by Nancie » Sun Jun 05, 2005 10:35 am
Hi Greta
Sorry for taking so long to reply. I just found your message last night. My mother was Margaret Jackson, now deceased. There are no Jacksons in the area related to you but there are some descendants. As far as I am aware there are no Jordans who would be related to you.
The story of the Jackson family in Kintyre goes back to 1856 when George Jackson and his wife Ann came to the Mull of Kintyre from Eskadalemuir in Dumfriesshire. They lived at Strone, Glemanuilt and Balinamoile and their 13 children were born between 1853 and 1873. One of their sons, John, who was born on 1st February 1860, married Kate Jordan, as she was known, in Campbeltown. They went to the United States in about 1900 and lived in Bismarck ND and later moved to WN (Wisconsin?). According to my family tree, they had three children, George, Clifford and Greta.
My great grandfather, William stayed in Kintyre and had seven children. Some of them also emigrated to the States and Australia.
John's sister Anne also went to ND about 1900 with her widowed mother, Ann, and her two brothers James and John, Jim and Hugh. They also moved to WN. Several other children of George and Mary emigrated to ND - John and Janet in 1887 and Thomas in 1889.
The family lived at Balinamoile the nearest house to the Mull of Kintyre lighthouse and George and Ann's daughter Rose (born 1859) married the lighthouse keeper named Quine who had two daughters by a previous marriage. These two daughters married Rose's younger brothers James and Hugh. Complicated?
I am in touch with several Jackson descendants in the United States, Canada and Australia and would be happy to let you see all the information I have.
I look forward to seeing you in the summer as I have a lot of information about the Jacksons. Please keep in touch.
Nancie Smith