Tag: genealogy

John Peter Jackson 1861 – 1915

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF John Peter Jackson, Bargeman BIRTH John Peter Jackson was born on the on the eighteenth of June, 1861, to Martha Jackson at Amwell End, Ware, in the county of Hertfordshire, in England. Martha’s maiden name was Timson, and her parents were Henry Timson […]

Peter Charles Jackson

From Amwell End to Guisborough: the Life and Times of Peter Charles Jackson My husband’s grandfather, Peter Charles Jackson, was born on the twenty-first of January 1892 in Ware, Hertford, to Martha Jackson (born Bennett) and John Peter Jackson, a Bargeman. Peter was the fourth of six children […]

Wither thou goest, Ancestry?

On Tuesday, 3rd August 2021, I and many other Ancestry users received an email advising me that Ancestry were updating their Privacy Policy. On 4th August, the news reached the #Genealogy community on Twitter, resulting in a kind of virtual ‘meltdown’ by concerned genealogists and family historians. But […]