Jackson Genealogy Page

Updated 8 November 2009

I have been somewhat reluctant to start researching the Jacksons, my husband Barry's family, because its a frequently occurring surname and I have been concentrating on the family research on my side of the family.  However following a query from someone who found my website, I thought I'd make a start.

We had various certificates which Barry's father, Robert Jackson (known as Bob) had saved and I started with them -

For Robert Jackson, though we had only found the small birth certificate and obtained the full certificate for more information.

Bob was born on 9 October 1902 in we believed Cudworth, Barnsley.  On this small certificate it gives Place of Birth Registration District as Barnsley; Sub-district as Darton. The full certificate reveals more -

Robert Jackson  married Hilda Mary Barrowcliffe and their marriage certificate provides the following information -

Hilda Barrowcliffe's family history can be seen on the Barrowcliffe/Dutton page of this website.

More about Barry's interests and his account of his childhood memories can be seen here.

Robert Jackson's parents were :-

John Jackson = Eliza Price

Barry's Paternal Grandparents

(see photographs further down this page)

Their marriage certificate, which we found amongst Bob's possessions, provides further information:

John and Eliza Jackson had 13 children - the only names so far known to us at this time were - Ralph, Robert and Miriam.  A copy of the details of Eliza's birth certificate are shown further down the page:

Not knowing much about Burslem  I used Google to see what I could find.  I discovered the following useful website containing articles and photographs of Burslem and the surrounding district:

http://www.thepotteries.org/six_towns/burslem.htm and another useful website can be found at - http://www.thepotteries.org/family_history/index.htm

John Jackson was born on 23 August 1860 at 99 Hot Lane, Burslem, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire and his parents were -

John Jackson = Ann Bloor

Barry's Great Grandparents

The only document I had at first relating to John Jackson and Ann Bloor was the birth certificate of their son John Jackson - found with Bob's papers:

This Birth Certificate was a copy applied for by John Jackson, himself - his address at this time was 20 Park Avenue, Carcroft, Nr Doncaster on 3 November 1927. This is shown on the back of the copy birth certificate and appears as a printed header - NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE ACTS, 1911 TO 1920 AND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT 1920.  Then details of the person who applied for the copy of the birth certificate as detailed above.  John must have been 67 years of age when he applied for his birth certificate. On 8 May 2006, Barry and I journeyed to Carcroft and found Park Avenue - some of the houses are still standing but the even numbers start at 24 and there are some newer properties where No. 20 would have been. Picture No.1 shows the sign for Hot Lane in Burslem where John was born.   Picture No.2 is the start of the houses currently standing on Park Avenue, at Carcroft, the newer houses are shown on the right.  Picture No. 3 shows Bentley Moor Lane this is where the family lived in 1931 - there is no residential property left, only industrial units on both sides of this road.

The next certificate I sent for was the marriage certificate for John and Ann Bloor -

For further research into the Bloor connection please follow this link to the page for Hamlet Bloor.

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I next found the birth of a daughter Ann, to Hamlet and Elizabeth JACKSON - Hamlet and Elizabeth Jackson could be Barry's 2 x Great Grandparents:

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Obtaining  the birth certificate for Eliza Price, wife of John Jackson (junior), and Barry's Grandmother, details are shown below:

Receipt of this document revealed Barry's other Great Grandparents -

Robert Price = Eliza Lees

Great Grandparents

They were married in 1859; September quarter vol 6b page 113.  I sent for their wedding certificate to discover more about Robert and Eliza.  This document arrived and provides me with the beginnings of other 'branches' -

Barry's 2 x Great Grandfathers Samuel Lees and Elijah Price

This document shows that Robert Price was born in abt 1839 and Eliza Lees in abt 1838.   The Residence at the time of marriage is hard to read but just might have been Dale Hale*.  Also the name of Eliza Lees's father has been transcribed as 'Samuel' when in various Census returns its shown as Simeon.  I have queried this with the GRO and they relooked at the original Marriage Certificate and confirmed that the name of Eliza's father was definitely given as 'Samuel' on the certificate. We believe the error is on the certificate as we can't trace a Samuel Lees who matches any of our information. 

* http://www.thepotteries.org/did_you/003.htm Finding this site on the Internet, led me to believe that the residence on the marriage certificate was indeed Dale Hall.

I sent for a birth certificate for the only Eliza LEES I could find on any of the birth lists that was a near match - that was found on Staffordshire BMD - the certificate arrived on 26 May 2005 and if this is 'our' Eliza, reveals her Mother and Father as Simeon and Ann Lees (formerly Poulson):

A new family name - 'Poulson' - 3 x Great Grandparents!  Subsequent records shown below reveal that Barry's

3 x Great Grandparents were

John and Elizabeth Poulson and

On the Burslem microfilm I found the marriage of Barry's 2 x Great Grandparents, Simeon Leese and Ann Poulson taking place at St John's, Burslem:

The person compiling the Bishop Transcripts for the estalished church at this period didn't mention occupations on marriage records but the nonconformists registers did give 3 generations of names on baptisms.  Searching these Non-conformist records for Staffordshire, I found several baptism entries for children of Simeon and Ann in the registers for the Wesleyan Chapel, Tunstall in the Parish of Wolstanton -

A previous record from the Wesleyan Chapel at Tunstall showed -

The above register entry showed another two generations;

Aaron Lees and Jane Harvey 3 x Great Grandparents and

Samuel and Hannah Harvey 4 x Great Grandparents

All children of Aaron and Jane, shown on the above records were:

Harvey, Simeon, Asaph, Austin and Henry were born when the family lived in Brownhills, they then moved to Tunstall where the rest of their children were born.  The entry for Christopher Christian though does state that Aaron's wife was Sarah but the parents of Sarah were shown to be the same, i.e. Samuel and Hannah Harvey.

IGI has a marriage for Samuel Harvey and Hannah Pepper at Keele, Staffs on 26 May 1788 and a daughter Jane was baptised 6 Sep 1789 at Wolstanton, but these entries need verifying.

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Sending for Robert Price's Birth Certificate showed another new 'branch' of Barry's family:

The address is column 1 is difficult to decipher "4a" with an undecipherable squiggle "Mat Longport Burslem" 

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I have just discovered a Staffordshire website which contained some information on various people within the Jackson Family research: http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/ - to navigate around this website - choose a locality on the map which appears on the left of the screen - I chose "the Potteries" and subsequently another map appeared; I then chose "Burslem" and then selected the "View records" button and amongst the items available was "A List of Persons Receiving Relief from the Parish of Wolstanton - from the Enoch Wood scrapbook".

I found that -

Elijah Price, Shoe Maker of Burslem, and father of Robert Price had received relief during 1830-31 because he was sick;

Aaron Leese, jnr of Tunstall, potter had received relief during the same period because he was unemployed.

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1841 Census

Elijah and Mary Price were found to be living "Longport, Near Pack Horse", Burslem, Staffordshire in 1841:

The Leese family were found living in 'America', Tunstall: 

On the enumerator's schedule, the entry above Simeon and Anns' household in Tunstall showed Aaron Leese, age 50, occupation painter, born in County. Could this be Simeon's father?  I think the following entry is the more likely Aaron and Jane Leese, living at John Street, Tunstall:

I searched the 1841 Census for Ann Leese's parents, John and Elizabeth Poulson and this could be them, living at Well Street, Tunstall:

Or there was another John and Elizabeth but they were in Clerkenwell, Borough of Finsbury:

I found the above couple in 1861 where it stated John was born Staffs, Stoke on Trent; Elizabeth born in Devonshire

John Jackson, senior was living with his parents, Hamlet and Elizabeth Jackson in New Street, Shelton:

In the fiches for St John the Evangelist, Hanley I found a baptism for Hamlet Jackson, born 27th December 1799; baptised 5 Jan 1800, parents Jos and Ellen Jackson; and on the IGI a marriage for Hamlet Jackson and Elizabeth Bowers, taking place at Norton In the Moors, Staffs on 2 July 1820.

In the 1851 Census,  Elijah Price and his family were living in Mount Pleasant, Burslem -

Also in 1851 - Living at 47 Sneyd Street, Tunstall, lodging with the James Colly family were:

I'm not yet sure whether this Leese family is our connection, but it is the closest yet.  And this could be Simeon's parents at Globe Street, Burslem:

Looking for the Poulson family in 1851, I found a John Poulson, widower:

John Jackson, by 1851, now married to Ann Bloor was lodging with the Lowe family in the Hamlet of Sneyd  at Holecroft: 

John's parents were living in Hotlane, Sneyd Parish, Burslem - in the same household was their two unmarried daughters and daughter Ellen, married to John Fox and their family:

Note spelling of Hamlet.  Ellen Jackson had married John Fox in 1843 at Shelton St Marks.

I couldn't find Robert's parents, Elijah and Mary Price in the 1861 Census, and looked for the deaths on the BMD index: 

Elijah Price died 3 November 1856 - here's the information from his death certificate:

and Mary died later in 1859, on 16th December at 42 Ellgreave Street:

Present at death of Mary was Neighbour, Henry Spencer.   There was a witness named "Sarah Spencer"  on the marriage certificate of Robert Price and Eliza Lees.  I looked on FreeBMD for a marriage for Sarah Price,  daughter of Elijah and Mary Price, shown as age 20 in 1841.  There is a marriage registered Wolstanton in June 1850 and amongst the possible bridegrooms given on the list is a Henry Spencer vol 17, page 373; this entry in the 1851 Census might be Henry Spencer and his wife Sarah living in "New Bag St"?, Burslem:

This is Henry and Sarah Spencer living at 40 Ellgreave Street, Burslem in 1861:

Frederick Price could be Sarah's brother.

Shown at No.44 Ellgreave Street, Burslem in 1871:

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1861 Census

I believe this is Robert and Eliza Price living at 23 Reid Street, Burslem:

Also Residing  at 23 Reid Street, but listed as a separate schedule were -

I found John and Ann Jackson at 99 Hot Lane, Burslem:

And John's father Hamlet Jackson was still residing with his daughter and son-in-law in Hot Lane at No.41:

Mary Wood, Visitor was Hamlet Jackson's daughter who had married William Wood at Bucknall, St Mary's in 1852.

I have found a possible death of Hamlet Jackson's wife, Elizabeth on FreeBMD - March 1861 Registered Wolstanton Vol 6b, page 91 and also a death for Hamlet Jackson in March 1867 vol 6b page 116 at the age of 67 - Barry's 2 x Great Grandparents:

1871 Census

John and Ann Jackson were still in Hot Lane, Burslem but in 1871 had moved to No.94:

* Adding my Jackson family tree to ancestry.co.uk, I have discovered someone else researching this Jackson family - Brian Jackson is a descendant of Thomas Jackson, 2nd son of John and Ann Jackson.

John and Ann's daughter Harriet had married Thomas Tomkinson in 1869 and they were living at 109 Hot Lane:

Simeon and Ann Lees (now spelt Leese) were living at Sneyd Croft, Burslem, with their son John and his family:

John had married Lucy Eardley in 1864 - found on Staffordshire BMD.

I found a Robert and Eliza Price living on Dale Street, Burslem - Head of household was Sarah Paule - this was the nearest match, but I'm not that certain its 'our' Price family:

Looking at the original the name of Sarah looks more like 'Poole' - the census record shows Robert Price as "Son in law" - this makes me think that I may have the wrong family.  I have searched for Sarah Poole in other Census records and can only find her married to a Hamlet Poole, but can't find evidence as to why Robert Price should be her "son in law".  Sarah and Hamlet Poole do have a daughter Eliza but she is 10 years older than the above Eliza.

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1881 Census

In 1881, living in Burslem at 37 Reid Street was Eliza Price, the widow of Robert Price and their daughter Eliza, who was later to marry John Jackson (Barry's Grandparents):

I found a death on FreeBMD which could be Robert Price; registered at Wolstanton June 1876 age 37 Vol 6b page 102. This death certificate shows:

According to Chambers 21st Century Dictionary, Phthisis is a wasting disease such as tuberculosis.  I couldn't find Eliza's parents Simeon and Ann Leese in the 1881 Census, but searching the death index records I found their deaths - like Robert, their deaths occurred at 37 Reid Street, Burslem:

Cause of death - Peritonitis: acute abdominal pain.

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Thanks to Andrew MacIntosh from Denbighshire, for getting in touch with me.  Andrew informed me that John and Ann Jackson split up between 1871 and 1881.  Ann married James Abbotts (b 1816).  John Jackson relocates to Runcorn in Cheshire before moving to Blackburn and he is shown below in the 1881 Census living with his 'new' wife Elizabeth at 15 Pleasant View, Blackburn, Lancashire -

Andrew is unsure whose children these are, they all are recorded as born in Cheshire; Andrew thinks that possibly the two younger children were John's but then speculates that they all four could be John's as, continuing the speculation, he suspects that John was having an affair with Elizabeth whilst living with Ann. 

NOTE: One doubt about this family though is that the same couple are together in the previous Census records, living in Parrs Square, Runcorn, Cheshire in 1871 and in Back Mersy Street, Runcorn in 1861.  I have also found a death for a John Jackson registered at Wolstanton  in 1871 and sent for the Certificate - this seems to indicate that Ann was a widow when she married or just moved in with James Abbots and the John and Elizabeth Jackson, mentioned above are not 'our' Jackson family.  Details found on John's death certificate are shown here:

Andrew's connection is John and Ann Jackson's daughter Ann who left home and married John Moore in 1876. In 1881, they were living at 8 Davenport Square, Burslem - John and Ann Moore are Andrew's 2 x Great Grandparents:

Searching the 1881 Census I found John Jackson (Barry's Grandfather) at 94 Hot Lane, Burslem, Stafford, living with his Mother and Step-father:

James Abbotts had lived at No.1 Hot Lane for a number of years with his wife Sarah and their children.  I have been unable to find a marriage for James Abbotts and Ann Jackson to date, but then I found a marriage for an Ann Jackson to a George Prince in 1872*; a death for George Prince in 1875; and then an 1878 marriage for James Abbotts and an Ann Prince.  I then sent for this 1878 marriage certificate to establish whether or not this is Barry's Great Grandmother's 3rd marriage and also a death certificate for Ann Abbotts in 1882. The marriage certificate arrived first:

The father being shown as Hamlet Bloor confirmed that this was the former Ann Jackson.  The death certificate arrived a couple of days later:

In the "When registered" column a figure '5' was placed between the two eight digits of the year 1882 and a 'cross' placed under them.

I have been corresponding with an ancestor of James Abbotts, Melody Wright, who contacted me as we both have James Abbotts on our trees on Ancestry.co.uk; Melody confirmed the name of James 1st wife - Melody states "James is my 3 x great grandad & was married to Sarah Till. I'm now going to send for the death certs. It all adds up, from his father Samuel to being a brickmaker."

A further email from Melody stated that the death certificates had arrived:

"I received James and Sarah Abbotts death certs, James first wife Sarah Till died on 05/06/1875 at 1 Hot Lane. Cause of death was Paralysis, James registered the death.

James died on 03/09/1890 at 25 Loftus Street, Hanley, the home of his son James and wife Mary, Cause of death was Heart Disease and it was registered by his daughter in law Mary Abbotts. That made it more certain that it is my James as in 1891 James and Mary were at the same address and had twins born there in 1891.

Mary Abbotts maiden name was Lynch and I just received her fathers death cert, very interesting as he threw himself in the canal at Middleport, Burslem, and drowned. My cousin who lives in Newcastle Under Lyme went to Hanley Library for me and looked at the newspaper archives to find any info and she found a small piece relating to it. The inquest was held at the Davenport Arms Pub and apparrantly John Lynch had lost his job due to bad health a few months earlier and he was very despondent. A young girl had seen him walk into the canal and he just put his face under the water, she went for help but all attempts to resuscitate him failed. The verdict was suicide, temporary insanity.
Now am I right in thinking that at this time and bearing in mind they were Catholic, John would not have been buried in a Church Cemetery due to him taking his own life?"

*I found a possible George Prince in the 1871 Census living in Hot Lane - a boarder at No. 105:

In 1861 George is shown living in Burslem at 6 Kilncroft with his wife and two sons:

In the 1851 Census, George is shown living with his widowed mother who hails from Virginia, USA, they were residing at Kilncroft:

The IGI has a marriage for George Prince and Jane Cartledge on 8 November 1845 at Burslem, St John's and George's father was shown as John Prince.

The marriage certificate for Ann Jackson's 2nd marriage to George Prince shows -

they were only married just less than three years when George Prince died on 1 January 1875 at 3 Massey's Square, Burslem:

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By 1881, Harriet, John and Ann Jackson's daughter Harriet, had moved to Norton le Moors  - she is shown with husband Thomas and their family living in Sparrow Street but where the address should be shown, the enumerator has written "nk" - unknown - the previous entry address was 16 Sparrow Street:

and John and Ann Jackson's son, Thomas was living in lodgings in Commercial Street, Burslem - he was age 18 and working as a Potter.  His landlord was Innkeeper, Henry Scott. Thomas married Lavinia Yoxall on 28 July 1884 in Longton, Staffs.

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1891 Census

As mentioned at the beginning of this page John Jackson (junior) married Eliza Price on 21 September 1889.  I found their entry on Ancestry.co.uk living at Broad Meadow, Chesterton, Newcastle under Lyme:

Still living at 37 Reid Street, Burslem was Barry's Great Grandmother, Eliza, widow of Robert Price (formerley Eliza Lees):

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Visiting Barnsley Archives on 29 November 2004, as there was no name index, I trawled through a couple of microfiches for Cudworth - this was where Barry's father was born in 1902 and I wanted to establish if the family were there for the Census in 1901.  Bingo! - I found them at the end of the second fiche:

Living in Jubilee Terrace, Royston, Barnsley

This Census schedule shows that the Jackson family were still in Staffordshire for the birth of Arthur, and by the time Eliza was born they were living in Royston.  I visited Barnsley Archives to try to find the baptisms of John and Eliza's children in the Royston records.  I did find three baptised at Royston St Matthews but the writing became so faint I could not read the latter entries on that particular fiche.  I asked the archivist if they had the original records;  I was told that they did but they were not yet available for viewing as they were still being catalogued.  Here are the records I did manage to find, unfortunately they do not include Barry's father Robert:

ROYSTON ST MATTHEWS WESLEYAN METHODIST 1898-1975

In 1901, Eliza's mother was now living at 22 Elder Road, Burslem with her son Robert and his family:

Robert Price and Mary A Goodwin's marriage in 1896, St John, Burslem, is recorded on Staffordshire BMD

The 1911 Census has arrived! and the first person I found was Eliza Price; still living with her son Robert's family but at a different address - 15 Primitive Street, Smallthorne, Staffs:

There were extra colums headed "Particulars as to Marriage" and this was divided into 4 columns - Marital status; How long the marriage had lasted; Total children born alive; No. still living; No. who had died.  In this case the columns showed:

And her daughter Eliza and son-in-law John Jackson, was living at 31 William Street, Highgate, Goldthorpe - this gave the following information with the details of the "Particulars of Marriage" showing 21 years married, and the details as to number of children born/died:

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In 2007, I joined the Blo(o)r(e) Society, an association for those interested in the history and genealogy of the Blore, Bloor and Bloore surnames.  I have attended two of their meetings - in 2007 at Stockport and on 10 May 2008 met with them again in Hanley, Stoke on Trent.

The Society's Librarian Peter Hodgkinson found what could be the marriage of Hamlet Bloore's parents.  According to the IGI Sarah Clare married John Bloor at Norton In the Moors on 5 June 1808.  Peter thought that there were four baptisms which could be their children:

Hamlet born 1809 at Burslem; Timothy 1813 at Hanley; Thirza 1817 at Burslem St. John; and Lewis 1819 at Burslem St John. 

I need to order the various parish record films to find out more information. 

Whilst in Hanley, Barry and I took the opportunity of visiting several of the places mentioned on certificates and on census returns - here's the photographs:

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The older photographs on the left were all found with Robert Jackson's possessions. 

We can't identify anyone on the third or fourth picture which obviously are school photographs.

The other photos are  -

Photo No.1: John Jackson with two of his sons, we think Robert is the one on the left.  Photo No.2 shows Eliza Jackson (nee Price) with two of their children. Photo No.5: is of Royston St Matthews Wesleyan Methodist Church where some of the Jackson children were baptised whilst living in Royston - now a fitness studio.

Another document in our possession is a Deed of Conveyance relating to the interment of Doris May Jackson - a date alongside the name was 14 December 1922; No in R.B. 110 - these details appeared in a small vertical side table.

The Grave Space was purchased by John Jackson for £1.1.0, 1 guinea!   This gave John exclusive rights to Grave Space No 142, Section D, in Arksey, in the Urban District of Bentley with Arksey.  John Jackson was living at 14 Esk Terrace, Bentley at this time - 24 January 1923.  The inscription on this photograph though states "In loving memory of" across the top and "Doris M Jackson 1906-1922" on one side "Arthur Jackson 1897-1964" on the right hand side; finished off below with "Safe in the arms of Jesus".  Doris was 16 when she died; Arthur much older about 66 years of age.  Searching on the Death registers, I found Doris died Oct-Dec quarter of 1922 age 16 Vol 9c p751 registered at Doncaster; the only record in 1964 which I could find for Arthur was in April quarter of 1964 Registered at Don Valley Vol 28 page 476 the age given is 66. I decided to send for these 2 death certificates:

Difinition of Pericarditis - Inflammation of the lining around the heart, causing chest pain and accumulation of fluid around the heart.

Looking on Ancestry.co.uk for the marriage of Eliza Jackson, I found that she had married Tom Plackett in 1946, registered in Doncaster July quarter, vol 2b page 1007.

Barry remembers that his father's sister Eliza had lived in Haggs Wood Stainforth, in a caravan.

Amongst Barry's father's papers were two invoices issued by R. Bletcher, Wheelwright, Joiner and Undertaker of Skellow, Nr Doncaster.  Both these invoices were for funerals, one dated March 12th 1930 addressed to Mrs Jackson of Park Avenue Carcroft - looking on the Death index for the first quarter of 1930 there was a death of John Jackson, age 69 registered at Doncaster vol 9c, page 868:

 Here's the details taken from John's death certificate -

Present at death was Mr R Jackson - this might have been Robert, Barry's father or Robert's brother, Ralph.

The second invoice from the same undertaker was this time addressed to Mr Jackson of Bentley Moor Lane and was dated April 6th 1931.  In the Death index, I found a death for Eliza Jackson, age 62, registered at Doncaster April quarter of 1931 vol 9c p836.

Eliza's death certificate shows she died on 3 April 1931 when the family were living in Bentley Moor Lane, Adwick le Street:

A. Jackson might be John and Eliza's son Arthur, shown on the 1901 Census entry above and is probably the person buried in the grave we found in Arksey Cemetery.

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Updated 8 November 2009