{"id":1335,"date":"2023-03-02T14:31:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T14:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2023-03-02T14:32:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T14:32:35","slug":"march-meeting-and-agm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/?p=1335","title":{"rendered":"March Meeting and AGM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our next monthly meeting will be take place on\u00a0<strong>Wednesday 8th March in Armagh County Museum<\/strong>. We will start at the earlier time of\u00a0<strong>6:30pm<\/strong>\u00a0with our Annual General Meeting, which will be followed by a talk starting at 7:30pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our speaker this month is our Canadian member <strong>Sharon Oddie Brown. <\/strong>This year, Sharon will be speaking about&nbsp;<em><strong>Forkhill Jacksons: Kith and Kin.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sharon will explore connections &#8211; with a dollop of humour and an unconventional approach to research &#8211; between various JACKSON families to the JACKSONs of Forkhill, including the alleged Armagh connections of Sir Thomas JACKSON (1839-1915) of Urker to Richard JACKSON of Forkhill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Richard JACKSON of Forkhill had no children to inherit his estate, and the Forkhill Trust began thanks to bequests in his will. At the time, it took a fleet of lawyers to sort out various legal hurdles, but The Forkhill Trust continues to this day to support local charities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sir Thomas\u2019 connection to the Forkhill JACKSON was claimed in 1912 when he donated money to the Forkhill Trust. The minutes of the Trust record:&nbsp;<em>The Trustees thank Sir Thomas Jackson of Stansted house, Essex for helping build Creggan Schools. In his turn he thanked the Trustees for their contribution. He was a&nbsp;<strong>kinsman of the Founder<\/strong>, and was a banker in Hong Kong and had property at Urker, Crossmaglen, Co. Armagh<\/em>. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But was Sir Thomas a kinsman of Richard of Forkhill? Possibly. Were other JACKSONs of Co. Armagh also related? Probably. There are several twists and turns to this tale. Come and find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our next monthly meeting will be take place on\u00a0Wednesday 8th March in Armagh County Museum. We will start at the earlier time of\u00a06:30pm\u00a0with our Annual General Meeting, which will be followed by a talk starting at 7:30pm. Our speaker this month is our Canadian member Sharon Oddie Brown. This year, Sharon will be speaking about&nbsp;Forkhill &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/?p=1335\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">March Meeting and AGM<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-current"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1337,"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}