Thomas Jackson - Horsforth nr Leeds - MMMMF

[JayG]

Originally Posted by Janet

I think I will order Ann's birth cert at the very least, as she is my direct ancestor. How much info is (or is not) on there in 1810? (Mother's maiden name? I'll be lucky in those days if it even has her mother's first name, I suppose.)

I could order Ann's marriage cert too. But marriage cert will not give me her mother's name; will give me father's occupation, though, and Ann Jackson married 6 Aug 1836 so I might see if it still says her father is a clothier (if he's not retired and listed simply as "gentleman", or deceased).

Civil registration started 1 July 1837 so unfortunately you won't be able to get a copy of Ann's birth cert as one won't exist.

A marriage for 1836 will be in a different format to post 1 July 1837 ones, so an 1836 entry would give the bride & groom, the parishes they lived at the time of marriage, whether they were a bachelor, spinster, widow, widower (tho some I have don't give this), whether the marriage was by banns or licence & the names of the witnesses.

[kiterunner]

Originally Posted by Janet

When you say that the marriage is on ancestry now, with witnesses William Musgrave and William Booth (and saying nothing about Thomas being a minor), you mean the marriage of Thomas Jackson and Hannah Stead in 1794 in Guiseley, yes?

Yes, that's right.

I can't see where those tree owners have got 1777 from for Thomas's birth - just a guess, I would think.

[Janet]

Oh duh. Thanks Jay. So prior to 1 July 1837 no kind of certificate exists, not the marriage either? Whatever is to be found is only on the parish registers, I guess.

You were writing while I was posting, Kite. Thanks for looking for that. I'll take "1777" with a grain of salt. So ancestry has extracts from the PRs is what you're saying.

[kiterunner]

Ancestry has the actual images of the PR's for West Yorkshire now.

[Janet]

Wow. Way cool. Well, I think that just made up my mind for me on which sub to get. Thanks!

[Janet]

Well, I'm more inclined to believe that mundia tree now, having combed through all the transcriptions of the Baptism Registers for Horsforth Chapel on GenUKI from 1700 to 1812. (I actually loaded all 4,201 of them into a single Excel spreadsheet for analysis.)

Some of the Stead family in Horsforth are clothiers, as was my MMMMF Thomas Jackson until 1812. But another of those Steads is Paper Maker or Paper Miller by occupation, and this Henry Stead is the father of Hannah Stead. So I think Thomas was perhaps eventually taken into his father-in-law's business and was thereafter a papermaker.

[Janet]

Have found Thomas and his wife Hannah on a gravestone at Rawdon-St Peter's, with several of their children who died young.
http://www.gravestonephotos.com/publ...on&grave=77823

So this will be him:
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?h...c=&pid=8288869

Happy camper.

Oh Janet if they slip further over into Yorkshire the Pickering areas they could be related to Tez's Readman s and Pickering s

[Janet]

I'm creeping closer and closer, Babs. I really thought I had taken a big step in your direction once when it seemed like one of the Jackson girls had moved to Bridlington, but it turned out to be a couple with the same given names as my rellie and her husband.

[Janet]

Bumping this up because I've added new details to post #1 today.