JACKSON Crests and/or Arms NOTE: There are distinctions between crests and arms, although I sometimes use the terms interchageably on this site. If you want to better understand the distinctions, please check out the College of Arms, and in particular, the page that describes how armorial bearings are inherited.
Sources of descriptions of arms or family crests in the following table.
A Glossary of Terms used in Heraldry
Also of interest given the descriptions of some of the aforementioned crests, this from The History of the Ancient Parish of Sandbach, Co. Chester including the two Chapelries of Holmes Chapel and Goostrey: From Original Records. J.P. Earwaker, M.A. F.S.A. Privately published, 1890. p38 [p.66 in pdf version]. This JACKSON family had a long presence in the area[19].
In the south aisle a white mural monument (the inscription in capitals), surmounted by an urn and a shield of arms (which has been repainted) Quarterly, 1 and 4, Gules a fess Argent between three birds (? swans) Or ; 2 and 3, Or on a bend Gules three crosses patée fitchée of the first: Sacred to the memory of Richard Jackson[20] Esq. of Betchton House in this parish, who died in September 1718 : and of Elizabeth his wife, the only daughter of William Oldfield[21] Esq and Letitia his wife, who died December 24 1769: also of the Rev. Richard Jackson, D.D. Canon of York, Lichfield and Chester, and only son of the above Richard Jackson Esq. who died November 12 1796 : and of Ann his wife, daughter of Dr. Richard Smalbroke Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry ; who died April 6 1785 : also of The rev. Richard Oldheld Jackson LL.B. Vicar of Colwitch and Longdon, in the county of Stafford and only son of the above Richard and Ann Jackson
VARIOUS JACKSON TREES OF INTEREST:
JACKSONs of Carramore– three hawks heads.
JACKSON of Doncaster three shovellers on the crest SEE: Mary L. Jackson Tree
Jacksons of Brisbane On top of a six pointed mullet (star) an eagle. Son of Henry JACKSON of Marnaharin, cos Monaghan and Dublin, Ireland b. ? d. m. Mary Anne d. of William WHITE of Drumgavney, Co. Monaghan.
SOURCE: Armorial Families.
Jacksons of Duddington – Note the tie in to Jackson of Eagle House – three eagles heads. Also note link to HAWKINS. Also note that there are Duddington JACKSON links to Ireland noted in Manuscripts Sources for the History of Irish Civilization.
Jackson of Forkhill – three shovellers tufted on the head and breast. Part of the Coleraine JACKSON tree.
Jacksons of County Down. At one of their burials, they have the same Mullets (stars) as this William JACKSON of Dublin - who may be connected to Robert JACKSON of Crooked Staff - Descendants. and/or Michael JACKSON, Clothier of Pimlico.
Jackson of Coleraine: Jackson -- Coleraine, County Londonderry; fun. Established 1688, William Jackson, son of Rev. Richard Jackson of Whittington County Lancaster by Dorothy Otway wife, daughter of Sir John Otway knight of Ingmire. Gu a fess betw. Three cormorants ar. It is curious to me that the bird here is said to be a cormorant. Recently, I was sent some photos of paintings of one of Richard and Dorothy's sons, John JACKSON whose daughter Anne JACKSON married Adam DOWNING.
Jackson of Ballybay – (NOTE: The following is thanks to the thorough investigation by Bill Farrell and other members of his extended family)
Going from a picture on the family silver, which shows three eagles and the motto Virtute et Valore, it would suggest a connection of the Ballybay JACKSONs to:
[1] “The Sheldrake appears occasionally under another name i.e. that of the Shoveller, and as such will be found in the arms of Jackson of Doncaster.” SOURCE: p246 Arthur Charles Davies, A complete Guide to Heraldry. 2008. “The Sheldrake and Shoveller are also very scarce in Armoury. The former is very similar to the common duck, but of more varied colour. The latter is of the same species, and my be known by a long tuft on the breast, and another on the head”. SOURCE: W. Sloane Sloane-Evans, Grammar of British Heraldry, 2nd Ed. London 1854. [2] Conversation with Venetia Bowman-Vaughan. NOTE: There is no such thing as a 'coat of arms for a surname'. Many people of the same surname will often be entitled to completely different coats of arms, and many of that surname will be entitled to no coat of arms. Coats of arms belong to individuals. For any person to have a right to a coat of arms they must either have had it granted to them or be descended in the legitimate male line from a person to whom arms were granted or confirmed in the past. SOURCE: College of Arms: http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/Faq.htm [3] SOURCE: Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage. [corroborated by my own research and family lore.] [4] Georgia May 4, 1778 $30 PMG Choice Very Fine 35. This bright note with nice margins also has bold signatures. One of the signers, William Few, was to become a signer of the United States Constitution in 1787. The lower two-thirds of the boar vignette is strong, but it is weak at the upper right. The phrase on the back, AUT MORS, AUT VICTORIA LAETA, means either death or victory is pleasing. SOURCE: http://currency.ha.com/common/auction/catalogprint.php?SaleNo=38122&src= Continental Currency May 10, 1775 $4 PMG Choice Very Fine 35. The emblem on the $4 notes is a wild boar charging into a spear with the motto AUT MORS AUT VITA DECORA (either death or an honorable life). James Milligan and James Read were the signers on this boldly printed example. The interesting nature print is skeletonized maple fruit. http://currency.ha.com/common/auction/catalogprint.php?SaleNo=3503&src= [5] SOURCE: A grammar of British heraldry, consisting of blazon and marshalling ; with an introduction on the rise and progress of symbols and ensigns. By William Sloane Sloane-Evans. Edition: 2 Published by J.R. Smith, 1854 Original from Harvard University Digitized Sep 11, 2007 190 pages See also: Ducks can elude their enemies in many ways, either by flying, running, swimming or diving for cover; therefore, they are a symbol for a person of many resources. Ducks may be referred to by many names such as drake, mallard, teal, eider-duck, moorhen, and sheldrake. See also GANNET and MARTLET. SOURCE: http://www.heraldryandcrests.com/heraldic_symbols.htm [6] Email June 21 2009 John Giaco. [7] The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.Vol II. Bernard Burke. 1878, London.
[8] Mary L. Jackson Jackson, Beard and Allied Families Prepared and Privately Printed for Mary L. Jackson by the American Historical Society, Inc. New York 1925. Her focus is a line of JACKSONs connected to Doncaster. http://www.archive.org/stream/jacksonbeardalli00amer#page/n35/mode/2up [9] "I prefer to die than to be dishonored" Motto: "Malo Mori Quam Foedari" Translation: "Death rather than disgrace" [10] Intro: Arms — Gules, three shovelers tufted on head and breast argent, each charged with trefoil vert. Crest — A shoveler as in arms. [11] James JACKSON (1790-?0 [12] One version of our JACKSON family history has them coming from Northamptonshire in Elizabeth’s reign. The Duddington JACKSONs are connected to the JACKSONs of Limerick. SOURCES: · Dublin: Genealogical Office Ms 171, pp 507-14; Pedigree of Jackson of Duddington in Lincolnshire, of Fanningstown, Co. Limerick 1630-1832.
· NOTE: Deed: 74-211-50840 1732/3 Jan 17 JACKSON Francis Doddington [sic – Duddington], Co Northton Indented deed, Assignment between John ROSE of Catherstock, Co of Northton, Esq made over to John CROKER all that the manor or lordship of Mountkenny + other lands in Co Wicklow [....several townlands incl townland of Jonestown] for residue of term from Lease & Release of 3 Jun 1730. NAMES: John ROSE, Catherstock, Co. Northton; Sir Wm DUDLEY Bart, Clayton Co. Northton; John CROKER, Gent, Dublin; Francis JACKSON (Witness to deed & Memorial), Gent, Doddington, Co. Northton. NOTE: This may be the Francis JACKSON d 1744, 2nd surviving son of Thomas JACKSON of Duddington Hall. · JACKSON, F. Goddard. ''Catalogue of the Jackson (Duddington) Collection''. Northampton: Northamptonshire Record Office, 1960. NUI Galway http://www.landedestates.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/refsource-show.jsp?id=686 · The first known member of this line of JACKSONs granted Arms was Thomas JACKSON (1692) of Duddington. [13] I still need to determine which of the various Fanningstown townlands this might be: There is one in the Parish of Particles, one in Fedamore and one in Adare.NOTE: In the Parish of Ballingarry, the townland of Lisduane was the home of Miles JACKSON as early as 1655. His sons were Miles JACKSON jr. & Clifford Walker JACKSON. His daughter Fanny probably married George MONCTON. SOURCE: P 16-17 Monckton of Co. Limerick. Brian De Breffny. The Irish Ancestor, Vol. IV, No. 1, 1972. [14] p13. SIR JOHN JACKSON, baronet in 1660 by creation of King Charles II, married (first), Catherine Booth, daughter of George Booth, of Dunham, Massey. He married (second), Lucy Jopson, widow of Sir William Jopson, of Heath Hall. ...In the same County of York a branch of this family has become established at Doncaster and bore as arms: Per pale gules and ermine, cotised argent, between three shovelers of the last, a cross-crosslet between two annulets of the field. Finally a line of this family that claimed a baronetcy was seated at Beach Hill, Surrey, with the following arms: Gules, a fesse between three shovelers tufted on head and breast, argent, each shoveler charged with a trefoil, slipped vert. But it is to the branch of this family known as the Jacksons of Doncaster that John Jackson and his descendants belong. According to the "Dictionary of the Landed Gentry," by John Bernard Burke, Esq., on page 641, the following description is given: "This family resided for several generations on their own property at Fairburn, in the Parish of Ledsham, County York. The parish registers exhibit memorials of them from the year 1542." p19: JAMES JACKSON, of Doncaster, second son of James and Mary (Pease) Jackson, was born in 1734. He married Mary Patrick, daughter of
John Patrick, of Doncaster, and died in 1797. He was twice mayor of Doncaster. Besides his son and successor, James, he left no other issue. [15] Arthur Charles Fox-Davies Armorial Families: A directory of Gentlemen of Coat Armour. London, 1929. p1035. [16] p 13. SIR JOHN JACKSON, Kt., of Hickleton, eldest son and heir, member of Parliament for Pontifract, married (first), Elizabeth Thornhaugh, [17] p7. In the Visitation of London of 1508, Francis Jackson, great-grandson of John Jackson, second son of William Jackson, of Sugthall, or [18] NOTE: The Red-billed Chough or Chough ( chuff), Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, is a bird in the crow family. It was used in heraldry associated with Cornwall. Also, Thomas Becket. Apparently, there was a legend that King Arthur did not die but was turned into a chough. SEE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_chough [19] Various sources: · Conveyance of estates devised by John Jackson of Betchton House, in Betchton, Newton, Tetton, Sproston, Smallwood, Sandbach, Bradwall and Alsager. 16 Jun 1871 Cheshire Record Office DRH 80/22. · Documents relating to Rev Jeffery Williams, Rector of Astbury 1731-1757, including curate's licence in parish church of Sandbach, 1697, probate of will, 1762, deed re Bollington Hall and probate of will of Mary Jackson, his mother-in-law, 1754 1697-1762 Cheshire Record Office DRH 80/6 · Gentlemen’s Magazine and Historical chronicle, Volume 9. 1838, London. P87 John Galley, of Betchton House, in Sandbach, gent, (in memory of his kinswomen Frances and Catherine Day-Jackson, and of his late brother Richard Galley, afterwards Jackson) to take the names of Day-Jackson after Galley. · Francis Randle Twemlow, Twemlows, their wives and their homes from original records. SOURCE: http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/francis-randle-twemlow/twemlows-their-wives-and-their-homes-from-original-records-mew/page-20-twemlows-their-wives-and-their-homes-from-original-records-mew.shtml In 1708 Merriell's tenement [of Betchton Manor] was held by Richard Jackson.... The Jacksons of Thurlwood were a very old Betchton family. I do not know whether the Jacksons who owned Betchton House in the 18th century, and several of whom were in orders, were descended from them. Very possibly it may be so; for in a paper at Delamere of the date of 1681 there is mention made of a Rev. Richard Jackson, son of John Jackson of Thurlwood. Richard Jackson is mentioned in ;^the Inq. p.m. of John Davenport 1557. John Jackson is mentioned in John Twemlow's will of 1621 as being his godson. · Mary Hickson married John Jackson 22 OCT 1778, in Runcorn (between Norton & Frodsham), Cheshire. http://www.hicksons.org/ByCounty/cheshirenames3.html · 1839 Nov 20. COPY WILL of John Galley Day Jackson Esq., of Betchton House within Betchton, Co. Chesire, Esq. Leave his plate and family pictures to his daughter Mary Galley Day Jackson. The rest of his household goods are to be divided equally between his two daughters Mary Galley Day Jackson and Francis Galley Day Jackson. To the trustees, In trust for his daughter Catherine now the wife of Mayosmond Alonso Durant, leaves an annuity of £100 chargeable on his real estate. This annuity is for her sole use, and her husband is not to come near Batchton Bouse. Leaves his freehold and leasehold houses and lands to his trustees Joseph Bullock of Congleton,co. Chestert surgeon and James Skerrett of Sandbach Co.Chester,gent,in trust. His daughter Mary is to have all those lands which formerly belonged to the late Miss Day Jackson and also that property situate on Coldmoso Heath purchased from Eenshalls,Wildings, Kinnerley and Broom's executors, also the property purchased from Mr. Ralph Percival and fields near Betchton Bouse purchased from the late Wm, Lowndes Esq., and Miss Furnival, also all his freehold lands in Ardid and a field in Smallwood, and various tithes purchased from the Rev.Isaac Wood, Also pews In the North Gallery of Sandbach Church. To his daughter Francis he leaves his lands purchased by himself or by his late brother Richard Jackson or by his father Richard Galley situate in the county of Chester and the rest of his freehold and leasehold property. Various provisions In ease of default of issue. His daughter Mary is to lose her share if she marries or cohabits with John Tides. SOURCE: Gwynedd Archives, Caernarfon Record Office. Digitalized by National records Office. NOTE: Jan Waugh points out that the reference made to the three birds by the author of History of the Ancient Parish of Sandbach, and that he thought might be swans could very well be black hawks, which often show up in JACKSON crests, the heads of these birds are shown only from the neck up. [20] Richard JACKSON of Betchton House, Sandbach, Gent bur at Sandbach, 4 Oct 1718. Will dated 11 Sept 1718; proved at Chester 29 Apr 1719. NOTE: It would be interesting to see this will – particularly if it mentions holdings of lands in Ireland. His son Richard, prebendary of York, Lichfield and Chester bapt at Sambach 10 Aug 1713. Married Anne SMALLBROKE (d 1783) – son Richard Oldfield JACKSON d. unmarried. Several children – Anne JACKSON (1706-1749) married William DAY (?-1776) [21] William OLDFIELD –NOTE: a family tree is on p139 The History of the ancient Parish of Sandbach, Co. Chester including the two Chapelries of Holmes Chapel and Goostrey: From Original Records. J.P. Earwaker, M.A. F.S.A.
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