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Lymm St./Boundary St. area.

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Jackson Family
Jackson Family
Photo: Kath Gerring
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Item #: 22393
Brothers & Sisters

Comment by: jud on 13th January 2013 at 12:41

lovely photo but nobody told them to say cheese in those days

Comment by: Maxine Williams(Greenwood) on 13th January 2013 at 14:24

Lovely photo, what year would this have been taken?

Comment by: Mick on 13th January 2013 at 19:10

Looks very much like the 1920s.

Comment by: Rev David Long on 14th January 2013 at 10:35

St Mary's Marriage Registers have two Jackson weddings from No. 26 Boundary Street: Martha (23) to Henry Greenwood (24) on 28th December 1935. Her father is given as James J., Collier, and Johanna (23) to widower Alfred Bretherton (39) - both were Explosives Mixers, so presumably met in a wartime munitions factory near Wigan. Her father is given as John J., Collier.
If the fathers' names are recorded correctly, the brides were presumably cousins.
Most of the rest of the pics in the Lymm St./Boundary St. area sequence were sent by Allan Greenwood - he has a pic entitled 'Siblings, 1926' showing a girl of similar appearance to the one seated on the left here. He also has a pic of his grandfather, James Jackson in WW1 - presumably the father of Martha, married in 1935.

Comment by: Katd on 14th January 2013 at 12:10

Martha & Johanna were sisters.

Comment by: Rev David Long on 14th January 2013 at 16:46

Then the Register entry giving Martha's father as John is incorrect. Do you have a copy of the original Certificate to check whether it was an error made at the time, or in transcriptions since?
I notice you've you've just put up a pic of your dad Alf Bretherton - from that and what I've written about the Greenwood/ Jackson marriage, you and Allan Greenwood are cousins.
Can you name the children in the pic - i.e. is it Johanna and Martha plus brother and sister?

Comment by: Katd on 15th January 2013 at 10:15

Martha,Catherine,Johanna & Arthur.

Comment by: Allan Greenwood on 16th January 2013 at 15:31

It's (L To R) Martha, Katherine and Johanna with Arthur in the foreground. Their fathers name was James, so your entry in the register is wrong David.

Comment by: Bretherton on 21st August 2014 at 19:31

Interesting only just come across this picture, Johanna Jackson was my grandfather's step mum.

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