staples[6] who died without issue. He married secondly Susan Beresford[7]
NOTE: She married secondly John Mitchelburn[8] and d: Aft. 1715 but this second marriage had no issue. The children of William Jackson and Susan Beresford were:
................... 3 William Jackson[9] d: 1712 He married Elizabeth Georges[10] of Kilbrew, CO. Meath in1695. She died 1747
............................. 4 William Jackson[11] b: 1708 d: 1746. He married Frances Eyre[12] in 1729
........................................ 5 John Jackson[13]
........................................ 5 Coningsby Jackson[14]
........................................ 5 Richard Jackson[15] b: 1726 d: Abt. 1789 in lived at Coleraine, Co. Derry, Ireland. He married firstly Lydia Richardson[16] who died in childbirth and left no issue. He married secondly Anne O'Neil[17]
.................................................. 6 George Jackson[18] b: 19 Jan 1776 d: in lived at Forkhill, Co. Armagh. He married Anne Day Woordville[19] on 10 Sep 1814
.................................................. 6 Robert Jackson [20]
.................................................. 6 Mary Jane Jackson[21]
.................................................. 6 Anne Jackson[22] d: Aug 1837. She married Nathaniel Alexander[23] on 18 May 1785 b: 12 Aug 1760 d: 21 Oct 1840 NOTE: Their children’s information all came from www.thepeerage.com
....................................................... 7 Richard Jackson Alexander[24] d: 1810
....................................................... 7 Anne Alexander[25] d: 23 Jul 1869
....................................................... 7 Elizabeth Rebecca Alexander[26] d: 1860
....................................................... 7 Henrietta Frances Alexander[27] d: 09 Jul 1885
....................................................... 7 Robert Alexander[28] b: 19 Jun 1788 d: 31 Jul 1840
....................................................... 7 James Alexander[29] b: 22 Jul 1794 d: 02 Apr 1857
....................................................... 7 Nathaniel Alexander[30] b: 06 Dec 1796 d: 14 Oct 1880
....................................................... 7 Henry Alexander[31] b: 16 Feb 1803 d: 01 Dec 1877
....................................................... 7 George Alexander[32] b: 20 Jan 1805 d: 1887
....................................................... 7 William Stuart Alexander[33] b: 29 Oct 1807 d: 09 Jul 1883
....................................................... 7 Jane Mary Alexander[34] b: 1810 d: 21 Feb 1885
.................................................. 6 Richard Jackson[35] d. 1797
.................................................. 6 Harriet Elizabeth Anne Jackson[36]
........................................ 5 Elizabeth Barton Jackson[37]
........................................ 5 Jane Mary Jackson[38] married Edward Golding[39]
............................. 4 Dorothy Jackson[40] d: 1740 married John Bell aka Ball[41] in 1723
............................. 4 Gorges Jackson[42]
............................. 4 Elizabeth Jackson[43] married Francis Howard[44]
........................................ 5 Gorges Edmund Howard[45]
.................................................. 6 Anne Howard[46] married Hamilton Gorges[47] b 1711 d. 08 a\Apr 1786 of Kilbrew, Co. Meath.
....................................................... 7 Elizabeth Gorges[48] d. 1816 married Thomas Vicars[49] abt 1796
............................. 4 Jane Mary Jackson[50] married James Innis[51] of Coleraine, Co. Londonderry
............................. 4 Susan Jackson[52] married John Hamiton[53]
............................. 4 Arabella? Jackson[54] aka Araminta Jackson married Raphael Caulfield[55].
................... 3 Thomas Jackson[56] b: 1680 married Margaret Beresford[57] in 1715. He died 24 Mar 1751. He served in the Irish House of Commons.
............................. 4 Henry Jackson[58] b: 1718
............................. 4 Margaret Jackson[59] b: Bet. 1718 - 1726 She married Col. Adam Downing[60] b: 1666 d: 1719
........................................ 5 John Downing[61]
............................. 4 Richard Jackson[62] b 1726 d 23 Oct 1789 – lived at Coleraine, Co, Derry
................... 3 Richard Jackson[63] married Elizabeth Boyd[64]
............................. 4 Richard Jackson[65] b: Abt. 1722 d: 11 Jun 1787. He married Nichola Ann Cecil Hamilton[66] d: in Abt 1804
............................. 4 Susan Jackson[67] d: Abt. 1805. She married an Unnamed Barton[68] in 1750 He d: Bef. 1766
........................................ 5 Juliana Eliza Barton[69]. She married John Ogle[70] in 1791
............................. 4 Hugh Jackson[71]
............................. 4 Beresford Jackson[72]
............................. 4 Anne Jackson[73]
................... 3 Beresford Jackson[74] of Bellymargy, Co. Londonderry
................... 3 John Jackson[75]
................... 3 Dorothy Jackson[76]
................... 3 Rose Jackson[77] may have been a wife of Thomas Bunbury[78] (1673-1743) of Lisnavagh, Co. Carlow.
................... 3 Jane Jackson[79]. She married Henry Wray. SEE: WRAY descendants of Jane JACKSON
................... 3 Samuel Jackson[80]
................... 3 Otway Jackson[81]
........ 2 Thomas Jackson[82] b. Sept 13, 1629.
........ 2 John Jackson[83] b. Dec 26 1630
........ 2 Samuel Jackson[84] b. 1631 d: 1706 in Dublin was a wealthy merchant and was also the second member of Parliament representing Coleraine, Londonderry in the Irish House of Commons from 1695-1703.
........ 2 Francis JACKSON[85] in 1649
Richard Jackson then married secondly an unnamed Jane who gave birth to Leonard in 1650. NOTE: Since I don’t know when the Dorothy OTWAY died, I don’t know when to start assigning children born before 1650 (the birth of Leonard). Marie, Daniel and Jane could be of either wife.
........ 2 Marie Jackson[86] b: Abt. 1642
........ 2 Daniel Jackson[87] b: Abt. 1644 It would be interesting to learn more about him since there are also sightings of a Rev. Daniel JACKSON in Creggan Parish.
........ 2 Jane Jackson[88] b: Abt. 1648
........ 2 Leonard Jackson[89] b 21 April 1650 at Whittington, Yorkshire, England Died abt 1734 at Tatham[90], Yorkshire, England
........ 2 Mary Jackson[91] b: Abt. 1653
........ 2 Abigail Jackson[92] b: Abt. 1655. She likely married a Rowland Burrow[93] in 26 Feb 1675
........ 2 Rodger Jackson[94] b: Abt. 1666
[1] Richard JACKSON became Rector of Whittington in 1641, July 26. SOURCE: The registers of the parish church of Whittington in the County of Lancaster. Christenings, burials, and weddings, 1538 to 1764 http://www.archive.org/stream/registersofparis00whit/registersofparis00whit_djvu.txt Another source is the genealogy done by John Cameron Ward at http://www.wardjc.com/people/p000017p.htm#I17137
[2] Co. Westmoreland. The historic county boundaries of Westmoreland are with Cumberland to the north, County Durham and Yorkshire to the east, and Lancashire to the south and west. Hence, in some histories, the family is alleged to have come from Yorkshire or Lancashire - the boundaries at the time were somewhat flexible and not always exactly as we have them now.
[3] WHITTINGTON— not to be confused with Withington, near Manchester, nor Whittingham, near Preston — is a pretty village situate in extreme North-East Lancashire, about one-and- a-half miles from Kirkby Lonsdale. Its Church, dedicated to S. Michael, is known to have been in existence in the fourteenth century. The Parish of Whittington comprises 4,327 acres, including the townships of Newton, Docker, and Whittington, and contains a population of 339. The adjoining parishes on the Westmoreland side are Burton and Kirkby Lonsdale, and on the Lancashire side Tunstall, Melling, and Warton. The Parish Registers share, with Whalley and Farnworth (near Widnes), the honour of commencing in 1538 — the year appointed by Vicar-General Cromwell. SOURCE: The registers of the parish church of Whittington in the County of Lancaster. Christenings, burials, and weddings, 1538 to 1764 Printed for the Lancashire Parish Register Society, by James Clegg, at the Aldine Press. 1899. The registers of the parish church of Whittington in the County of Lancaster. Christenings, burials, and weddings, 1538 to 1764
http://www.archive.org/stream/registersofparis00whit/registersofparis00whit_djvu.txt
[4] Dorothy OTWAY. Her name was given in the biography of her son Francis. SOURCE: Biographical register of Christ's College, 1505-1905: and of the earlier foundation, God's House, 1448-1505 Vol I. compiled by John Peile, p526.
[5] William JACKSON died 1688 probably at Coleraine, Co. Londonderry
· 18 Sept 1688 of Commission to swear Susanna JACKSON widow & executrix of will of W. JACKSON of Coleraine esq in trust for his minor children William, Richards, Beresfors [probably “Beresford”], John, Thomas, Dorothy, Rose & Jane directed to Richard LYNAM, Patrick GORAN & Henry ARKWRIGHT - all of Coleraine.). SOURCE: (1) Probated Will., (2) T.G.F. Patterson, Notebook # 5 Page 21 –
· He was the MP for Londonderry. William Jackson stood in the 1697 by-election for county Londonderry which followed the death of George Philips MP. Although the election was won by James Lennox, Mayor of Londonderry, Jackson overturned the result and had himself declared MP for the county SOURCE: http://www.lynx2ulster.com/Siege/newinfo.php?PersonalID=65
· Curiously, in one source, his mother’s name is given as Dorothy OTWAY. Jackson -- Coleraine, County Londonderry; fun. Established 1688, William Jackson, son of Rev. Richard Jackson of Whittington County Lancaster by Dorothy Otway wife, daughter of Sir John Otway knight of Ingmire. Gu a fess betw. Three cormorants ar. I suspect that she was already dead and his father’s second wife was his mother. SOURCE: The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.Vol II. Bernard Burke.
[6] Elizabeth STAPLES
[7] Susan BERESFORD She was the wife of William JACKSON and the daughter of SIR TRISTAN BERESFORD. She died Aft. 1715
· This morning Sam Jackson Esq. died, 'tis said he was worth £30,000 which he left to his two nephews. About half an hour after, Madam Mitchelburn, sister to the said Jackson, died in the same house. FOOTNOTE to this article: Richard Mitchelburne, Dublin, gent, whose will is dated 31 Jan. 1715 (Eustace, Registry of Deeds Dublin, Abstracts of Wills, vol. I, p. 79), was married to Mary Jackson; she, however, was still alive in 1715.). SOURCE: Announcements in Impartial Occurrences, JAN. 1705—FEB. 1706 by H. F. MORRIS, LL.B., M.A., PH.D. 4. Tues. 15-19 Jan 1706. p. 189 of The Irish Genealogist Vol 5, No 2, 1975.]
[8] John MITCHELBURN.(1647-1721)
· Col. John Mitchelburne—the well-known defender of Derry during the siege of 1690 and Governor of the fort of Sligo 1691-3, who m., in 1690,Susanna, widow of William Jackson, of Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, and dau. of Sir Tristram Beresford, 2nd Bart, (ancestor of the Marquesses of Waterford). He lost his wife and all his children seven in number during the siege. SOURCE: The Irish Genealogist.
· MICHELBORNE, MITCHELBURN, or MICHELBURNE, JOHN (1647-1721), governor of Londonderry, son of Abraham Michelborne by his first wife, Penelope, daughter of John Wheeler of Droitwich (see BERRY, Sussex Genealogies, p. 50), was baptised on 8 Jan. 1647-8 at Horsted Keynes in Sussex. He was of an ancient family long settled there and at Stanmer, and Sir Richard Michelborne of Bradhurst was his grandfather. After serving under Percy Kirke [q. v.] at Tangier between 1680 and 1683, he had a major's commission from the Prince of Orange dated 5 Feb. 1689, and in the same month took part in the attempt on Carrickfergus. He commanded Skeffington's regiment of foot at Cladyford and during the siege of Londonderry. When Governor Baker fell ill on 17 June 1689 he deputed Mitchelburn to act for him, and at his death ten days later named him governor SOURCE: Dictionary of National Biography volume 37, p343-344 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Dictionary_of_National_Biography_volume_37.djvu/344 NOTE: I believe this publication is in error when it states: His second wife is believed to have been the daughter of another defender, Captain Michael Cunningham of Prehen, Londonderry.
[9] William JACKSON.
[10] Elizabeth GORGES
[11] William JACKSON In 1695 William Jackson of Coleraine married Elizabeth Georges daughter of Robert George's. His will was proved in 1722. He was the first of the family to own the Forkhill estate. He left a son, William of Forkhill, who in 1729 married Frances only child of George EYRE of Eyrecourt and his wife Lady Barbara. William died in 1746. SOURCE: Ballykeel: A Narrow Townland, Eugene McCann. Creggan: Journal of The Creggan Historical Society, 1997-98. No. 8.
[12] Frances EYRE
[13] John JACKSON
[14] Coningsby JACKSON
[15] Richard JACKSON ) (Source: (1) Notes, B.A. 1749 M.P. Coleraine 1775 Probate will 1789., (2) TGF Patterson Notebook 5, 1, BA 1749 M.A. 1752 P.C. M.P. Coleraine 1751-89.) was born 1726, and died Abt. 1789 in lived at Coleraine, Co. Derry, Ireland (Source: www.thepeerage.com.). He married ANNE O'NEIL, daughter of CHARLES O'NEIL.
[16] Lydia RICHARDSON
[17] Anne O’NEIL, daughter of Charles O’NEIL. NOTE: I don’t know if there is a link, but in an article in The Irish Genealogist: Material For A McNeale Pedigree, There is mention of a Daniel MCNEILL, Doctor of Medicine, Monaghan. Son Henry. Nephews Revd. Daniel and John McNeill. Cousin Mrs. Eliza Brother, John McNeill. Cousin Luke Jackson. Dated 31 Jan. 1787. Proved 11 March 1788. (Prerog. Will).
[18] George JACKSON (Source: John Drebett, The Baronetage of England, created Bart. 21 Apr 1813 NOTE some aspects of Drebbets don't add up, so I have not used them.), b. 19 Jan 1776 (Source: John Drebett, The Baronetage of England.); d. lived at Forkhill, Co. Armagh (Source: www.thepeerage.com.); m. ANNE DAY WOORDVILLE (Source: John Drebett, The Baronetage of England.), 10 Sep 1814. Notes for SIR GEORGE JACKSON: Created Baronet 3 Nov 1812 d.s.p. Feb. 1840
Notes for ANNE DAY WOORDVILLE: This may have been a second marriage for her as she has a son Alexander by the looks of it - either before or after her marriage to JACKSON
[19] Anne Day WOORDVILLE
[20] Robert JACKSON He was supporting the Royal Forces and accompanied his uncle, John O'Neil. On June 7, 1798 "One of the prisoners was a Lieutenant- Colonel Jackson 'in the uniform of his Regiment of the line'. Jackson told him they come into town with Lord O'Neill, 'in Lord O'Neill's curricle', and that some men had rushed O'Neill and run two pikes into his body. SOURCE: The Summer Soldiers: The 1798 Rebellion in Antrim and Down. A.T.Q. Stewart. Blackstaff Press, Belfast. 1995.
[21] Mary JACKSON
[22] Anne JACKSON
[23] Nathaniel ALEXANDER. SOURCE: www.thepeerage.com
[24] Richard Jackson Alexander
[25] Anne Alexander
[26] Elizabeth Rebecca Alexander
[27] Henrietta Frances Alexander
[28] Robert Alexander
[29] James Alexander
[30] Nathaniel Alexander
[31] Henry Alexander
[32] George Alexander
[33] William Stuart Alexander
[34] Jane Mary Alexander
[35] Richard Jackson
[36] Harriet Elizabeth Anne Jackson
[37] Elizabeth Barton Jackson
[38] Jane Mary Jackson
[39] Edward Golding
[40] Dorothy JACKSON NOTE: I need to find where I sourced the dates that I did.
[41]John BELL. NOTE: Country Louth Cromwellian confiscations – Upper Fews shows that Thomas BELL owned Tullyvallen – for the use of Daniel and Sarah JACKSON.
[42] Gorges JACKSON
[43] Elizabeth JACKSON
[44] Francis Howard
[45] Gorges Edmund Howard
[46] Anne Howard
[47] Hamilton Gorges
[48] Elizabeth Gorges
[49] Thomas Vicars
[50] Jane JACKSON
[51] James Innis
[52] Susan JACKSON
[53] John Hamiton
[54] Arabella JACKSON
[55] Raphael Caulfield
[56] Thomas JACKSON (Source: TGF Patterson Notebook 5, of Coleraine BA 1702 Called to Irish bar 1710.) was born 1680. He married MARGARET BERESFORD Sister to the Marquis of Waterford.) 1715 (Source: John Drebett, The Baronetage of England,.
[57] Margaret Beresford
[58] Henry JACKSON
[59] Margaret JACKSON.
[60] Adam DOWNING, Colonel SOURCE: Pedigree of Fullerton of Ballintory (?) Bank L.G. 1912
SOURCE: A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of
the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland Vol. 1 A-L. John Burke,
Esq. London 1847, p.453 Col. Adam Downing, who went over to Ireland's
William III, and held the rank of colonel in his army. He was present at the
siege of Derry, and there gave early and signal proofs of his courage.
Subsequently he raised a body of men at his own expense, and served during the
war in Ireland, participating in the battle of the Boyne, and contribute eminently, by his gallantry and skill, to the
success of the party with which he was engaged. For these services he received
the appointments of deputy governor of the County of Derry, Colonel of the
militia, and one of the commissioners of array, and was also granted by his
royal master a large tract of land in the County of Derry, still possessed by
his descendent. He married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Jackson, Esq. of
Coleraine, ancestor of Sir George Jackson, Bart, by Margaret Beresford, of a
noble family of Waterford, and had a son and successor.
John Downing, Esq. of Dawsons Bridge, who
inherited the spirit of his father, and raised, during the rebellion of 1745,
at considerable expense, a body of men to serve his King and country in a
moment of great difficulty and danger. He married Margaret, daughter and heir
of the Rev. J. ROWE, D.D., descended from an ancient Devonshire family, and had
three sons namely,
Clotworthy, his heir who had two sons
John and Giffard. The latter a military officer, was
severely wounded at Corunna.
John who served in Germany and D. S. P.
Dawson of whose line we have to treat.
[61] John DOWNING
[62] Richard JACKSON. (1726-1789) BA 1749 M.A. 1752 P.C. M.P. Coleraine 1751-89. SOURCE: TGF Patterson Notebook 5. OTHER SOURCES: privy-councillor, M.P. Coleraine 1775 Probate will 1789
[63] Richard JACKSON
[64] Unnamed BOYD. She was a sister of Col. Hugh Boyd of Bally Castle (will proved 1731) they had a son, also Richard born in 1722. He purchased Forkhill estate some years previous to his uncle's death. SOURCE: Ballykeel: A Narrow Townland, Eugene McCann. Creggan: Journal of The Creggan Historical Society, 1997-98. No. 8.
[65]Richard JACKSON
· SOURCE: T.G.F. Patterson, Notebook # 5: 1789 May 25 29 George III. Cap 3 Act of Parliament establishing trust of Richard Jackson of Forkhill. Wife, Nichola Ann JACKSON. He d. June 11, 1787 without issue. Sister, Susanna BARTON (nee JACKSON). Of interest to me is the mention of Thomas REID “late of Dundalk but now of the city of Bath, Esq.”(p. 5) as one of the “surviving executors”. JACKSON had a manor in Forkhill and the manor of Castle Hamilton in Co. Cavan. He also gives money to Ann BOYD of Wexford and after her decease to her nephew, his godson. He also made a donation to Armagh Infirmary “for the good of my poor fellow creatures who are destroyed by the advice of Quack Doctors”. Nichola Ann JACKSON was living in the townland of Carrickasticken (where the manor of Forkhill was located). .,
· SOURCE: Kyla Madden, Forkhill Protestants - Forkhill Catholics, 1787-1858, McGill-Queens University Press, 2005, 167, Richard Jackson was a Freemason and a fervent Protestant who bequeathed a generous legacy to further Protestant missionary work in India. He served as high Sheriff for County of Armagh in 1760 and was appointed deputy master of the Masonic Lodge in Ulster in 1768. Jackson died in 1787 at age 65 (papers relating to Jackson and his Forkhill estate, T. 1722, PRONI; Freeman's Journal, 11 June 1768.) The Right Hon. Richard Jackson was one of the original trustees of the Forkhill estate and attended their first meeting on 1 August 1789. He died shortly afterwards and was replaced by Walter Synnot (1 August 1789 and 3 July 1790, minutes of the proceedings of the trustees of the charitable donations of Richard Jackson ofForkhill, Esq. ..., Vol 1, 1789 -- 1830. .,
· SOURCE: James B Leslie, Armagh Clergy, Richard Jackson of Forkill House, the Founder of the Forkill Charities which bear his name, erected the church in 1767 (site granted by deed Aug.3) on the estate purchased by him in 1742. It was consecrated by the Bishop of Dromore for the Primate Sep. 7, 1785. By Act of the Lord Lieutenant in Council on 20 Dec, 1771 12 townlands were severed from Loughgilly and formed into the Parish of Forkill, with the permission and at the request of the Rector of Loughgilly. On May 7, 1773, 11 townlands of Killeavy were annexed to Forkill, and these 23 T.L., about 20 square miles in extent, together with the T.L. of Dungooly added since Disestablishment consti- tute the present parish. The glebe house was built in 1776 at a cost of £242 196. lO d. The church was altered and improved in 1859. The silver chalice and paten (recently repaired) were presented to this church by Richard Jackson 140 years ago, and have been in use ever since. The chalice is inscribed : " The gift of Richard Jackson, Esq., to the Church of Forkhill ; " the paten : " Richard Jackson, Esq." This Mr. Jackson was the founder of "the Forkill Charities," the Trustees of which have dispensed among other benefactions £1,000 per annum since 1836 to S.P.G. His tomb in the churchyard here is thus inscribed : — " Underneath this monument are interred the remains of Richard Jackson, Esq., late of Forkill Lodge in the County of Armagh m. 10 d. Jun. a.d 1787 ann. et. 65. A firm friend to the Religious and Civil Constitution of his country, he exerted his most strenuous endeavours for its improvement by an almost constant residence on his estate, where, by the steady practice of all the virtues that adorn the retired paths of private life, by piety and rectitude in his own conduct, by humanity and benevolence towards all, by a lenient indulgence to his poorer tenants, and by the example of extensive agriculture, he used his utmost efforts to promote the temporal and eternal welfare of all who lived within the reach of his influence. Nor did he confine his pious and charitable intentions to the short period of his own life, but, by his extensive bequests he perpetuated and rendered permanent, schemes well calculated to promote the furtherance of piety and morality, and to diffuse the light of the Gospel by the extension of pure Christianity." A copper Alms Dish is inscribed : " The gift of the Rev. Southwell Starkey to his friend Richd. Jackson, Esq., for his Church at Forkhill, Augst. 1st., 1771 "; another has : " Parish of Forkhill. 1819," while a plated paten is inscribed " The Revd. James Campbell, LL.D., 1857." Records extant : — In P.R.O. Baptisms and Burials 1823-87, Marriages 1823-45. In Incumbent's possession Registers of Marriages from 1845, Baptisms and Burials from 1887, Vestry Books from 1793, Preacher's Books from 1845. SOURCE: Armagh clergy and parishes : being an account of the clergy of the Church of Ireland in the Diocese of Armagh, from the earliest period, with historical notices of the several parishes, churches, &c James B Leslie.), b. Abt. 1722; d. 11 Jun 1787
· SOURCE: Probated Will, Entire Will Transcribed in Cootes Statistical survey. Bequests: All estate of Co. Cavan to his wife, subj.to 20,000l of which after exps, leave to execs. On trust. .); m. NICHOLA ANN CECIL HAMILTON; d. , Abt 1804 (Source: Probated Will.).
[66] Nichola Ann Cecil HAMILTON
[67] Susan JACKSON (Source: T.G.F. Patterson, 1789 May 25 29 George III. Cap 3 Act of Parliament establishing trust of Richard Jackson of Forkhill. Wife, Nichola Ann JACKSON. He d. June 11, 1787 without issue. Sister, Susanna BARTON (nee JACKSON). Of interest to me is the mention of Thomas REID “late of Dundalk but now of the city of Bath, Esq.”(p. 5) as one of the “surviving executors”. JACKSON had a manor in Forkhill and the manor of Castle Hamilton in Co. Cavan. He also gives money to Ann BOYD of Wexford and after her decease to her nephew, his godson. He also made a donation to Armagh Infirmary “for the good of my poor fellow creatures who are destroyed by the advice of Quack Doctors”. Nichola Ann JACKSON was living in the townland of Carrickasticken (where the manor of Forkhill was located). .) died Abt. 1805 (Source: Probated Will.). She married UNNAMED BARTON 1750. He died Bef. 1766 (Source: 1766 Will of Richard Jackson, His wife is mentioned as already a widow.).
[68] Unnamed BARTON
[69] Juliana Eliza Barton
[70] John OGLE (Source: Kyla Madden, Forkhill Protestants - Forkhill Catholics, 1787-1858, McGill-Queens University Press, 2005, 36-37, Described as a ruthless magistrate, and a target of the United Irishmen.), 1791.
[71] Hugh Jackson
[72] Beresford Jackson
[73] Anne Jackson
[74] Beresford JACKSON
[75] John JACKSON
[76] Dorothy JACKSON
[77] Rose JACKSON The fact of a Thomas BUNBURY in another generation being a witness to the will of Richard JACKSON of Forkhill, as well as the Benjamin BUNBURY who was a High Sherriff (as several JACKSONs were) and as well as a significant JACKSON presence in Co. Carlow means the following excerpt could very well be the key to a husband for Rose JACKSON: Thomas Bunbury I (1673 - 1743) of Cloghna Thomas Bunbury of Cloghna and Cranovonane was born in 1673. It is not known when he acquired Cranovonane. In 1697, the year in which the first Lisnavagh House was built, he married Rose Jackson. The Bunburys were already well established in County Carlow - Thomas's father had been High Sheriff of the county in 1695. At some point, Thomas also acquired a property south of Carlow town at Cloghna, just off the N9 somewhere close to Tinryland. Rose Bunbury died at Cranavonane in February 1738 and Thomas followed in 1743. They left two surviving sons - Thomas and Benjamin. SOURCE: http://www.turtlebunbury.com/family/bunburyfamily_bunburys/bunbury_family_bunburys_cranovonane.html
[78] Thomas Bunbury
[79] Jane JACKSON
[80] Samuel JACKSON
[81] Otway JACKSON NOTE: This is an unusual name and since in the mid-1800s, there was an Otway Jackson HARRISON in America, it may be that the earlier Otway JACKSON emigrated.
[82] Thomas JACKSON. His birth date comes from the genealogy done by John Cameron Ward at http://www.wardjc.com/people/p000017p.htm#I17137
[83] John JACKSON. His birth date comes from the genealogy done by John Cameron Ward at http://www.wardjc.com/people/p000017p.htm#I17137
[84] Samuel JACKSON. The key source here was a will that I took notes on that was included in T.G.F. Patterson’s Notebook #5 which is held at the Armagh Museum. His birth date comes from the genealogy done by John Cameron Ward at http://www.wardjc.com/people/p000017p.htm#I17137
He resided at the time of his death with a nephew, Robert JACKSON in a house on Mary Lane, Dublin. He owned property in Co. Monaghan and Co. Cavan as well as at Clifford in Yorkshire. He also owned other properties in Dublin: Young Cashall & Fishamble St. House in King St. which he bought from William Robert THORNTON. In naming three friends from Coleraine as well as a nephew from Coleraine, he clearly had strong connections with that part of Ireland.
· 4. Tues. 15-19 Jan 1706. ... This morning Sam Jackson Esq. died, 'tis said he was worth £30,000 which he left to his two nephews. About half an hour after, Madam Mitchelburn, sister to the said Jackson, died in the same house. [NOTE: The announcement of the death of Madam MITCHELBURN was untrue as can be seen from a future announcement: 21. Richard Mitchelburne, Dublin, gent, whose will is dated 31 Jan. 1715 (Eustace, Registry of Deeds Dublin, Abstracts of Wills, vol. I, p. 79), was married to Mary Jackson; she, however, was still alive in 1715. Also, she was a sister-in-law of Samuel JACKSON, not a sister (see beneath in entry for her son William JACKSON)] SOURCE: Announcements In Impartial Occurrences, Jan. 1705—Feb. 1706 H. F. MORRIS, LL.B., M.A., PH.D.. p. 189 of The Irish Genealogist Vol 5, No 2, 1975.
· A Samuel JACKSON is mentioned as a purchaser of an estate as well as a Roger Significantly, Samuel JACKSON had a brother named “Rodger”. SOURCE: The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry, When Cromwell came to Ireland. John O’Hart. 2007
· He is likely the same Samuel JACKSON who in 1703 bought lands in Ballinclea, Parish of Kill-of-the-Grange. SOURCE: A History of the County of Dublin: Parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century. Francis Erington Ball, Dublin 1902.p60.
· This letter may be from him: Samuel Jackson, Dublin, to Sir Albert Conyngham, Mount Charles House, Strabane, about Capt. Hamilton's affairs.'... We have been in great consternation here about a letter which I presume you must have heard of, wherein it was said that on the 7th instant the Protestants was [sic] to be cut off; which alarm hath caused I believe 2000 [?] people to go for England. But, God be thanked, now people begin to come into their right wits again. For my part, I never believed anything of that report, and I do not doubt but in a little time all things in England will come to a good accommodation. ...' SOURCE: PRONI T2825/C/47/2.
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Name |
Occupation |
Birthplace |
Year of taking oaths |
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Jackson, Samuel |
Pewterer |
Nantwich |
20 May 1669 |
[85] Francis JACKSON. IN the notes under Leonard JACKSON b. 1650, he is referred to as a half brother.
[86] Marie JACKSON SOURCE: The registers of the parish church of Whittington in the County of Lancaster. Christenings, burials, and weddings, 1538 to 1764
[87] Daniel JACKSON. SOURCE: The registers of the parish church of Whittington in the County of Lancaster. Christenings, burials, and weddings, 1538 to 1764 NOTE: There is also a Daniel JACKSON listed in The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry, When Cromwell came to Ireland. John O’Hart. 2007.Although he would have been too young, the occurrence of the name is interesting. It is included under Soldiers of the Commonwealth.
Under the Acts of
Settlement & Explanation .NOTE:
In 1641 Tullyvallen, Parish of Creggan was granted to Thomas BALL for the use
of Daniel & Sarah JACKSON. "in ye N.E. part
of Edward Towley's retrenchment". Date of enrollment 1668. Acreage: 249-1-13. SOURCE: The History
of the Parish of Creggan in the 17th & 18h Century. L. P. Murray,
Isaac Dobson, Wm. Frankland, J. Southey. Journal
of the County Louth Archaeological Society, Vol. 8, No. 2 (1934), pp.
117-163. Interestingly, a Richard JACKSON is in Tullyvallen in the 1766 survey.
NOTE: Could he have been the Daniel JACKSON, Vicar of Santry
(d.1707)?
[88] Jane JACKSON. SOURCE: The registers of the parish church of Whittington in the County of Lancaster. Christenings, burials, and weddings, 1538 to 1764
[89] Leonard JACKSON, Rector of Totham in Lancashire NOTE: He shows up at: Marriages at the Church of St James the Less in the Parish of Tatham performing a marriage in 1718. Other JACKSONs were also in the Parish. SEE: http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Tatham/stjames/marriages_1558-1754.html
· Leonard Jackson, a son of Richard Jackson, rector of Whittington, was educated at Christ's Coll., Camb.; M.A. 1677. He was a benefactor. SOURCE: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53304 Richard JACKSON became Rector of Whittington in 1641, July 26.
· SOURCE: The registers of the parish church of Whittington in the County of Lancaster. Christenings, burials, and weddings, 1538 to 1764 http://www.archive.org/stream/registersofparis00whit/registersofparis00whit_djvu.txt
· Jackson, Leonard: son of Richard: born at Whittington, Lanes. School : (1) Lancaster, under M'' Holden : (2) Kirkby Lonsdale, under M"' Garthwaite for a few months. Admitted sizar under M"' [Chris.] Bainbridge [who held his Fellowship till Mids. 1669] 20 May 1668. Age 17. B.A. 167|; M.A. 1677. Born 21 April 1650, of Jane the second wife of Richard (uiaf*. 1619) rector of Halton, then of Whittington near Kirkby Lonsdale: half-brother of Francis (1649). Ordained deacon, Chichester, 1673 May: priest, York, 1676 May. Rector of Claughton in Lonsdale, Lanes. 5 Sept. 1678: held it till 1681, when according to Croston-Baines (5. 534) he died : but he pretty certainly is the same who resigned the vicarage of Sheritt' Hutton before April 1700: and on 3 Feb. of the same year he became rector of Tatham near Wennington. Added a steeple to the church tower 1722. Died 1734: or 1726 (Croston-Baines, 5. 555) when at all events he ceased to be rector, Robert Jackson succeeding. (Information from B. N. North, Esq., Kirkby Lonsdale.) SOURCE: Biographical Register Of Christ's College 1505-1905 And Of The Earlier Foundation, God's House 1448-1505 Cambridge University Press 1st Edition: Cambridge University Press 1913 http://www.archive.org/stream/biographicalregi02peil/biographicalregi02peil_djvu.txt
[90] Tatham proper lies in the valley of the Wenning, the parish church being placed on the northern side of the river, which is crossed by a bridge; but nearly the whole area of this township-parish lies to the south of the river, occupying hilly country between the wooded valley of the Hindburn and the border of Yorkshire. SOURCE: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53304
[91] Mary JACKSON SOURCE: The registers of the parish church of Whittington in the County of Lancaster. Christenings, burials, and weddings, 1538 to 1764
[92] Abigail JACKSON 1655 a daughter of Richard JACKSON named Abigail JACKSON was christened. A Rowland Burrow married an Abigail Jackson on 26 February 1675.SOURCE: The registers of the parish church of Whittington in the County of Lancaster. Christenings, burials, and weddings, 1538 to 1764 http://www.archive.org/stream/registersofparis00whit/registersofparis00whit_djvu.txt
[93] Rowland BURROW SOURCE: The registers of the parish church of Whittington in the County of Lancaster. Christenings, burials, and weddings, 1538 to 1764
[94] Rodger JACKSON SOURCE: The registers of the parish church of Whittington in the County of Lancaster. Christenings, burials, and weddings, 1538 to 1764 NOTE: The name Roger JACKSON is not common, so it is worth noting that an Ensign Roger JACKSON is mentioned in The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry, When Cromwell came to Ireland. John O’Hart. 2007.