John Jackson - john jackson--coming to the colonies

Lest anyone thinks this is unimportant trivia, one of their descendants was Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, who was anything but unimportant.

The Jackson Brigade has this and a lot more at their website: http://www.jacksonbrigade.com/genealogy-of-john-jackson/

I am trying to 'tie' Elizabeth and John to Louisa Jackson who was born in SURREY in 1847
She immigrated to NZ via South Africa and the US - leaving London in 1861 but not arriving in NZ until 1864. Her father was Joseph Henry Jackson (he died in South Africa aged 40 in 1861and apparently HIS father was Joseph Jonas Jackson
connected - do you think??

"Jackson", literally meaning "Jack's son", is ubiquitous in the English-speaking world, and one of the very worst names to try to document. You might find a connection (though it may not be direct), or you might not.

There's a set of Jacksons from Coleraine, Ireland, who are giving the Lee researchers fits - they're a close enough Y-DNA match that they *might* be distant cousins of the Famous Lees, but they apparently originated in Lancashire, not Shropshire.

Many thanks - yes not easy😊

Funny that with patronymic names and that so many try to trace it as a family name.

Here in Norway we usually make it as a joke that one of the largest FTDNA groups is the Olsen/Olson group trying to find how they are related.

Olsen is simply meaning the son of Ole, - one of the most common first name in the Scandinavia.

Starting around 1850 to 1923 (when a fixed family name was decided by law in Norway) it started to become a frosen patronymic name considered as a family name you could inherit from your father to marry to.

With so many fathers named Ole at that time it is pure luck to find someone with the same Ole as common ancestor.

@ great, grandparents of stonewall Jackson

please check online records from old bailey in London, 1749

also ENGLISH CONVICTS IN COLONIAL AMERICA VOL.1, COPYRIGHT 1974, library of congress #74-75740 p.144

COMPLETE BOOK OF EMIGRANTS IN BONDAGE 1614-1775 Peter Wilson Coldham, 1988, genealogical pub. co, Baltimore, pp.202 and 432

PRECEEDINGS ON THE KINGS COMISSIONS (sic) OF THE PEACE, OVER AND TERMINER, AND GOAL DELIVERY FOR THE CITY OF LONDON-2nd and 4th sessions, London, 1749

apparently they were good workers and did not have to complete their seven years of endenture--so were able to marry in 1755.

I think someone decided they did not want the reputations of this family to be besmirched, so they made up a story that sounded good and no one seems to question it.

as an aside, both john and Elizabeth are considered patriots by the Daughters of the American Revolution