Help with beginners brick wall: Finding Thomas Jackson

[Kay99]

Followed this thread with interest as my Jacksons were also in the Manchester area then

Looking at an online tree I noticed that daughters Edna and Irene were living in 1939 in Failsworth at the same address that is listed on their fathers death cert in 1947.   As the adjoining person is blacked out I wondered whether this was their father Thomas and he was redacted in errror

Kay

[chempat]

Yep, I suggested that on reply 24, but did not realise/know it was the same address.

Wasted my time looking for Holland Street.

Apply to F M P to have it revealed?

[Kay99]

Sorry Chempat - Missed your reply when rereading 

Kay

[heywood]

It helps Kay. I had not thought that it could be Thomas.

[heywood]

John Simpson Jackson died in Weston-super-Mare in 1980, birth date as 9th May 1908.

Looks to have been in Norwich in 1939, very similar line of business to his father.

If that is dad in 1939 with the family then he can’t be the steel erector. I looked for John Simpson but can’t work out how to see his address/occupation. However, looking at the address at the top of the page, the two Jacksons are only a few miles away from each other 

[Kay99]

I think John Simpson Jackson is listed twice in 1939.  Try searching for his wife Isabella Jackson with the same birth year and Borough and you should find the other record with John and more info

Kay

[heywood]

Thanks Kay.

[chrisruthsmith]

Hello,

Just a quick note to thank everyone for all your hard work. It am very new to this and so it will take me quite a while to work through all the posts but I do have some more information which might answer some of the questions you have posed

[chrisruthsmith]

Re 1939 Register

We can rule out that Thomas was at 13 Wrigley Crescent, Failsworth with his daughter Edna and Irene.  The eldest surviving daughter Edith (who's was listed as Head) was redacted on Ancestry but not in Find my Past.

Heywood found at T Jackson living in Norwich with a DOB of 14/02/1877 which ties in with his son's John Simpson Jackson occupation and location.  From the GRO register I looked for births in or close to Manchester in Q1 of 1977 and found

• T Jackson PRESTWICH 08D 471 Ellison
• T Jackson MANCHESTER 08D 346 Hughes
• T Jackson SALFORD 08D 139 Wilson

 Is it worth me perusing this further to see if they tie in with the steel erector?