NOTE: This is merely the start of a work in progress - trying to learn more about these men and who their families may have been. I am particularly interested in the ones with Quaker links.
Sharon Oddie Brown. January 26, 2010.
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JACKSON Freemen in Dublin
SOURCE: An
Alphabetical List of Freeman of the City of Dublin Commencing
January, 1774, and ending 15th January, 1824. The Irish Ancestor. Vol. XV, Nos.
1 and 2 1983
NOTE: There
are other sources that I have yet to get to. John Gilbert's Calendar
of Ancient Records of Dublin listed those who were admitted on the basis of special
requests or else for services rendered. Apparently the Assembly
Rolls in the City Hall, Dublin, also includes further information as does a list held at
the Genealogical Office, Dublin (Mss.
490-3). J.J. Webb's The
Guilds of Dublin.
Men
(always men in those days) who were the rank and file tradesmen and craftsmen were admitted
in various ways:
- Birth –
if they were the eldest surviving son of a freeman.
- Service –
after completing an apprenticeship to a Dublin freeman of the trade listed
beside their name under the column for Corporation.
- “Grace
Especial” – this would be by special request, done as a favour or a
recommendation.
- Gratis –
in other words admitted for free by special arrangement and without the
payment of fees.
- Honorary
– this list does not include these names.
I have sorted the table first by year, and then beneath, by
Corporation and then year. This way, it is easier to see the patterns that may
indicate relationships (since families and trades often seemed to coincide). As
I learn more about these various JACKSONs, I will add more notes and footnotes.
Sorted by year
Name |
Date |
Year |
Corporation |
How Admitted
& My Notes |
Jackson, William |
Michaelmas |
1774 |
Tailor |
“Service” |
Jackson, Joseph |
Midsummer |
1775 |
Goldsmith |
“Service” |
Jackson, William |
Christmas |
1778 |
Plumber |
“Service” |
Jackson, Luke R. |
Christmas |
1783 |
Smith |
“Grace Especial” There may be a McNEIL connection. |
Jackson, William |
Michaelmas |
1783 |
Hosier |
“Service” |
Jackson, Richard |
Michaelmass |
1786 |
Hosier |
“Birth” |
Jackson, Robert |
Michaelmass |
1786 |
Hosier |
“Birth” |
Jackson, Samuel |
Michaelmass |
1789 |
Weaver |
“Grace Especial” |
Jackson, William |
Michaelmass |
1789 |
Weaver |
“Service” |
Jackson, John |
Easter |
1790, |
Stationer |
“Service” |
Jackson, Christopher |
Easter |
1790, |
Stationer |
“Service” |
Jackson, James |
Michaelmass |
1790, |
Merchant |
“Grace Especial” |
Jackson, Zachariah |
Easter |
1792, |
Stationer |
“Grace Especial” |
Jackson, Josua |
Michaelmass |
1792, |
Weaver |
“Grace Especial” |
Jackson, Caleb |
Michaelmass |
1792, |
Weaver |
“Grace Especial” |
Jackson, Thomas |
Midsummer |
1799, |
Stationer |
“Grace Especial” |
Jackson, Alexander |
Michaelmass |
1803, |
City at large |
|
Jackson, Hugh |
Michaelmass |
1806, |
Merchant |
“Service” |
Jackson, Strettle |
Christmas |
1807, |
Weaver |
“Birth” NOTE: A will was probated for a
Strettle JACKSON of Peterboro (1810).
One of the Quaker line in Youghal, Co. Cork JACKSONs |
Jackson, Jacob |
Michaelmas |
1807, |
City at large |
|
Jackson, Joseph D. |
Easter |
1812, |
Weaver |
“Birth”. |
Jackson, John |
Michaelmas |
1813, |
Smith |
“Service” |
Jackson, Robert |
Christmas |
1814, |
Tailor |
“Grace Especial” |
Jackson, Joseph |
Michaelmas |
1816, |
Weaver |
“Birth”. |
Jackson, Samuel |
Midsummer |
1819, |
Weaver |
“Birth”. |
Jackson, George |
Midsummer |
1821, |
City at large |
|
Jackson, John |
Michaelmas |
1822, |
Tailor |
“Birth”. |
Sorted by Corporation.
Name |
Date |
Year |
Corporation |
How Admitted |
Jackson, Alexander |
Michaelmass |
1803, |
City at large |
|
Jackson, Jacob |
Michaelmas |
1807, |
City at large |
|
Jackson, George |
Midsummer |
1821, |
City at large |
|
Jackson, Joseph |
Midsummer |
1775 |
Goldsmith |
“Service” |
Jackson, William |
Michaelmas |
1783 |
Hosier |
“Service” |
Jackson, Richard |
Michaelmass |
1786 |
Hosier |
“Birth” |
Jackson, Robert |
Michaelmass |
1786 |
Hosier |
“Birth” |
Jackson, James |
Michaelmass |
1790, |
Merchant |
“Grace Especial” |
Jackson, Hugh |
Michaelmass |
1806, |
Merchant |
“Service” |
Jackson, William |
Christmas |
1778 |
Plumber |
“Service” |
Jackson, Luke R. |
Christmas |
1783 |
Smith |
“Grace Especial” |
Jackson, John |
Michaelmas |
1813, |
Smith |
“Service” |
Jackson, John |
Easter |
1790, |
Stationer |
“Service” |
Jackson, Christopher |
Easter |
1790, |
Stationer |
“Service” |
Jackson, Zachariah |
Easter |
1792, |
Stationer |
“Grace Especial” |
Jackson, Thomas |
Midsummer |
1799, |
Stationer |
“Grace Especial” |
Jackson, William |
Michaelmas |
1774 |
Tailor |
“Service” |
Jackson, Robert |
Christmas |
1814, |
Tailor |
“Grace Especial” |
Jackson, John |
Michaelmas |
1822, |
Tailor |
“Birth”. |
Jackson, Samuel |
Michaelmass |
1789 |
Weaver |
“Grace Especial” |
Jackson, William |
Michaelmass |
1789 |
Weaver |
“Service” |
Jackson, Josua |
Michaelmass |
1792, |
Weaver |
“Grace Especial” |
Jackson, Caleb |
Michaelmass |
1792, |
Weaver |
“Grace Especial” |
Jackson, Strettle |
Christmas |
1807, |
Weaver |
“Birth” |
Jackson, Joseph D. |
Easter |
1812, |
Weaver |
“Birth”. |
Jackson, Joseph |
Michaelmas |
1816, |
Weaver |
“Birth”. |
Jackson, Samuel |
Midsummer |
1819, |
Weaver |
“Birth”. |
Calendar of ancient records
of Dublin in the possession of the municipal corporation of that city. Gilbert,
John Thomas, Sir, 1829-1898, ed., Gilbert, Rosa M. 1841-1921., Weldrick, John
Francis. Published in 1889, by authority of the Municipal council J. Dollard; (Dublin). See also: The Irish Statute Staple Books, 1596-1687. Jane Ohlmeyer
& Éamonn Ó Ciardha, editors. Four Courts Press. 1999.
Luke
JACKSON
- Material for a McNeale Pedigree. Published in The Irish Genealogist Vol I, No. II 1942 p327-333. DANIEL MCNEILL,
Doctor of Medicine, Monaghan. Son Henry. Nephews Revd. Daniel and John McNeill. Cousin Mrs. Eliza Brother John McNeill. Cousin Luke Jackson
- NOTE: His showing up as a Smith may have represented
a change in career to a craft that required less fine motor control (and
because of the melting of scrap metal to make type, may have been
connected). A Luke JACKSON had been an engraver , copperplate printer, and
print seller at the following places: 6
Upper Quay, 1776; 23 Skinner Row, 1777; 5 East Cole alley, 1778-1779; 19
Abbey St, 1780-1783
- 1775 10 Jun engaged,
married Hannah Rhames, both of Upper Blind Quay … she was related to Benjamin
Rhames, music seller
- On February 6th, 1782, the floor of
Music hall collapsed at guild meeting to nominate the Parliamentary
candidate and Luke Jackson’s arm was broken … this accident appears to
have ended his career as an engraver. SOURCE: A Dictionary of Members of the
Dublin Book Trade 1550-1800: Based on the Records of the Guild of St. Luke the
Evangelist, Dublin. Mary Pollard, Oxford University Press, 2000
John JACKSON.
- 1781 21 Nov, John Jackson,
with consent of mother Esther, of Ballytore, Co. Kildare, apprenticed to
Benjamin Keightley … NOTE: This ties him in to the JACKSONs of Ballitore,
Co. Kildare. They were Quakers who had moved from Mountmellick. SOURCE: A Dictionary of Members of the Dublin Book Trade
1550-1800:
Based on the Records of the Guild of St. Luke the Evangelist, Dublin. Mary
Pollard, Oxford University Press, 2000.p. 313
- Following
up on the Ballitore connection: Richard
JACKSON’s descendants later moved to Ballitore (with William BARCROFT
& John PIM. They became involved in agriculture and Mountmellick
soon became the leading Quaker colony outside of Dublin. .... The access
of Quakers to land in Co. Kildare and Co. Carlow was twofold; either they
acquired it by grant as in the case of ex-Cromwellian soldiers, or those
who objected to this practices (as in the case of General William
Barcroft, who refused a grant of land as it had been acquired by the
sword) on religious ground settled on land hitherto uncultivated. NOTE:
earlier version of Ballitore was recorded as the townland of Ballitoivre. The
geographic location of Carlow monthly meeting district extended from the
town of Athy in south Co. Kildare to Tullow in Co. Carlow, Its development
followed the course of the river Barrow and later it extended eastwards to
encompass the newly established village of Ballitore in the early
eighteenth century. This triangular-shaped region incorporated the four
adjoining baronies ... Narragh and Reban in Co. Kildare. Where a meeting
house was built in Athy and Ballitore in 1708; and Kilkea and Moone where
a meeting house was built at Castledermot. In Co. Carlow meeting-houses
were built at Newgarde (later Carlow) and Newtown in the barony of Idrone,
and lastly at Kilconner, in 1678 in the barony of Forth. Graveyards were
built in Newgarden and Ballykeally in Co. Carlow and at Ballitore in Co.
Kildare....10 of the original Cromwellian planters (four of whom
were ex-Cromwellian soldiers) settled during the first period, 1650-1675.
They did not make a significant impact on the area, as five of the
original families had left the area by 1700, and by 1725 all their
surnames had disappeared from the Quaker registers. .... Robert Lecky
land transactions ... The other Quakers such as ... and Jacksons faded
into oblivion – presumably they migrated or married non-Quakers, with
resulted in their disownment. SOURCE: Journal of the Co. Kildare Archaeological Society
1991 Vol 17 #1Quakerism in the
Carlow/Kildare Area 1650-1850 p133
Christopher JACKSON Probably part of Jackson & Co.
- Jackson, Christopher 1770-1793
Bookseller, auctioneer. Free or admitted 1790, worked at 32 Skinner Rd.
1777-; 4 then 26 (1781) Anglesea st, Oct 1779-1782-, Essex st, 1781-. With
John Beatty 1777.
- 1770 15 Jan with consent of
mother Isabella, milliner apprenticed to James Williams. List of
publications included Sorrows of Werter by Goethe, Letter from
Edmunde Burke in vindication of his conduct produced for P.
Byrne … letter commending Christopher Jackson for rescuing this “from
Obscurity”.offers 10 gns reward for discovery of person who threw stones
into his auction room in Essex st injuring a gent during sale (HJ)…. It
seems likely that Christopher Jackson failed in business after three years
of intense activity and an inventiveness worthy of his former master, J.
Williams. 1787 15 Dec memorial of agreement: Christopher Jackson to act as
clerk and shopkeeper to Anthony Gerna. … produced for Christopher Jackson Considerations on religion and public education. SOURCE: A Dictionary of Members of the Dublin Book Trade
1550-1800:
Based on the Records of the Guild of St. Luke the Evangelist, Dublin. Mary
Pollard, Oxford University Press, 2000.p. 310
Zachariah JACKSON is one of the Quaker JACKSONs
active in the printing trades in Dublin.
- When he was the publisher of a large leather-bound Bible, he was at 18 Great Ship-Street, Dublin, in
1793.
- 1793 Thomas Clements, engraver - plates signed in both
volumes, Kennicott’s Universal family Bible per Z. Jackson. George
Grierson claimed this infringed his patent right; L. Chancellor was unwilling... case was dismissed… SOURCE: A
Dictionary of Members of the Dublin Book Trade 1550-1800: Based on the Records of the Guild of St. Luke
the Evangelist, Dublin. Mary Pollard, Oxford University Press, 2000. P107
& 256
- He also printed a sheet containing Monody on Louis XVI late King of France”
and other articles on Louis XVI [Printed by Z. Jackson, 18 Great Ship
St. Dublin, 18th C.] (M1819 cited in Manuscript Sources for the
History of Irish Civilization, Richard J. Hayes, ed. 1965)
- 1789 married Jane MEREDYTH
(St. Anne, PRS, XI) …. When Zachariah went to France is not clear; he was
presumably there when war was declared in 1803, and perhaps earlier; he
refers variously to 9 and 11 years captivity. Letter from prisoner of war
at Verdun, 2 Jul 1806, says that writer had met only 2 Dubliners amongst
those detained at outset of war, Zachariah Jackson being one (DJ, 5 Sept).
When he reached London is unknown. SOURCE: A Dictionary of
Members of the Dublin Book Trade 1550-1800: Based on the Records of the
Guild of St. Luke the Evangelist, Dublin. Mary Pollard, Oxford University
Press, 2000.
Thomas JACKSON.
- He was a Bookseller, circulating library and lottery office
keeper. Free 1799. 4 Essex gate 1784-1789; 23 Parliament st Nov 1789-1800; 3
Sackville st Mar 1800-1807.
- 1784 19 Apr, Universal Circulating Library: above 10,000
vols bought at great expence from W. Spotswood, with book selling,
printing, stationary at 4 Essex Gate; .. 20 May 1784 married Jane Cash
(St. Mary, PRS, XII, 38) SOURCE: A Dictionary of Members of the
Dublin Book Trade 1550-1800: Based on the Records of the Guild of St. Luke the
Evangelist, Dublin. Mary Pollard, Oxford University Press, 2000. P315
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