{"id":5359,"date":"2020-08-23T16:17:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T06:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/?page_id=5359"},"modified":"2020-08-27T11:14:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T01:14:07","slug":"samuel-jackson-and-margaret-wolfenden","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/?page_id=5359","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Jackson and Margaret Wolfenden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samuel Jackson (senior)<\/strong>\u00a0was born in 1716 in Knotts, near Sawley, Yorkshire England to parents Robert Jackson (1686-1729) and Elizabeth Brearley (d 1728).<\/a><\/p>\n

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St Peters, Bolton by Bowland<\/p><\/div>\n

He was baptised at Bolton by Bowland, Yorkshire on 14 June 1716, four miles away. Samuel was one of five children born to the couple.<\/p>\n

His father Robert was a small tenant farmer at Knotts. Samuel most likely worked on his father’s land until at the age of 19 years, when he married local girl, Margaret Wolfenden on 6 February 1736 at Broughton in Yorkshire. Broughton is 11 miles from Sawley.<\/p>\n

On his marriage register entry, Samuel is described as a husbandman (farmer) and they are both from within the Monastry of Sawley. The record also states they were “married by asking”.\u00a0 Asking was one of several terms used to describe the process of marriage banns, and was a common term from the Book of Common Prayer, which was common to all Anglican Churches.<\/p>\n

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“Asking” comes from the meaning that the couple had to ask for the announcement of the marriage banns to be read out in both the dwelling parishes of the couple.\u00a0The couple were then married with due announcement to their community, and with permission, as opposed to eloping to Gretna Green, or obtaining a special license.<\/p>\n

In the north of England the custom was to ring the bells of the church three times after the third reading of the banns.<\/p>\n

Samuel’s intended Margaret Wolfenden<\/strong>, was a neighbour, the daughter of Richard Wolfenden (1689-1747) and Mary Isherwood (1689-1773).<\/a><\/p>\n

She was born in Bolton by Bowland in 1715 and baptised there in the parish church on 11 March 1715. She was one of three children born to the couple – James (1713-1764), Margaret (1715-1776) and Elizabeth (b 1719).<\/p>\n