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His parents lived in Wetwang, the parish of Garton on the Wolds in 1891 according to the 1891 census. The next year they moved to Grove Hill Road in Beverley where Harry was born.
Harry Goodwill Jackson was born on the 10th of November 1892 in Beverley to his father John Timothy Jackson, a bricklayer, and mother Mary Jackson, a housewife. Alongside his parents He also lived with two older brothers named George Jackson and Walter Jackson. At 9 trinity terrace grove hill road, he lived alongside his parents and brothers at 8 years old and later moved with his parents to 1 Norton Street when he was around 18. The 1911 census shows that his brothers moved out before 1911. In 1911 he was working as a shop assistant in a boot shop in Beverley.
During the first world war he served alongside the Indian Expeditionary Army and at some point in time in his service was stationed at Convalescent Station in Deolali, India.
He came back to Beverley after the ending of the First World War where he moved back in with his parents. On the 1921 census we can see that he was living back at 1 Norton Street with his mother and father, at this time he was 29 years old and was working as a Leather Warehouse man for Hodgson and Sons Ltd tanners in Flemingate. The census also states that his brother George Jackson’s son was also living with them at Norton Street.
Harry Goodwill Jackson passed away in Hull in October 1979 aged 86 years old.
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