Love doing this!
Poor Rick.
Married to a woman who loves hanging out in Cemeteries.
Cemeteries here are a little tricky. IF you still find cemeteries that aren't turned into
parks or parking lots, humidity and moss wreak havoc on headstones.
If they exist they can be difficult to read.
But I keep trying.
Because I like it.
And Rick indulges me.
Hampshire
We've gone back to Beaulieu, Boldre (say Bolder), East Boldre,
South Baddesley, and Lymington...
chasing after Gregory ancestors.
(Ann Gregory married John Wilkey.....for those of you a little rusty)
We found George Henry Broom and his wife Anne Gregory in the Beaulieu Cemetery.
Ann holds a special place in my heart, one of those
incredible spiritual experiences that helped me figure out who her
parents were and why she was raised by her grandparents.
Also, I had found 5 of their children and thought I was done.
A few years later, I stumbled upon a 6th. While not even looking. She wanted to be found.
Frank Gregory and Lydia White were found at St Mary the Virgin Church in South Baddesley.
Frank was also raised by these grandparents.
If you want to understand these ancestors better, look them up at
whitefamilytrees.org
We went to many cemeteries, and took lots of pictures...not all are identified yet, but hopefully sometime.
Lunch in East Boldre at the Turfcutters Arms. Charming place.
Yorkshire
Last week we went north to Yorkshire....
Allerton Mauleverer, Green Hammerton, Whixley, Kirk Hammerton.
Twas awesome!
Ann Hughlings Pitchforth (referred to in other blogs), has a sister,
Sarah Hughings who married Samuel Jackson.
(one of the billion and two Samuel Jacksons in Yorkshire)
They lived in this house and brewery, called Providence Green:
which he purchased from his brother, who inherited it from their father, Samuel Jackson.
Poor investing in railroads is what appears to have caused it's sale.
We were directed to the house by a couple of people, but never found it.
(Personally, I think I talked to the owner in her car and she led us on a wild goose chase.)
Oh well, we need to go back because we failed to snap photos of all the headstones
that we found at the Independent Church in Green Hammerton.
This is now St Joseph's Catholic Church. But until 1961 it was the Independent Church of Green Hammerton, of which James Jackson (Samuel's uncle) was the Reverend.
He christened all of Samuel and Sarah's children in this church, and most of his own 13-14.
(still working on that)
If you walk through the door to the left and go straight out the back, you land in a
teeny tiny cemetery that has mostly Jackson headstones.
Unfortunately, we somehow didn't get the photo of Samuel and Sarah's headstone, but there is a piece of it to the left by our new friend Eleanor in the green jacket (she was trying to help me read it). See the windows in the back? They are Eleanor's and look directly into this little cemetery.
Let me tell you how we miraculously met Eleanor.
We couldn't find this little church....only address we had was "on the West side of the Green" in Green Hammerton. We drove down it and kept going onto a dirt road. A woman was walking her dog. We stopped and asked if she knew where the Catholic church was and she started telling us. Then she said, "My house is actually attached to the church, and my neighbor has the key."
That simply...
We asked the very best person in town.
She met us back there.
Notice the attached house. Notice the bricks are the same size as the ones on the church, except the very front redder ones. My personal feeling is that our new friend Eleanor lives in the house that Uncle/Reverend James Jackson lived in with his wife Mary and many children.
Just a word about Samuel and Sarah Jackson's children:
1. Ann....Died 3 days after giving birth to her only child and a year after her marriage.
2. Samuel....Immigrated to New Zealand, became a successful and well known lawyer in Aukland
3. William....Immigrated to New Zealand, became known as Major Jackson, head of the Jackson Rangers during the Maori war.
4. Thomas Jackson...Immigrated to New Zealand, had command of a ship at young age of 21.
5. John Hughlings Jackson, known throughout the world as "The Father of English Neurology". Anyone who has studied neurology should know his name. He has been mentioned in another post with a 'blue plaque' showing where he lived in London.
St Martins Church in Allerton Mauleverer.
Jackson burials are these 5 above-ground monuments and one other.
Although a cold day, we had sunshine during part of it.
Looking forward to more adventures in the new year!
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