Brief Life History of Richard
When Richard Jackson was born on 4 July 1874, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States, his father, John Jackson, was 37 and his mother, Elizabeth Silkstone, was 30. He lived in Tooele, Utah, United States in 1880. He died on 22 August 1892, at the age of 18.
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- Richard Jackson in household of John Jackson, "United States Census, 1880"
Parents and Siblings
1836–1914 Male
1844–1906 Female
Siblings (9)
1863–1932 Female
1864–1867 Male
1867–1886 Male
1869–1929 Male
1872–1873 Male
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
Age 1
1875 · A New Civil Rights Act
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Age 7
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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