Richard is recorded as a labourer. James, his son, added the name Jackson at a later date. In fact, James changed his name a few times. PECK
FSM descendant = Mrs M J JOHNSON has ship as Barque Elizabeth 1828 may have made earlier trip.
THERE IS A RE-UNION BOOK written by Carol DAWBER
see website http://gablerose.com/JHJ.html
James Hayter Jackson owned the 'Swiftsure', a 35 foot whaling boat. The 'Swiftsure' captured about 60 right whales
and 300 humpbacks. She was gifted to the Canterbury museum, and is located by the whale skeleton. A replica of
the 'Swiftsure' has been built and was launched in February, 2011. Full details of the replica and pictures are in the
PICTON SEAPORT NEWS
I checked on the birthdate 24 Nov 1800 for James H Jackson and read again that a James Jackson with this birthdate shows up in the 1851 census as a clockmaker still living in Putney hence from this comes the doubt that we have the guy we really would like! LL
PPA Marlborough Press, Volume XXII, Issue 1282, 8 July 1881, Page 2
Old Settlers ?During the last cruise of the Lily, Captain Lambert, in t he course of conversation with Mrs Jackson, one of the settlers in Queen Charlotte Sound, elicited the following interesting facts : Mrs Jackson remembers the Soundstas far back as 1843, which was the year she first came to live tln-re. At that time about 400 Maories were camped at Okekuri, and all the hays from there to the Grove were .more or less populated by them,; Noy,, lo<,use Mrs Jsicksmi?sfbwn words, " You cannot see even the post of a pah sticking up in any of the bays.? Her husband, Mr Jackson, whs a .resident of Tory Channel twenty years before their marriage in 1843. He died in 1878,-and is hune 1 near (he house, and the grave is neatly kept, and tended with assiduous care by bis wife. During his life this old settler could tell some wonderful narratives ofbycgone days, and of hairbreadth escapes hv sea or short? On oh# occasion, when sealing at Jackson?s Bay. lie went sixty miles with' Ids crew in 'ah open boat, to a point below Hokitika, where they were nearly massacred by the natives. On another occasion lie landed at tiie Boiler, itf a time when there were no white men about* that district. The .Maoris ordered them off, ±ml as had weather- was coming on, and they knew if .-they .did nqt go they v would ail have bejen killed, they went to tliv Steeple Rocks at the month of tiie Builer, off Cape Foulwinil, a piacedlmt used to be .covered with seals ; in v the early days, and hauling their boat upon the rocks, turned Her over, and camped underneath for several days. When the weather moderated they went up the coast, pulled the boat ashore at ( ape Fairwind, .hauled.her over the Spit, ami entered Otiideh-Buy. From there they voyaged through ihe French Pass, not daring to land any where from fear of'the"Mnoris, and coasted along up to Tory Channel. Though, as will he seen from this simple narrative of peril, great risks were! incurred by sealers, yet file prices for sealskins and furs were .very high, and that, coupled with his natural hardihood, no doubt induced Mr! Jackson to venture, as much as he did. His favorite hook was a very old edition of the ? Life of Peter the Grest.? and he wi'ied this book to Captain Lambert before his dt; t i.
PPA Marlborough Press, Volume XVIII, Issue 1076, 10 August 1877, Page 2
DEATH.
On the 2nd August, at Jackson?s Bay, Tory Channel, Mr James Jackson, aged 77 years. (Nelson and Wellington papers please copy.) James (Jimmie) (Hayter) Jackson was a first mate on Waterloo in 1829.
13 He immigrated to from Sydney to Tory Channel, NZ on the Waterloo., on 31 May 1829.
1 He resided in Queen Charlotte Sound, NZ, in 1830.
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