Birth: 1835 Ascott under Wychwood, Oxfordshire, UK
Father: Thomas Jackson 1805-1890
Mother: Harriet Milton 1805-1846
Christening: 7 June 1835 Ascott under Wychwood, Oxfordshire, UK
Marriage: 21 August 1860 St Mary, Lewisham, Kent, UK
Wife: Mary Ann Canham 1838-1915
Death: April-June 1916 Lewisham, London, UK
William Charles Jackson 1862
Ada Mary Jackson 1864
Thomas R Jackson 1866
Edith Hannah Jackson [Luff] 1868-1923
Harry Jackson 1871
Charlotte Elizabeth Jackson 1873
Jessie Florence Jackson 1877
Arthur Edward Jackson 1878
Alice Jackson c1860
Sydney Arthur Jackson 1882
Another child died before 1911 as well as one of the above.
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for William Jacksons (sic) baptised on 7 June 1835 at Ascot-Under Wychwood, Oxford, parents Thomas and Harriet Jacksons.
Entry in Ancestry Oxfordshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1915 for William Jackson baptised on 7 June 1835 at Ascott under Wychwood, Oxfordshire, parents Thomas and Harriet Jackson. "Page 41 Baptisms in the Parifh of Ascott-sub-Wychwood in the County of Oxford in the Year 1835 [...] June 7 No. 324 William Son of Thomas, a Cordwainer, and Harriet Jackson of Ascot".
In the 1841 census as William Jackson aged 6, born in Oxfordshire,and living with his Thomas (father?), Harriet (mother?), Ann, Elizth, Frances, Julia and Sarah (sisters?) ) in London Lane, Ascott under Wychwood, Oxfordshire.
His mother died in 1846.
In the 1851 census as William Jackson aged 15, born in Ascott, Oxfordshire, a cordwainer, and living with his widowed father (Thomas), brother (Charles) and two sisters (Julia and Sarah) in London Lane, Ascott under Wychwood, Oxfordshire. Another family shared the same address.
Marriage of William Jackson and Mary Ann Canham in FreeBMD in July-September 1860 in Lewisham (1d 1024).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1931 for William Jackson, father Thomas Jackson, and Mary Ann Canham on 21 August 1860 at St Mary, Lewisham. "Page 186 [...] 1860 Marriage solemnized at S Mary's Church in the Parish of Lewisham in the County of Kent. No. 272 21st August 1860 William Jackson, of full age, a Bachr and Bootmaker of Lewisham, father Thomas Jackson, a Bootmaker, and Mary Ann Canham of full age, a Spinster of Lewisham, father Robert Canham (decd), a ?. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church by Licence".
In the 1861 census as William Jackson aged 28, born in Ascott, Oxfordshire, a bootmaker, and living with his wife (Mary) at 2 ?, Sydenham, Lewisham, Kent. Another family shared the same address.
In the 1871 census as William Jackson aged 35, born in Oxfordshire, a bootmaker, and living with his wife (Maryann), three sons (Harry, Thomas R and William C) and two daughters (Ada M and Edith H) at 21 Clyde Terrace, Forest Hill, Lewisham, Kent.
His children were born in Forest Hill up to 1873 and in East Molesey from 1877.
In the 1881 census as Willam Jackson aged 45, born in Ascot, Oxfordshire, a bootmaker, and living with his wife (Mary), three sons (Alfred, Harry and Thomas), and four daughters (Alice, Clara, Edith and Jessie) at 22 Hurst Road, East Molesey, Surrey.
In the 1891 census as Willam Jackson aged 56, born in Oxfordshire, a bootmaker, married but not living with his wife, and living with three sons (Alfred, Arthur, and Harry), and three daughters (Alice, Clara, and Jessie) and a lodger (Henry Canham aged 41, born in Sydenham, Kent, married and a cab driver (groom)) at 81 Willow Walk, Sydenham, Lewisham, London.
In the 1901 census as William Jackson aged 66 (but not in the index), born in Ascot, Oxfordshire, a bootmaker working on his own account at home, and living with his wife (Mary W) and daughter (Jessie) at 81 Willow Walk, Sydenham, Lewisham, London.
In the 1911 census as William Jackson aged 75, born in Ascott, a shoe maker, and visiting with his wife (Mary Ann) Edward Hanion (aged 61, born in Dundalk, Ireland, married but not living with his wife, and a kennel man in vet surgeon), his son (George Frederick aged 7 and born in London), and daughter (Grace May aged 7and born in Wendover, Buckingham) in four rooms at 14 Norland Stables, Notting Hill W, Kensington, London.
Death of William Jackson in FreeBMD in April-June 1916 aged 80 in Lewisham (1d 1162).
There are five entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for William Jackson born in Ascott under Wychwood, Oxfordshire in 1835, parents Thomas Jackson and Harriet Milton in three, his marriage to Maryann in three, one giving his wife as Mary Ann Early, and up to eleven children include a Vincent which is probably incorrect.
Note Lewisham was transfered from Kent to London in 1889.
William Jackson was the father of Edith Hannah Jackson, wife of Henry George Luff, my half second cousin once removed.
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