History of the County of Middlesex, Canada ?(1889)

Minchin Jackson, a farmer of Middlesex County, Canada, is of

Irish descent and a son of Minchin Jackson, who was a gentleman by

birth and a landed proprietor of Tipperary County, Ireland, his estate

being called Mount Pleasant. The family resided in England at a

remote period, but had resided at Mount Pleasant for many genera-

tions, where they were among the highly honored and prominent old

country families of the county. The arms of the Jackson family may

be blazoned as follows : Shield, on a field argent, a chevron gules,

invected, between three eagles' heads sable, erased. Crest two lions'

paws, erased and erected, supporting the heads, and erased neck of an

Imperial or double eagle the eagle of the German Empire. The

occurrence of this device, which is quite unusual in the heraldry of Great

Britain and Ireland, appears to suggest military service performed

in Germany by a member of the Jackson family. The motto is :

" Haec Csesaris ilia Jovis " " To Csesar this belongs, and that to

Jove." Minchin Jackson, sr., lived to be seventy-two years of age,

and became the father of four children, who, like himself, were mem-

bers of the Church of England. Their names are as follows : George,

William, Catherine and Minchin. The latter was born on the old

homestead, in Ireland, in 1812, and received an excellent English

education, but being of an enterprising and energetic disposition he, at

the age of twenty-two years, determined to seek his fortune in the

New World, and about a year and a-half after landing in Canada pur-

chashed 200 acres of land of Col. Talbot, to whom he had a letter of

introduction from his brother, Major Jackson, of the First Eoyals, and

as he had brought considerable money with him from his old home, he

was enabled to hire his land cleared. In 1849 he was married to Miss

Frances Erriugton, a daughter of Rev. Ralph and Margaret D. (Watson)

Errington, and their union was blessed in the birth of four daughters

Frances D., Louisa J., Letitia and Mary E.

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Frances D. attended school in Newcastle, England, and was mar-

ried there to Dr. George H. Hume, by whom she has five children

William E., Norman H., Frances E., Margaret D. and Phyllis M.

Louisa J. also attended school at Newcastle, was married to Charles

Henry Lloyd, and is residing in Ireland at Lisheen Castle. She is the

mother of seven children Frances L., Henry M., Jane E., Cuthbert

R., George H., Harriet E. and Robert T. Charles H. Lloyd, Esq., J. P.,

County Tipperary, Ireland, was one of the landed proprietors of Ireland

summoned by the Royal Land Commissioners to attend before the

House of Lords on the land question of Ireland. He did attend.

Letitia was educated at home by her mother, and was married to

Thomas H. Shore, of Westminster Township, by whom she has six

children Frances E. L., William H., Mary E., Charles J., Francis M.

and Arthur F. The last daughter, Mary E. Jackson, married Francis

Shore, also of Westminster Township, and their family consists of four

children Thomas F., Henry M., John A. M. and Alfred E. Mr. and

Mrs. Jackson are the grandparents of twenty-two children, and are

earnest and consistent members of the Church of England, in which he

has been warden for many years, he being one of the founders of that

Church in the township. He has been a Delegate to the Provincial

Synod, and also to the Diocese and the yearly Synod, and has rilled the

office of Captain of the Militia for many years. He has filled the office

of Magistrate since about 1840, and has ever taken a deep interest in

educational matters, and, in fact, has given substantial aid to all enter-

prises tending to benefit the County. He was largely instrumental in

establishing the Eailroad Station at Glanworth, spending freely his

money and time, his efforts in this matter being greatly appreciated by

his fellow-townsmen. He is now seventy-six years of age, but retains

his mental and physical faculties to a wonderful degree, and gives

promise of spending many more years of usefulness among his friends.

Mr. Jackson's eldest brother, George Jackson, J. P., was first married

to Miss Anne Nesbit Anderson, a lady of great wealth and accomplish-

ments, of London, England, by whom he had seven children, all of

whom have passed away. His second wife was Miss Letitia Herbert,

of Mucross, County Kerry, Ireland, a sister of Admiral Sir Thomas

Herbert, Col. Herbert and Rev. Arthur Herbert, Rector of Trelee. His

brother, William Jackson, Esq., J. P., was married to Miss Willington,

daughter of James Willington, of Castle Wellington, County Tipperary,

Ireland.

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ROBERT W. JACKSON.

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Robert W. Jackson, farmer, of Concession 9, Lot 21, of London

Township, was born on the farm where he now lives, October 23>

1846, and is a son of William and Margaret (Webster) Jackson, both

of whom were born in the " Emerald Isle." The paternal grandfather,

Robert Jackson, immigrated with his family to Canada in 1818, and

after a short residence in Westminster moved to London Township, and

located on Concession 7, Lot 19, where he received a free grant to 100

acres of Government land, which was very heavily covered with

timber. He was one of the first settlers of the Township, and he and

his sons cleared their farm and soon had it under good cultivation.

Here the grandparents died. William Jackson was only eight years-

of age when brought to Canada, and, as the country was in a very

primitive state at that time, his early days were attended with many

hardships and privations. By his own energy and judicious manage-

ment he became the owner of a good farm, on which he died in 1876,

preceded by his wife's death several years. Seven of their nine

children are living. Their son Robert W. has resided on a farm all

his life, the greater portion of his education being secured in the schools-

of London. He has held a number of offices of trust, being Deputy-

Reeve of London Township four years and school trustee twelve years.

In 1887 he was a candidate for M. P., his opponent being J. H,

Marshall, who was elected by a small majority. He is Steward,

Secretary and Treasurer in the Methodist Church, and is a member of

the Masonic Lodge, No. 20, St. Johns, of London. He resides on and

owns the old home farm, and has a beautiful, comfortable and com-

modious residence.

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Michael JACKSON's family may have inherited the surname from a JACKSON slave owner, and yet his ancestor may or may not have been sired by the slave-owner. He may have received the surname because he was considered as the property of a slave owner. He may also have have received the surname for other reasons that had nothing to do with paternity or slavery.

I have never seen anything written on the ancestry of Michael JACKSON, but:

In 2000, the US census reported something like 353,046 black Americans sharing the surname Jackson, almost one in every hundred. Black people made up 53 percent of all Americans named Jackson: only Washington and Jefferson had higher percentages among black Americans, though there are more black Jacksons than all the Washingtons and Jeffersons, black or white, combined. SOURCE:

Alex Hailey, the author of Roots, descended from a JACKSON from Ballybay Co. Monaghan. see: the tree that I did on .

Like many such questions, the history of the JACKSON surname is complex.

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Descendants of Thomas JACKSON of Athgarvan Co Kildare - this is a 20 page document. An annotated family tree as well as info on heraldic clues.

The growing of this tree began with a seed - a chance meeting of two elderly comrades at a reunion of the Kings Own Rifles in England: retired Major John G. JACKSON and retired Major Patrick ROBERTS. The year before, in 2011, I had visited Pat Roberts, his wife June and grandson Jack Stooks in Devon. Roberts was a g-grandson of Sir Thomas JACKSON (1841-1915) and he was the family custodian of his grandmother Amy Oliver JACKSON’s archives.