Notes from Mike Jackson, who lives in Jersey (Gt. Gt. Gd. son of James Porteus Jackson (mayor of Newbury in 1857))

He explains that he has some family graves in the Newtown road cemetery.

There is a Jackson vault on the west side numbered W141. When he last visited 10 years ago it was starting to 'spall' but he made a note of the inscriptions.  His  great, great grandfather James Porteous Jackson (mayor of Newbury in 1857) and several of his children are the principal occupants.

Ch 8(a) holds his great grandfather Charles Jackson died 1883 aged 36 and his wife Mary,

P(1) holds Alice Jackson wife of his grandfather’s brother Herbert

and Ch 4 (e) holds Maria Darling, his great grandmother's mother.

There are other Jacksons reposing in the St.Nicholas churchyard and they're the previous generations.

Mike has a suspicion that the ironmongery business was sold after my great grandfather Charles Jackson died at an early age of 36 in 1883. He appeared to be running the business and in his will he decreed that his affairs be administered by trustees. He presumes it wasn't considered appropriate for his widow to be running an ironmongery! (

It became an ironmongers run by Edwards and Godding -  see photo  (it is now Cancer Research)

Mike  recalls his late grandmother recounting that Charles died of consumption after being put in a damp bed in Germany presumably on business. 

NB  There were 2 Jacksons in Newbury the other being Alfred Jackson. For a while they lived next door to each other in houses in St John's Road.

Both were Mayors.  

Alfred's shop was about 2/3 doors away from the town hall on the market side in what was  about 30 years ago was Daniels shop. It then became La Stada Restaurant. Strangely, these 2 shops are almost next to each other with just one shop separating them  Mike has never found a connection with his Jackson side and Alfred Jackson to date but it almost seems as though there should be!

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