Our neighbor at the Chicago Lake condo, Jeff Blumenshine, inducted Stan into the prestigious Sears Craftsman Club today, presenting him with a special ball cap. Stan's brother-in-law Dan got one too. Stan used the new cover to study "A Concise History of Scotland" by Fitzroy MacLean this afternoon. So far there has been no mention of any of our relatives, although we know we have kin in the Jackson clan out of Riccorton, just a few kilometers from where Stan hopes to alight Monday morning. If there is any word on the street about Great Great Great Grandad Peter Jackson, ye'll 'ear it 'ere first, lads and lassies.Here's some raw geneological material gathered with the assistance of Nancy Cleary:
Generation No. 1
1. ADAM JACKSON was born 1717 in SCOTLAND, and died WFT Est. 1787-1812.
Generation No. 2
2. JOHN JACKSON (ADAM1) was born 1787 in RORBOROSHIRE, SCOTLAND, and died 1870 in ANDES, NY. He married BETSY OLIVER WFT Est. 1805-1835. She was born 1789 in RICCARTON, SCOTLAND, and died 1861 in ANDES NY.
Generation No. 3
3. PETER JACKSON (JOHN, ADAM) was born March 05, 1813 in RICCARTON, SCOTLAND, and died April 28, 1891 in BELLE PLAINE, MINN. He married NANCY IVES May 10, 1857 in BLUE EARTH TWP. MINN, daughter of JUSTICE IVES and DEBORAH CONGDON. She was born February 15, 1830 in RUSSELL NY, and died August 05, 1881 in BELLE PLAINE, MINN.
Peter Jackson was born on Gadshaw Farm, Riccarton, Foxhorshire, Scotland, 1813. He was a salesman in Stratford, England for an Edinburgh firm. He saw Queen Victoria on her coronation day. He followed his parents to New York State about 1840. Later, in Wisconsin, he met his future bride. In 1855 he got land in Blakely Township in Scott County, Minnesota. (Near where Stan and Kathleen live today, coincidentally) He and his brother, James, spent their first night in a hollow log on the hillside beside what is now Highway 169 near the edge of the Big Woods. He bought more level land in the Northeast quarter of Section 10. He built a cabin and cleared the land for fields. Travel was by foot or by oxcart. The first Steamboat on the nearby Minnesota River was the Minnesota Belle. Trips were irregular. On May 1, 1857, he married the newly arrived Nancy Ives at the home of her sister Sarah and husband Alvin P. Davis in Lake George, near what is now Mankato, (where Steve and Nancy live).This was the first marriage in Jamestown Township, Blue Earth County. He brought the minister from St. Peter by horse and buggy, returned him there and took his bride on the steamboat back to Belle Plaine.
Nancy Ives Jackson was highly regarded as a nurse and was often called upon.
Peter and Nancy's daughter, Ella Mae Jackson Wendelken who died in 1919, is Beverly Brown Rolfsrud's grandmother.
More later.
