Jodi

I finally got a picture up, involved signing into things with the Antarctic time zone! This is John T Jackson, Clara nee Sparrow and one of the children. I am going to put up Marion, Gladys and Fred, back to the ether. These are from original photos that my mother had in a box. Names were written on the back by her grandmother in the 1920s.

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Thank you, Phyllis looks like my recently departed mother! Amazing. (Struggling with this postimage stuff, persevering. Can't believe I can't do it. May have to get off iPad and use computer.)

It is a small world. We are related through that link. My mother was Joan Jackson, Phyllis Jackson was her cousin, your fathers cousin. John had a sister Elizabeth who married another Jackson who lived in Heathcote Drive /Street Aspley Gardens in the 1930s. In the letter I have she was hoping her daughter Nancy would get a job at the Players factory. My grandfather joined the army when he arrived in Australia in 1915/6 and was shipped to Egypt, Gallipoli and France, I think he came back through England. He married in Australia, worked in a coal mine again, had 3 children, enlisted in

Thank you Jill! I had seen your name and have this Jackson Sparrow marriage in my tree. John was my grandfathers brother, Phyllis would have been my mother's cousin. So nice to know that the family kept going! My great grandmother died in 1932 and there was not much contact after that. When my mother died last year I came across all the photos etc sent to her father. She went to Nottingham with her sister in the 1980s, but there had been lots of changes, addresses hard to find. I have a photo of John and Clara with a child but I think it was too big to attach! So nice to hear from yo

Just going through family tree and came across the site and pictures. My grandfather emigrated alone to Australia around 1915, a coal miner born in Mansfield. I have family letters and postcards from his mother in Clapham road Radford, a sister in Aspley Gardens and photos before 1932. I have a lot of family tree, but nothing of younger generations, or stories of his folk back home. Any stories, memories, links would be greatly appreciated.