I am slowly sorting thru the Bristol Jacksons. The Jackson/Hobson line seems to be reported in conflict to the documentation. side note - Something interesting came to my attention this past week. I was looking at some ancient wills from the Great Orphan Book and found that several testators had named two sons by the same name (both living and bequeathed). I presume that they were sons by different wives. https://archive.org/stream/notesorabstracts00wadlrich#page/n4/mode/1up Thomas Jackson is named in the 1616 will of his father Miles Jackson and is under age 22. (by 1st wife Marie Satchfield, illegit dau of mayor William Bird). It was arranged for him to be apprenticed under JohnTomlinson, a Bristol merchant. Thomas likely was born in Combehay, Somerset (across border from Bristol) Thomas Jackson and Anne, dau of mayor Henry Hobson (chr 1601) were mar. 10 Jun 1622 All Saints, Bristol, Gloucester Thomas Jackson, Bristol - Sheriff, 1632-1633; Warden Merchant Venturers, 1627-1628; died 4 Mar 1634-5. Thomas Jackson, merchant of Bristol, had written a death-bed will on the last day of Feb 1635 ordering his brother Miles Jackson and brother in law William Hobson to see that his estate is divided equally into 6 parts - one part to his wife and the rest to his (5) children (unnamed). Told in the presence of Henry Hobson, Joseph Jackson, Alice Cary, Anne Stanfast and shortly after died. The probate written in Latin mentions Anne Jackson 'relic' Thomas Jackson mortat A January 16 margin note (to the will) mentions Anne Jackson alias Thurston 'relicte' I am presuming that Ann remarried to ( ) Thurston about a year after Thomas died. DEED 19 May 1626 Lease for 60 years 1) Sir Charles Gerard of Hallsall, Lancs, Knt., Matthew Warren, clothier, Francis Creswick and Thomas JACKSON, merchants, and Henry Hobson, innholder, all of Bristol (buyers) 2) Thomas Walter of Stapleton, yeo. (seller) Stapleton Rectory and all tithes belonging to it, annual pension of 2 lbs wax payable by the Proctors of Stapleton Church, tenement near to the Church, tithes and profits of hill called Northeway, advowson of Stapleton Vicarage, 10 acres of land called Monkes Furlonge in Stapleton. Annual rent: 2s. Covenant, Henry Hobson to Thomas Walter, to discharge two annual rents of 13s. 9½d. and 35s. 4¾d., chargeable on the lands of the dissolved priories of St. Mary Magdalen and St. James, Bristol, the premises above possibly being part of the priories' property. National Archives (Bristol Record Office) Mayors and Sheriffs of Bristol 1600 -1699 from 'Annals of Bristol Vol. 1' by John Latimer 1632 mayor, Henry Hobson, Innkeeper ; sheriffs, Thomas JACKSON and Wm. Fitzherbert Jan

On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 21:17:08 -0000, <scjbwaugh@cox.net> wrote: > Something interesting came to my attention this past week. I was > looking at some ancient wills from the Great Orphan Book > https://archive.org/stream/notesorabstracts00wadlrich#page/n4/mode/1up Hi Jan, Thank you for this reference. I have an original copy of Notes or Abstracts of the Wills contained in the volume entitled The Great Orphan Book and Book of Wills in the Council House at Bristol (1886) by the Rev. T.P. Wadley, M.A., Rector of Naunton Beauchamp, but it will be useful to turn to this book on line if I want to check anything in the wills of my 16th-century Bristol ancestors or references to them in other wills. Josephine