{"id":4804,"date":"2020-07-24T16:44:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T06:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/?page_id=4804"},"modified":"2023-04-18T13:14:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T03:14:06","slug":"hercules-jameson-and-sarah-jays","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/?page_id=4804","title":{"rendered":"Hercules Jameson and Sarah Jay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hercules “Henry” William Jameson<\/strong> was born between 1788-1792 in Lerwick in the Shetland Islands, Scotland. In some records (British Merchant Seaman register) his birthdate is given as 1 December 1792.<\/p>\n

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Lerwick, Scotland<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

His mother’s name was Jane according to Hercules British Royal Navy Allotment Declaration papers.<\/p>\n

There is a Jane Jameson who died in Lerwick in 1843 aged 90 that could possibly be his mother.<\/em><\/p>\n

By 5 July 1806 Hercules was serving aboard the British Royal Navy frigate ‘Spartan’.<\/p>\n

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Naval Service Entry Book of Certificates<\/p><\/div>\n

HMS Spartan was a Royal Navy 38-gun fifth-rate frigate, launched at Rochester in 1806. During the Napoleonic Wars she was active in the Adriatic and in the Ionian Islands.<\/p>\n

Hercules served aboard this ship until 20 September 1810.<\/p>\n

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British Merchant Seaman’s Register<\/p><\/div>\n

In 1810, Spartan was operating off Naples and there fought and inconclusive engagement against a much larger Neapolitan squadron on 3 May, for which Captain Brenton was highly rewarded.<\/p>\n

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‘Spartan’ engaging the French in 1810<\/p><\/div>\n

Hercules lost a leg in action (10 killed, 20 wounded) with the French in this battle per account of battle in this Naval Intelligence newspaper 1810. (The Scots Magazine Vol 72, 1810).<\/p>\n

He appears in a list of Killed and Wounded aboard the “Spartan” in the Bay of Naples 3 May 1810 (London Gazette Issue 16392 page 1134 online).<\/p>\n

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On 11 August 1815 Hercules married 19 year old Sarah Jay<\/strong>\u00a0at St Michael, Crooked Lane, London after the banns were read on the previous three Sundays.<\/p>\n

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Chelmsford Chronicle Newspaper 1 Oct 1784<\/p><\/div>\n

Sarah was born in 1796 in Great Wakering, Essex to parents Thomas Jay (1776-1834), butcher and Sarah Ward (1779-1839).<\/a> She was one of eight <\/span>children born to the couple. She was baptised on 4 July 1796 at St Nicholas, Great Wakering.<\/p>\n

Sarah’s grandfather also Thomas Jay (1751-1808), a butcher, and wife Susanna, lived in Southminster, Essex and in 1784 placed an ad in the Chelmsford Chronicle newspaper selling his furniture, house and butchers shop before they moved to the village of Great Wakering.<\/p>\n

Sarah’s brother or cousin (no baptism found) Henry Jay, butcher of Great Wakering (son of Henry Jay, butcher) was convicted of sheep stealing in 1820 in Southend at the Essex Assizes with two other men.\u00a0 The other two men (Thomas Fairhead and Henry Gilliott) were hanged, but Henry was sentenced to death, but had his sentence commuted to transportation.<\/p>\n

Sheep Rustlers Hanged – In 1820 in Southend. Thomas Fairhead (23) a Southend butcher, Henry Gilliott (23) a shepherd from Temple Farm and Henry Jay (21) a butcher from Great Wakering, were convicted of stealing a sheep from Temple Farm, Prittlewell.\u00a0 (England & Wales Criminal Registers 1791-1892).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Mary Isabella Stow (nee Jameson)<\/p><\/div>\n

Hercules and Sarah had four living children –<\/p>\n

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  1. Mary Isabella<\/strong><\/a> born 1817 St Marylebone, London died 1899 Spotswood, Vic, Australia. Married Alexander Stow 1837 Greenwich, Kent. Immigrated to Melbourne, Australia in 1857 “SS Kent”. 9 children.
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  2. Hercules<\/strong> b 1827 North Marden, Sussex, died ‘lost at sea’. Hercules was baptised at North Marden on 18 Feb 1827. He was admitted to Greenwich Hospital School in Kent, on 26 Oct 1838, after his father lost a leg in the Bay of Naples.In 1841 he is attending the Royal Hospital School for Seamen, in Greenwich, aged 14.At the age of 15 he is indentured into the Merchant Navy for 6 years on the merchant vessel\u00a0 “Judith Allan”. Seaman’s Ticket 26.359. In 1848 naval records record him as “DD” (discharged dead), lost at sea.
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