Renier ~ Quesnel ~ Hopkins ~ Jackson
Harriet, my great grandmother was brought up by her grandparents having been orphaned at the age of eight. When she was about fifteen she became too much to handle (Elizabeth ((Renier/Quesnel)) and John Taylor) and was sent to an aunt’s on the island of Guernsey. Her story fascinated me.
Through her love of dancing she met Thomas Jackson:
Thomas and Harriet were married in Trinity Church, St Peter Port, Guernsey, on 20th November 1970
Harriet and Thomas lived with Thomas’s parents in 1891:
They started a family on Guernsey:
Also note here that Harriet is now listed as Jane, which she was known by for the remainder of her life.
Jane (Harriet) and Thomas Jackson had four children before they relocated from Guernsey to Woolston Southampton on mainland Britain in search of work, taking the children with them. Yet again my imagination was stirred and inspired in Riduna (although the dates in fiction were not true to the family by this time.)
Diana Jackson 