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Hi Pat

WOW, WOW, WOW - it's the first time I have seen a picture of the Jacksons - let alone such a GREAT pictire of my parents wedding.  It should bring back memories for my mum - now 97 years old.  I have been in contact with Sheila but I haven't heard from her since June.  She says that she has traced back to 1790!! Unfortunately she hasn't shared it with me yet.  I've traced back the Jackson family through George and Emma (grandparents), Charles and Emily (great grand parents) to Joseph and Ann (great great grand parents).  Joseph was born in 1832 so I've got a way to go to get to 1790.  I have George's birth Certificate, George and Emma's Wedding Certificate and George and Emma's Death Certificates.
Everything before George and Emma needs to be reconciled but I'm 90% certain it's correct.
George was the last of four children - Alice, William and Annie - born in December 1886 but registered in 1887.  He and Emma married in 1911 and there followed possibly 12 children. (Interestingly, George gave his address as 50 Lincoln Street, Tibshelf, on the Marriage Certificate.  The 1911 census has a William Jackson living there with his wife and children.  That would suggest that George stayed there prior to his wedding and gives credence that William was his brother.)  My dad was third born and Sarah was fifth born.  I have all their names and dates of birth.  I know that the first died before the age of one and there was another child who died young.
Census information has Charles a widower by the time George was 4 and he was being looked after by his grandparents Joseph and Anne.
I'm hoping that someone will buy me a subscription to Genealogy.com so that I can get confirmation of what I have surmised and can get earlier through Parish Records etc.

Sheila gave me her email address on this site but the moderators didn't like it.  After a couple more "posts" I should be able to sen a personal message to you via rootschat and we can talk.

It's really exciting.  I have three cousins on my mother's side but the Jackson's have been a closed book except for a few vague memories of Aunty Josie and Aunty Betty and even vaguer memories of granddad, Fred and Annie.  It seems that there are many cousins out there in the Jackson's family.

By the way, you mentioned Susan.  She went to the Slade where she met her husband Joe Keys.  They moved to Southern Ireland and made a living out of their painting.  She died last year in the prime of her artistic creativity. They have a web site I'm sure and I'll see if I can get it for you.