Ireland; County Armagh, County Londonderry and County Cavan
Jackson of Forkhill — Richard Jackson and the inherited shoveller achievement
- Family / house
- Jackson of Forkhill; Jackson of Coleraine; Jackson of Kirkby Lonsdale; Otway; Beresford; Boyd
- Family / cadet branch
- Forkhill branch descended from the Coleraine Jackson family
- Armiger / bearer
- Richard Jackson of Forkhill, Esq.
- Entity type
- individual
- Social rank / class
- landed_gentry
- Heraldic authority
- Ulster heraldic tradition; Burke-derived armorial sources; Registry of Deeds; T.G.F. Patterson tradition
- Record basis
- ancient_usage
- Issued / first recorded
- c.1722
- Until / superseded
- 11 June 1787
- Historical period
- Eighteenth-century Irish landed gentry
- Blazon
- Gules, three shovellers tufted on the head and breast Argent, each charged with a trefoil Vert.
- Plain-English description
- A red shield bearing three silver shoveller birds, each marked with a green trefoil. The shovellers are tufted on both head and breast. The bird is repeated as the crest.
- Tinctures
- Gules; Argent; Vert
- Charges / ordinaries
- Three shovellers tufted on the head and breast; Three trefoils
- Crest
- On a wreath of the colours, a shoveller as in the arms.
- Motto
- MALO MORI QUAM FOEDARI
- Difference / variant
- The Forkhill coat is the established family achievement associated with Richard Jackson and his branch. It is not a new coat created through his marriage to Nicola Ann Cecil Hamilton.
- Source reference
- The Silver Bowl, Jackson crests and armorial notes
- Linked historical person
- Richard Jackson of Forkhill
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- Richard Jackson of Coleraine and Dublin, probably 1658-1730
- Mother
- Elizabeth Boyd, according to the family reconstruction; earlier abstracts identify his mother less securely
- Spouse(s)
- Nichola Ann Cecil Hamilton, married 1750
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
The armorial wording is preserved in Burke-derived sources as 'shovellers tufted on the head and breast'. Some secondary transcriptions omit 'slipped' from the trefoils; the more complete form should be retained provisionally as each charged with a trefoil Vert unless an original Ulster grant or pedigree is consulted.