Sarah (Starkey) Jackson (abt. 1672 - abt. 1715)

Born about 1672 in County Cavan, Ireland

Wife of Thomas Jackson — married about Jun 1695 in County Meath, Ireland [uncertain]

Descendants

Died about 1715 at about age 43 in County Meath, Ireland

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Biography

Sarah was a Friend (Quaker)

Sarah Starkey and Thomas Jackson presented their intentions of marriage to the Ulster province meeting in May 1695. ^[1] They were very probably married shortly afterwards.

At the time of her marriage, Catherine's parents were living in County Cavan, Ireland, but they probably left Cavan during the War of the Two Kings (1688-1691) and settled in Oldcastle, county Meath, just across the border from county Cavan. (See her father's profile.) By 1695 a familiar list of Quakers including Thomas Jackson appears in the sufferings for the combined counties of Meath and Cavan. ^[2] In that year, Thomas Jackson lost crops worth four shillings and six pence. Others in the same counties included Isaac Jackson (possibly his brother), Nicholas Starkey (his father-in-law), Thomas Hutton (his brother-in-law) and Merrick King (another brother-in-law). These people were all members of the Oldcastle meeting, county Meath, a subsidiary meeting of that in Belburbet, Cavan.

The very reliable Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania ^[3] tells us that her husband, Thomas Jackson, arrived in Pennsylvania in 1717, not obviously with his wife who may have died beforehand, but accompanied by four of their children, Ruth, who married Joseph Martin, Isaac, Samuel, and Benjamin.

The family relationships of these Quakers were complicated. Catherine (Lightfoot) Miller was the mother-in-law of Thomas Jackson's son Isaac by his first wife Mary Starkey, and also the step-sister of his second wife Mary Wiley. In addition, Catherine's son James Miller was married to Rachel Fredd, who was Mary Starkey's niece. Thomas Jackson was executor of the will of Katherine Fredd, his wife's sister, an abstract of which reads

[A:154} 8/23/1723. 9/12/1723. Chester County, Pennsyvlania will of Katherine Fredd,widow, late of Birmingham mentions son Ncholas, daughter in law Ann, John & Mary children of son Nicholas, cousin Deborah Starr, cousin Mary Hutton,daughter in law Deborah Fredd & daughter Rachel Miller, Sarah daughter of daughter Rachel Miller, son Benjamin Fred, brother in law Thomas Jackson. Executor: son Benjamin& brother in law Thomas Jackson. :Wit: Mary Jackson, Saml Jackson, Isaac Jackson.^[4]

Research notes

No birth record located. The date of her birth has been estimated from the date of her marriage. The place of her birth has been assumed to be her father's known residence at that time. The date of her death is even less certain, but she is assumed to have died before 1717 when her husband emigrated to Pennsylvania, probably near Oldcastle in co Meath, where the family appear to have been living at the time.

For more information on the Starkey family see space Irish Quaker Starkey families.

Sources

1. ↑ Ireland, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Congregational Records, image, FindMyPast (https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=S2%2FIRE%2FQUAKERS%2FQ-1-1-B%2F0008&parentid=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FULSTER%2FMAR%2F003339%2FB : accessed 17 April 2024), minutes dated 25d 3mo (May) 1695, Thomas Jackson and Sarah Starkey 2nd presentation of intentions of marriage; citing Ulster province meeting minutes 1694-1717, Ulster Friends Trustees Ltd, Archive ref Q.1.1.B.
2. ↑ "Ireland, Society of Friends (Quaker) Yearly Meeting Sufferings," image, FindMyPast (https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FYMG-2%2F0023&parentid=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FCONG%2F1197795 : accessed 19 April 2024), sufferings of Thomas Jackson county of Counties Meath and Cavan for the year of 1695, citing YM Sufferings 1694-1705, Religious Society Of Friends In Ireland Archives ref YM G2.
3. ↑ Myers, A C, Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750, the author, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 1902, pp 340, 341 ( https://archive.org/details/immigrationofiri00myer/page/340/mode/1up?view=theater&q=Jackson : accessed 19 April 2024)
4. ↑ Chester County, Pennsylvania Will Abstracts US GenWeb Archives Book A: 154 Katherine Fredd August, 23, 1723 http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/wills/h/hutton-abs.txt

Acknowledgments

• WikiTree profile Starkey-270 created through the import of partial tree 2012.ged on Nov 10, 2012 by Jo Gessford.