Jacksons of Windrush

[duport]

MDean,
I would have liked to send you a map showing the 2 properties, Cockburys and Lammerys, but it's not as simple as attaching an image, like on an email!
So, Cockburys is now called Cockleberries, and is on the N side of the Windrush-Sherborne road, almost opposite the village hall. Lammerys is now called Ley Mary Farm, and is on the W side of the same road, just after it heads NW after the village green. They are both shown on the 1978 1:2500 OS map.
The Gloucestershire Archives records that deal with Windrush are mostly from Lord Sherborne's estate, and are listed under D678/1 T1/18. If you search the Gloucestershire Archives website for "Jackson Windrush" you'll get most of the documents that relate to the family.

[MDean]

Hi there,

Many thanks, Duport,  for the details. I think I have found Cockleberries on the 'gohistoric.com' website, next to The Barn. It seems that Ley Mary Farm may have been up for sale until recently, too.

I have put my photo (it may have gone on twice) of Rowland and Mary's Gravestone on 'britishlistedbuildings.co.uk'   It comes up easiest searching for 'Annathe Newman Windrush'. It can be copied into a different program - perhaps there is someone out there with a brilliant piece of software that makes it more legible!

Best Wishes,

MDean

[duport]

Yes, part of Ley Mary Farm was for sale. You could probably find details if you could find the estate agent.
Both your photos are on the listed buildings site - I have a similar one. I have tried changing the contrast and brightness and so on, but nothing made any improvement. What is needed is a photo taken with the light at a very shallow angle.
Have you seen the monument to Thomas & Elizabeth Jackson inside the church?

[MDean]

Hi Duport,

Yes, I found the marble stone dedicated to Thomas and Elizabeth, but hadn't looked at the photo fully. It's interesting that he was twenty years older than his wife.

It has got me thinking that Rowland could have been older than Mary. (Who I think is Mary Poulton, baptised at Cirencester in 1706.) Would he have had to have been at least 21 to have been granted a lease, I wonder?

Do you have any death information about Joseph Jackson (b 1675/6), his wife Mary, or his parents Thomas and Susanna?

[duport]

MDean,
I believe you have the correct marriage for Rowland. The Cirencester marriage to Mary POULTON gives him as 'of Windridge'. I too would have thought he'd have had to be over 21 to be given a lease, or to engage in any other financial dealings.
The Windrush parish records have Joseph Jackson bur. 29 August 1743, and Mary bur. 10 July 1730. Oddly, I don't have anything on the deaths of Thomas & Susanna.

[MDean]

Thanks for that. I'll keep looking and keep you posted.

[MDean]

Hi Duport,

Have you ever looked at the Jackson family in Southam, Warwickshire? They have several 'Rowlands' but also a Thomas born in 1655 (who then 'disappears').

I have tried to make a Windrush connection, but have not been successful.

MDean

[duport]

MDean, I wasn't aware of the Jacksons in Warwickshire. Is there any evidence of stone masons in their records?
Another avenue I haven't pursued yet is to look for early apprenticeship records of the Windrush Jacksons. I have Anthony's apprenticeship to his father Thomas in 1793, but nothing else. Rowland's and Joseph's (1676) would be revealing.

[MDean]

Hi there,

Still no luck finding Rowland's baptism, although the Windrush PRs I can access are very patchy between 1686 and 1694 (perhaps the Record Office has better). Is Victor able to help, please?

However I have spotted an older Rowland Jackson (or Roulandi Jackesone) who was Church Warden in 1665 and 1668, and whose wife Joane (or Jone or Joannae) died in 1669. It seems they married at Sherborne in 1635 and had a son, Thomas, in 1640.

Could this be the Thomas who married Susanna about 1671?
Was Rowland junior their child, born about 1690 and named after his grandfather?
Does this family link in with William Jackson, vicar of Windrush until his death in 1617?

Any comments/ideas/help would be grateful please. Thanks.