Jacka Name Study

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About the Project

The Jacka Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Jacka name and its variants Jacca, Jackah, Jacke, Jaco, Jacco, Jackow, Jackka. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the Jacka name and it's variants.

As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. researchers can participate as Individual or as team studies to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically Cornwall Jacka's, by time period, or by topic such as England Census for Jacka. These studies may also include a number of family branches which have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile fully sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project.

Also see the related surnames and surname variants.

Jacka Name Study - Top of Tree

How to Join

To join the JACKA Name Study, first, start out by browsing our current teams and research pages (via our Table of Contents page) to see if there is a specific study ongoing that fits your interests. If so, feel free to add your name to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment on the specific team/research page, and then dive right in!

If a team or research page does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, please contact the Name Study Coordinator: Sandra Williamson for assistance.

If you have any questions, just ask. Thanks! For those wishing to tag their 'Jacka' Profiles to this One Name Study please use the tag: [[One Name Study|name=Jacka]]. It will link it to this project.

Research Pages

As the Study has evolved so has the Study structure, to get a birdseye view of what is going on it may be easier to the Table of Contents for the Jack Name Study, which is reviewed frequently, to allow those involved with the project to beware of how things are changing.

Related Surnames and Surname Variants

Evolution of the Jacka Surname in Britain According to ‘The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland’ the Jacka surname is an English Cornish name “in which pronunciation of the final - e of Middle English and early Modern English Jakke is preserved and written as – a.” The entry also goes onto say that Jacko “appears to be a reinterpretation of Jacka” as a variant of Jack with the Cornish suffix of ‘o’ or ‘ow’ which could possibly be a specifically Cornish pet form of Jack.

The entry also identifies the following early bearers of the surname: John Jakke, 1480 in Cornish Lands (Lanherne, in Saint Mawgan in Pyder, Cornwall); Robert Jacke, 1499 in Cornish Lands (Winnington, Cornwall); Harry Jacka, 1571 in IGI (Gwithian, Cornwall); Richard Jacko, 1662, Samuel Jackah, 1766 in IGI (Kenwyn, Cornwall); Jtty Jaco, 1720 in IGI (Saint Allen, Cornwall).

Research Strategy & Task List

Aim to gather all Cornish Jacka profiles into the Jacka name study one place. For work completed so far see the following Jacka profiles on Wikitree, using various spellings Jacca profiles; Jacka profiles; Jackah profiles; Jacke profiles; Jaco profiles; Jacco profiles; Jackow profiles; Jackka profiles.

Aim to analyse Census data - to confirm relationships by triangulating census & parish records, initially focusing on English Census data between 1841 and 1891. For work completed click the following links 1841 Census data; 1851 Census data; 1861 Census data; 1871 Census data. Work has now begun on the 1881 Census.

Aim to review all Cornish parish registers to check that all Jacka baptisms, marriages and burials are accounted for on WikiTree for data so far collected, click this link to see the data collected so far

Aim to review Jacka Probate Records which will allow us to confirm family relationships see here for more detail Click here

Aim to expand the Jacka Name Study to include places other than Cornwall which will allow us to identify the Jacka migration patterns across the world, and ultimately after records began where the name may have geographically originated, and how the spelling of the surname has also evolved.

Resources

Keep up to date and see questions and discussion concerning the surname here G2G feed of Questions tagged “Jacka”

Additional Tasks

Looking for something to do? If you've put up all of the Jackas in your family (or at least all the ones you've found so far), and are looking for something else to do, here are some tasks that you might be willing to help with:

Orphaned Jacka profiles on WikiTree that need caretakers click individual links to see those profiles requiring support:- Orphaned Jacca profiles, Orphaned Jacka profiles, Orphaned Jaco profiles, Orphaned Jackah profiles, Orphaned Jaco profiles, Orphaned Jacco profiles, Orphaned Jackow profiles, Orphaned Jackka profiles.

Unconnected profiles on the following Jacka profiles remain adrift, either as individuals or small family groupings, from the main WikiTree and need further research to link them into the larger tree. The list is dynamic and unpdated regularly so come back and review frequently. Click individual links below to see those profiles requiring connection:- Jacca, Jackah, Jacke, Jaco, Jacco, Jackow