Revised
May 10, 2010
This website focuses on the ancestors and descendants of William Jackson (1879-1944) and Sarah Wilkinson Jackson (1879-1942), who were born in England in 1879 and traveled to America with their two children in 1923 and 1924. The research goes backward to the first ancestors in England who can be identified -- in the families of Jackson, James, Hayes and Wilkinson, and travels forward to the present day, in particular descendants living in America. There are these sections: This part
looks at the ancestors of William
Jackson (1879-1944), going
back to George
Jackson (born about 1793 in Cumberland) and continuing
with his children in the area near Cockermouth, in particular
Bridekirk. This includes Edward Jackson (1813-1857), who married Agnes
James
(1814-1889), first child of Francis
James (1793-1865) and
Ann Casson James
(1794-1871+), of Cumberland. A son of Edward and
Agnes James Jackson, also called Edward Jackson
(1847-1910), moved from Cumberland to St. Helen's in Lancashire and
married Mary Barton.
One of their children was Thomas
Jackson (1877-1947), whose daughter Edna Jackson
(1906-1995) was granted the O.B.E. for her work in health care during
World War II. Another child of Edward and Mary Barton Jackson
was
William Jackson
(1879-1944), who married Sarah
Wilkinson (1879-1942) and moved to America.
This part
looks at the family of Francis
James (1793-1865) and Ann Casson James,
of Cumberland, who lived near Bridekirk. Their daughter Agnes James
(1814-1889) married Edward
Jackson (1813-1857), and they lived at Bridekirk. After
Edward died, Agnes lived in Cockermouth. A son of Francis James, named Francis James Jr.
(1816-1884), apparently was quite wealthy. He lived in various places
around Bridekirk, including Blindcrake, Deanscales and Ulpha. Extensive
wills have been located on Francis James, both father and son. Other
children of Francis Senior included Mary James Dodd,
Eleanor James
Sumpton, and Ferdinand
Casson James (who had 13 children).
A special note, with photographs, is provided on Bridekirk and its church. William Wilkinson,
born in Leigh about 1820, had a son John Wilkinson
(1856-1919) who was a supervising engineer at the cotton mill in
Pennington, Leigh. John was married to Ellen Hayes
(1853-1943), daughter of Peers
Hayes (1828-1909). A daughter of John and Ellen Wilkinson
was Sarah Wilkinson
(1879-1942), who married William
Jackson
(1879-1944) and moved to America in 1924. Other Wilkinson family
members remained in Leigh and many were active in the Pennington Mill
as well as in Pennington Church.
William Hey, the
earliest identified ancestor of a very large Hayes family, was baptized in Leigh in 1634. He had a son Ellis Hey (1658-1705), a great-grandson Ellis Hayes (1728-1760), who lived in
Lowton, and a great-great-great-grandson Ellis Hayes (1784-1869). This last Ellis Hayes married Ellen
Bent, and they had nine children, including Samuel Hayes
(1821-1898), who married Mary
Ann Lowe, and Peers
Hayes (1828-1909), who married Anne Hatton. One
of the ten children of Peers Hayes was Ellen Hayes
(1853-1943), who married John
Wilkinson (1856-1919), of Leigh. Their daughter Sarah Wilkinson
(1879-1942) married William
Jackson (1879-1944), and they moved to America in 1923 and
1924.
This part
looks at William
Jackson (1879-1944) and Sarah Wilkinson
Jackson (1879-1942), their work and livelihood in England,
and their
decision to move to America. It provides details on their
four
children -- Ada
Jackson and Eleanor
Jackson,
who died young; Annie
Jackson
(1912-2006),
who married L.
Arthur Boyer and lived in Easton, Pennsylvania; and John
E. Jackson (1923-2000), who grew up in Phillipsburg, New
Jersey, served
with the Navy in World War II, married Dorothy (Dee) Rostron, had
four
daughters, and lived in California and Washington State.
LINKS:
The Jackson Family of Cumberland The James Family of Cumberland The Family of William and Sarah Jackson in America The Wilkinson Family of Leigh, Lancashire The Hayes Family of Leigh, Lancashire The Casson Family of Ulpha, Cumberland A Note on Bridekirk and Cockermouth, with photographs Genealogical Charts for the Jackson, Wilkinson, Hayes and James Families Neil Boyer's Home Page About the
Author
Neil A.
Boyer was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1938.
He grew
up in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, then graduated from Wilson High School
in Easton, Moravian College in Bethlehem, and New York University
School of Law. He was a teacher and lawyer in the first group
of
Peace Corps Volunteers to go to Ethiopia in 1962. Upon his
return, he worked for the Peace Corps in Washington and then spent
nearly 40 years with the Department of State, representing the United
States at meetings of the World Health Organization, the Pan American
Health Organization, and the Universal Postal Union. He
retired
from government in 2003 and lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. For more
information on Neil Boyer, go here.
Neil Boyer is the author of The Boyers of Easton, a 319-page book, published in 1987, with more than 300 photographs, focusing on his grandfather, Lewis Elmer Boyer (1869-1948), of Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. That book traced the Boyer family backward from Lew Boyer to his ancestors, as far as Johann Friedrich Boyer (1718-1804), who sailed to America from Rotterdam aboard the Nancy in 1752. The book also went forward to Lew Boyer’s children and their children. This paper grew out of an effort to bring the Boyer book (including the Jackson chapters) up to date, drawing on new information and the growing potential of the internet for genealogical research. Neil Boyer's lineage in the Jackson family is as follows: George
Jackson (b.1793?) / Francis James (1793-1865)
Edward Jackson (1813-1857) and Agnes James (1814-1889) Edward Jackson (1847-1910) and Mary Barton (1854-1933) William Jackson (1879-1944) and Sarah Wilkinson (1879-1942) Annie Jackson (1912-2006) and L. Arthur Boyer (1909-1985) Neil Arthur Boyer (b. 1938). Corrections
to this material and supplemental information are
welcome.
Please contact Neil Boyer in Silver Spring, Maryland, or by email at [email protected] |
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