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| Helen Rodger Jackson my great-grandmother |
My mother’s paternal grandparents, and my
great-grandparents. William Jackson’s
parents were Archibald Jackson (‘Spirit Merchant’) and Jeannie Jackson (née
McNab). Helen Rodger Lennie’s parents were Daniel Craig Lennie (‘Boilermaker
foreman’) and Mary Lennie (née McNeil)
William (‘hairdresser’) and Helen (‘fancy goods
saleswoman’) were married on 21st June 1892 at Helen’s address, 83 Dunbeth
Road, Coatbridge. At that point, William
was living at 93, Hallcraig Street, Airdrie.
The wedding took place ‘according to the forms of the Free Church of
Scotland’ and was conducted by the Revd Adam Maxwell of the East Free Church in
Coatbridge (who, 30 years later, was to marry my grandparents.) Witnesses were Jeannie Jackson and John
McNeill Lennie.
By the time of the 1901 Census William and Helen were
living in first-floor accommodation at 269 Dundyvan Road, Coatbridge, where (according
to their answer to the question appended to the Census) they had two rooms with
one or more windows. They had a daughter. Mary (7), my grandfather Archibald
who was 4, William (2) and Jeanie (10 months.) A decade later, the 1911 Census
records that the family were living at 9 North Bute Street, Coatbridge, Mary
was 17, Archibald 15, William 12, and Jeanie, and they had been joined by Helen
(5) and John (3). The 1911 Census asked a question about the number of live
births there had been in the family – 7 children had been born to the Jacksons,
which means the one of their children had died.
I have been unable to trace William Jackson’s death
certificate – family lore has it that he died around the age of 50, by which
time, according to his widow’s death certificate, he was a ‘master
hairdresser.’
Helen Rodger Jackson lived on until 1953, and I
imagine I would have met her in my first months of life. She died at the age of
83 at 11.10am on 22nd March
1953 at 43 Calder Avenue, Coatbridge, of ‘Cardio-vascular degeneration and
circulatory failure.’
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