Re: Robert Jackson and Elizabeth Brett
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Robert Jackson and Elizabeth Brett
Colin Whitehead 2/20/09
Hi Colin
This is the information I have on the early Jacksons. According to my information (from a reasonably recent print version of Burkes Peerage)Robert Jackson died in 1756, which rules him out of the battle for Quebec, which was in 1759. I haven't so far found anything on Elizabeth Brett, except that it was a common name in Virginia..
Hope this helps
Regard
Paul
Generation 1
Robert Jackson *
The earliest ancestor of the Jackson family that can be traced is Robert Jackson, of Carlisle, Cumberland.He would have been have been born in the second half of the16th century, when Elizabeth I was on the English throne.I have seen a few references to a landowner named Robert Jackson at about the right time, but nothing that can be definitely identified.
Generation 2
John Jackson *
Robert Jackson had at least one son, John.All that is known about him is that he died at Carlisle in 1665. 1
Generation 3
Thomas Jackson *
The only child of John Jackson that we have any record of was Thomas, born at Carlisle in May 1649.He married Mary Johnson in 1671 and they had several children, including at least three sons. 1
Generation 4
Joseph Jackson *
The third son of Thomas and Mary Jackson, Joseph, was born at Carlisle on 5 October, 1681.He married Mary Patinson on 22 May, 1707, and they had at least one son. 1He was an alderman at Carlisleand appears to have emigrated to America, as his son was born in Virginia.
Generation 5
Robert Jackson *
Robert Jackson was born in Yorktown, Virginia.He married Elizabeth Brett of Yorktown at Norfolk, Virginia, on 7 November, 1723 . They had seven children.
Robert Jackson is the first of the family to join the navy that we have a record of.He was a surgeon on HMS Captain in 1748.
He was buried at Chatham on 25 April, 1756.This was probably Chatham, Kent (where there was a Royal Navy base), but might have been Chatham, Virginia.
Generation 6
6a)Joseph Jackson
Born in 1731, Joseph Jackson was a captain in the Royal Navy and served at Battle of Quiberon Bay (on France's Biscay coast near St Nazaire), which is said to be one of the finest victories in the annals of the Royal Navy. The battle, on a stormy November day in 1759, was immortalised in the song 'Hearts of Oak' composed to commemorate it.The defeat of the French fleet effectively ended France’s plan to invade Britain by landing 20,000 men in Scotland.Joseph Jackson was married to Mary Sax.They had no children.
A Joseph Jackson was captain of the Colston, a merchant ship that sailed from Montego Bay Jamaica to Bristol in 1776.It may be the same person.
He died in 1800 3.
6b)John Jackson *
John Jackson was born in Yorktown, Virginia.He married Hannah Coverley, daughter of Nathaniel Coverley, before 1761.They had nine children.He appears to have emigrated to Jamaica, where he died in 1777 at Kingston.She also died at Kingston, in 1788.3
John Jackson was a surgeon in the Royal Marines. 3
Nathaniel Coverly was a landowner who, in 1754, ownedfour acres in the parish of St. Catherine and 500 in the parish of St. Dorothy 500, Jamaica.In 1766, he was a contractor supplying water to Fort Charles & Fort Augusta.He is also is listed in theAlmanac And Register for the Island of Jamaica 1784 as Clerk of the Vestry (for the court) at Port Royal.
6c)Others
The other children of Robert Jackson and Elizabeth Brett were:
Robert, who died in 1770
Mary Anne, born in 1738
Rosanna, born in 1746:On 10 Dec 1791 a Rosanna Jackson married John Baptiste Grosicard, but it is not certain that this is the same person.
Elizabeth Brett, born in 1747
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