When Elizabeth Jackson was born before 30 March 1690, in North Meols, Lancashire, England, her father, James Jackson, was 30 and her mother, Isabel Wright, was 28. She married Miles Blundell on 29 November 1708, in St Cuthbert's Church, Churchtown, Lancashire, England. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She died before 28 July 1734, in Hesketh Bank, Lancashire, England, and was buried in St Cuthbert's Church, Churchtown, Lancashire, England.
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Athelstan, king of Wessex and Mercia, formed the Kingdom of England.
Viking raiders from Scandinavia invaded England in 980. Years later in 991, the English government paid them 10,000 in hopes for peace. The Viking raiders, however, continued to force more money from England.
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: patronymic from Jack . In North America, this surname has absorbed other patronymics beginning with J- in various European languages, in particular those derived from equivalents or short forms and other derivatives of the personal name Jacob , e.g. Norwegian Jacobsen or Jakobsen and, in some cases, Slovenian Jakše (from a derivative of the personal name Jakob ). This surname is also very common among African Americans (see also 2 below).
African American: from the personal name Jackson (or Andrew Jackson), adopted in honor of Andrew Jackson, the 7th president of the US; or adoption of the surname in 1 above, in many cases probably for the same reason.
History: This extremely common British name was brought over by numerous different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. One forebear was the father and namesake of the seventh US president, Andrew Jackson, who migrated to SC from Carrickfergus in the north of Ireland in 1765. The Confederate General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson came from VA, where his great-grandfather John, likewise of Scotch–Irish stock, had settled after emigrating to America in 1748.
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