Jane Jackson

  Research Notes:

Reg Roughan notes:
John Horsely (1834) married Jane Jackson (1784) who also married Robert Cross (1776) above statement is incorrect, as the following will show: John Horsley (d. 1834), once a Captain in the RRHG, was married in England during 1804, to Maria Champion Crespigny. The couple had no known children. John did not marry again.Jane Jackson married Robert Cross in Yorkshire in 1806 and the couple had four children in England: William Cross, b. 1807; Jane Ellen Cross, b. 1809; Ralph Jackson Cross, b. 1810 Robert Cross, b. 1813. 1814 Jane followed her husband to NSW, he in the Surrey, she in the Broxbornebury. Jane was accompanied by her three eldest children. Perhaps the youngest, Robert Jr., did not survive infancy. also did not marry again, but she formed an alliance with John Horsley in NSW, first as his housekeeper, later as his common law wife. They had eight children together between 1816 and 1831: Fanny, John, Mary M (sic)*, Caroline, Charles W (sic)*, Eliz. V (sic)*, George and Charlotte. (* Middle initials recorded in NSW Census of 1928.) family story has it that Robert and Jane did not re-establish relations in NSW, other than Robert taking responsibility for their three children.

  Noted events in her life were:

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Jane married Robert C. Cross, son of William Cross and Ann Hobson, on 11 Aug 1806 in Humbleton, Yorkshire England. (Robert C. Cross was born in 1776 in Kingston-Upon-Hull, South Yorkshire England, christened on 23 Nov 1784 in Sproatley, East Yorkshire England, died on 20 Sep 1864 in Highland St, West Maitland, NSW Australia and was buried on 22 Sep 1864.)

Jane had a relationship with Captain John Horsley in 1815 in Liverpool, Sydney, NSW Australia.¹⁹ (Captain John Horsley was born in 1769 in London England ¹⁹ and died on 4 Feb 1834.)