Joseph Hardy JACKSON

• Name	Joseph Hardy JACKSON
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I14497	Young Kent Ancestors
  Last Modified	29 Sep 2016

  
  

  Family	Augusta Maria OWLETT,   c. 26 Jul 1778, Leeds, Kent, England
  Married	6 Oct 1808	St Nicholas, Rochester, Kent, England
  Children	1. Mary Hardy JACKSON,   b. 29 Nov 1809, Norwich, Norfolk, England   2. Augusta Hardy JACKSON,   c. 8 Jan 1812, Farningham, Kent, England   3. Augusta Owlett Hardy JACKSON,   c. 1 Apr 1813, Leeds, Kent, England
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2022
  Family ID	F4339	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  he served under Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS in the Peninsular. In the Military Campaign Medal and Award Rolls, 1793-1949 he was listed as Joseph Jackson and his rank given as Adjutant of the 5th Dragoon Guards. The image itself didn’t give anymore information, the index stated that the campaign was the Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815. I found nothing else at that time on ancestry so I googled his name and regiment next and found Lionel S. Challis’s Peninsula Roll Call where I found Joseph’s record and after reading through the abreviations list translated the record. I was also able to find Joseph Jackson on several war office Army Officer lists amongst the Google books and I found three entries in the London Gazette. The earliest notice in the London Gazette was; War-Office, December 10, 1808 5th Regiment of Dragoon Guards Quarter-Master Joseph Jackson from the 4th Dragoons, to be Adjutant, with the Rank of Cornet, vice Houghton, who resigns the Adjutantcy only. Then found a further promotion The London Gazette War-Office 5th Regiment of Dragoon Guards Captain Richard Drake Cane to be Major, without purchase, vice Walker, deceased. Dated 20th March 1823 Lieutenant and Adjutant Joseph Jackson to be Captain, vice Cane. Dated 20th March 1823 Finally the last Gazette entry The London Gazette War-Office 84th Regiment of Foot Captain Joseph H Jackson from the 5th Dragoon Guards, to be Captain, vice Colomb, who exchanges. Dated 17th March 1825. In a war office Army listing of Officers on Full, Retired or Half Pay, dated the 12th February 1827 I found out that the 84th Regiment of Foot’s full name was the 84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment of Foot. There was a further mention of his military service in the notice of his marriage in The Athenaeum: a Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous Information Conducted by J Aikin, M. D. July to December 1808 Vol. IV. 1808 Domestic Occurrences page 461 Married At Rochester, Joseph Hardy Jackson, Esq. of the 4th Dragoon Guards, to Augusta, second daughter of John Owlet, Esq. of Leeds. Further reseach indicated that he was born c1776 so in 1808 he would have been about 31 years old and in 1827 about 51 years old. Lionel S. Challis’s Peninsular Roll Call indicates that he was awarded the Army General Service Medal with Salamanca and Vittoria campaign bars for his service in the peninsula between September 1811 to January 1814. The Battle of Salamanca was 22 July 1812 and the Battle of Vittoria was 21st June 1813 It appears that it wasn’t until Queen Victoria was on the throne that medals were awarded in general, except those perhaps that were organised through the East India Company so Joseph’s medal wouldn’t have been awarded until at least 1848 when the first medal was struck, which means he was still alive at that date as the medals were only awarded veterans who were still living. The Fitzwilliam Museum article on the General Service Medal comments on how the monarch for whom the veterans fought wasn’t the monarch whose portrait was on the medal, the latter of course being Queen Victoria. I came across a Will of a Solomon Royes dated 25th June 1842. Joseph Hardy Jackson was a witness to the Will and it gave the following information about him “Joseph Hardy Jackson now of Carlton House, Bagot, Island of Jersy and late Captain 84th Reg.” Armed with those details I searched ancestry again and found the 1841 Jersey census entry for him, his wife and daughter Augusta. The entry stated that he was 65 years old but as his wife Augusta Maria was listed as being 60 and his daughter as being 25 and those ages would have put both of their years of birth after the dates of their baptisms it is clear that the ages were rounded up as the ages on the England and Wales 1841 census were. I haven’t been able to find any other conclusive information from that date on. None of them appear on the 1851 Jersey census. One interesting snippet from the 1841 census was that there was a Sophia Wood aged 25 a foot servant registered in the household.