• GORE family of Ireland. There are 264 members of the GORE family listed here - as well as hundreds of other people. This is my first stab at creating this family tree, and there are bound to be errors. Correction is always welcomed - please email me at Contact link above. My purpose in assembling the tree was to find the mother of Rev. William JACKSON (1737-1795) - the well known United Irishman. I still do not know the surname of his maternal grandmother - and would love to find out. Updated significantly December 17, 2019.
• Jacksons of Tobermore. This is a start on making sense of the likely ancestry and connections of the JACKSONs of Tobermore - possibly connected to JACKSONs of Coleraine  as well as several lines of JACKSONs in Co. Down. If new evidence comes to light, some of my assumptions may need to change. I look forward to learning from the insight of others.

NOTE: On the premise that birds of a feather fly together, connections to Co. Kildare are likely worthy of more attention, as are connections to Drogheda. Also, intermarriages to the BALL and CROFTON families. The JACKSONs of Coleraine shared marriages with these two families in the late 1600s and early 1700s.

Birch Family - Five Generations Early 1700s - This document is some 20 pages long with 420 footnotes and gives a detailed family tree for the descendants of James BIRCH and Mary JACKSON from the early 1700s until the middle of the 20th Century. No living persons are included. It was prepared by Wendy Jack of Australia.

BREAKEY This tree is likely filled with errors - particularly in the early years. Please consult it with that in mind. There is better and more complete information to be found at a web site called The Breakey Collection. In time, I shall put it all to rights.

August 11, 2008
August 20, 2008

HSBC & connections to China, Hong Kong & Japan- Family trees related to the early years of people serving with HSBC.

• SEXTON-NOBLE. On this page, I have posted the outlines of two family trees. The first is of George Edward NOBLE. The second is that of his wife, Frances Bertha Marion “Daisy” Sexton. I have also posted pieces about both of them on my blog.
• JOHNSTONS of Ballykilbeg, Co. Down. The purpose of this tree for me is to show the roots of Lewis Audley Marsh JOHNSTON, Postmaster-General of Hong Kong in 1902- 1908

JACKSONs: There are now more than three dozen JACKSON family trees posted to my web site, so I have indexed them on a separate page: JACKSON FAMILY TREES:

NOTE: My interest is in tracing the connections of JACKSONs from England and Scotland who settled in Ireland, as well as the interconnections between the various lines of JACKSONs who lived in Ireland. I am also interested in those whose family arms included the image of three birds, preferably shovellers or sheldrakes aka shelducks. There is a strong likelihood – albeit proof is a work in progress - that these JACKSONs are all related - albeit distantly. Currently, my main family file at rootsweb contains the most updated versions of the several of the family trees listed beneath since they link to my central tree in one way or another. When one family connects into the larger picture, then I import that tree. Check the rootsweb site for the most up to date versions of all tree, but in particular:

- JACKSONs of Liscalgot & Urker, Parish of Creggan, Co. Armagh
- JACKSONs of Coleraine tree and
- JACKSONs of Enniscoe and Carramore, Co. Mayo.
- JACKSONs of Duddington

·         The marriage of a Sarah Jane JACKSON (1816-1901) to Andew Foulis McMATH (?- bet 1901-1906). Her father James JACKSON was James JACKSON (b. abt 1786) of Clones and Mary KIDD (abt 1786-1860) of Keady (both linen families). SEE: Keady KIDDs. James & Mary married at Armagh Presbyterian in 1796, and had 13 children, but only 6 of them had been named in the available records. Sarah Jane JACKSONs dates are a perfect fit to be one of the unnamed children, as is her family’s social class and presence in Castleblayney.

·         Two of Sarah & Andrew’s children – Mary & Sophia - were baptised in the early 1840s at Creggan Parish Church. Their parents resided at Urker Lodge, home of my family of JACKSONs. One would assume that Sarah had a close family connection to the widow Elizabeth JACKSON née McCULLAGH (1788-1880) who lived there in the early 1840s. Who else lived at Urker then? Two of Elizabeth’s daughters Sarah JACKSON (1811-1892) and Elizabeth Johanna JACKSON (1817-1900). Elizabeth’s son David JACKSON (1814-1889) was already married and living with his wife Eliza née OLIVER (1815-1903) at Aughaville, Co. Leitrim while another daughter Margaret JACKSON (1815-1895) had married. Rev. Daniel Gunn BROWN and were likely living at Newtownhamilton. They had married at the Presbyterian Church in Ballybay, Co. Monaghan.

·         One of Andrew & Sarah’s daughters – Elizabeth - married a Burton JACKSON of Co. Clare, a line of JACKSONs that may have ties to the JACKSONs of Urker. HUNCH: Since Burton’s father was a Capt John JACKSON (1780-1822), son of a John JACKSON, Burton’s grandfather may be the John JACKSON (b. aft 1744-d aft 1805) of Urker, son of George JACKSON & Margaret O’LAUGHLIN.

·         Andrew Foulis McMATH (1812-1875), as a manager of the Belfast Bank in Castleblayney may have been the family connection which led to Sir Thomas JACKSON (1844-1915) – who grew up at nearby Urker – being hired at the Belfast Branch of the Bank of Ireland at age 19 (in 1860).

·         Both the JACKSONs and the McMATHs intermarried with McKEEs and both held leases of land at Tullyvallen, Co. Armagh. Richard JACKSON (1778-1848) of Liscalgot (a townland adjacent to Urker) married Sarah McKEE. Their daughter Sarah, married an Archibald BIGGAM and therefore was not Sarah Jane McMATH.