Hon. John Rawleigh Jackson

Resident Jamaica slave-owner, charged in 1831 with his wife Elizabeth Walker Jackson over their ill-treatment of two enslaved women, Catherine Whitfield and her daughter Ann Amelia King, and subject to a strong condemnation of the couple's behaviour by Goderich in a letter to the Governor of Jamaica, instructing that Jackson be removed from office.

1. The son of Ann Teresia Hobart Rawleigh (b.1756) and Robert Jackson (1736-1817). His siblings were Elizabeth Rawleigh Jackson; Dorothy Gray Jackson; Robert Smellie Jackson and Margaret Jackson Sister of Margaret Mercy Rawleigh; William Walter Gadd Rawleigh; Matthias Allen Rawleigh and Elizabeth Crichton Rawleigh. Member of the Jamaica House of Assembly as a representative for Port Royal. He married Elizabeth Walker Strupar. They had three children - two boys (John Rawleigh Jackson and Robert Jackson) and a girl (Ann).

Sue Thomas, Imperialism, Reform and the Making of Englishness in Jane Eyre (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), p. 115.

1. "Jamaica Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VH6C-3YQ : accessed 27 January 2015), John Rawleigh Jackson, 27 Apr 1811, Christening; citing p. 233, Kingston, Jamaica, Registrar General's Department, Spanish Town; FHL microfilm 1,291,763.