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 164 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. JACKSON, JOHN HENRY, Esq. of Sandford House, Sandford, co. Normaiiby, Victoria, Australia, J. P., b. at Launceston, Tasmania, 29tli January, 1829 ; m. at Wannon Parsonage, near Coleraine, co. Normanby, Mary Anne, youngest daughter of Benjamin Bowtell, Esq. of London and Kent, England, descended from a family of Frencli refugees, and by her (who d. at Southport, Queensland, 15th August, 1884) has issue, I. Henry Bowtell, h. 27th June, 1856; m. 24th November, 1886, his cousin-german, Elizabeth, only daughter of Robert Towart, Esq. of Casterton. II. Ernest Sandford, M.D., resident surgeon, Brisbane Hospital, Queens- land, h. 18th July, 1860. I. Ada Constance, m. May, 1877, Ernest James Stevens, Esq. of Dur- rimba, Southport, Queensland, J. P., and member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, and has issue. II. Alice Maude, to. 13th June, 188-, William Tomline Wilkinson, Esq.. solicitor, and has issue. III. Margarette, m. at St. Mary's Church, Sandford, 13th Febriiary, 1889, Rowand Harry Macarthur, Esq., second son of Rowand Macarthur, Esq. of Bairnsdale. Mr. Jackson is guardian of minors, shire councillor, and formerly its president, president of the district Pastoral Society, and member of Church Assembly, Ballarat diocese. HtncagE. This family were long resident in York- shire. Mr. J. H. Jackson's gi-andfather left his native county and settled in London. He m. Jane Paynter, and had issue, four sons and two daughters, viz., I. John Henry, of whom hereafter. II. Samuel, of Yarra House, Enfield, co. Middlesex, England, and formerly of St. KUda, Melbourne, Victoria, Aus- tralia, b. 1807, settled at Melbourne, and was an eminent and one of the earliest architects of that city, having built many of the principal buildings. He m. Mary Anne Lowther, and d. at Tarra House, Enfield, 7th May, 1876, aged 69 years, leaving issue, an only daughter, Mary Anne, who m. Thomas Cornelius Lawson, Esq. of London, surgeon, and has issue. III. William, one of the original " Fawk- ner Party," who landed in the schooner "Enterprise," in Port Phillip Bay, and, with three or four others, the first to stand on the pre- sent site of the city of Melbourne in 1835. This gentleman, together with his elder brother Samuel, took up land at Jackson's Creek (so named after him). The greater part of tliis estate is now named Sunbury, and is the seat and residence of Sir W. J. Clarke, Bart. Subsequently the two brothers bought from John Henty, in 1846, Sandfohd, which is still in the possession of the famUy. Mr. W. Jackson in. Mrs. Bassingham, and d. s.p. 1862, in England. IV. Joseph, freeman of the Haber- dashers' Guild of the City of London, b. 1811; settled in Victoria, 1850; and d. at Sandford, in 1887. I. Eliza, m. her cousin-german, Thomas Weston, Esq. of London, surgeon, and had issue. II. Jane, d. unm. The eldest son, John Henry Jackson, Esq. of Laun- ceston, Tasmania, b. in London, 30th April, 1800, and baptised there at Sion's Chapel, 22nd May, following ; landed in Van Die- men's Land (now Tasmania), 29th September, 1823 ; m. at St. John's Church, Launceston, 9th June, 1828, Sarah Lowe, who was b. 3rd October, 1808, and d. at Ring's Meadows, Launceston, 1848. Mr. Jackson, who owned land near Westbury, Tasmania, d. 22nd September, 1837, and was buried in the Old