Miss Meinertzhagen
(1838-1897)
25 September 1860
[Identified as ‘Miss Meinertzhagen’ in the Silvy daybooks, this is almost certainly Miss Hermine Meinertzhagen, elder daughter of Daniel and Amelia Meinertzhagen.]
Born on 2 July 1838, Hermine Meinerzthagen was the elder daughter of German merchant Daniel Meinertzhagen and his wife Amelia. She was baptised at St Peter le Poer in the City of London on 8 August 1838. At the time of Hermine’s baptism the family was living on South Street, Finsbury Square.
By the time that the census was taken in 1861, they were living in Marylebone at 28 Devonshire Place. The household included a governess and nine servants, among them a butler and a footman.
On 24 June 1862, at St Marylebone, Hermine married Thomas Hughes Jackson, son of industrialist and railway entrepreneur William Jackson, a Parliamentary reformer and staunch supporter of free trade, who sat in the House of Commons in the Liberal interest from 1847 to 1868.
The marriage produced eleven children.
At the time of his marriage Thomas gave 'merchant' as his profession. He later became a ship owner and the chairman of the Liverpool Steamship Owners Association.
Mrs Hermine Jackson died on 29 June 1897 at the Manor House, Claughton, Cheshire. She left an estate valued at £7145. She was buried in the family vault at Flaybrick Hill Cemetery.
DEATH OF MRS T.H. JACKSON, OF CLAUGHTON — We regret to announce the death of Mrs Thos. H. Jackson, wife of Mr T.H. Jackson, Manor House, Claughton, which took place during the early hours of Tuesday morning. Last week Mr and Mrs Jackson went to London to witness the Jubilee procession, and subsequently journeyed to Spithead, where they joined the “Teutonic,” and saw the naval reviews, returning to Liverpool on Monday evening. Mrs Jackson seemed in her usual health on Monday evening when she retired to rest. She did not appear at the usual hour on Tuesday, and it was thought she was resting from the fatigue of the previous day, but at 10 o’clock, on the room being entered, she was found dead. The deceased lady was the eldest daughter of Mr Daniel Meinerzthagen of Wimbledon, and leaves a family of three daughters (one of whom is the Mayoress of Chesterfield) and seven sons. She has [sic] been an invalid for a number of years, and had travelled extensively for her health. On one occasion, while voyaging with her daughters, she was wrecked in the steamer Cotopaxi, in the Straights of Magellan. She was well known in social and charitable circles in Birkenhead, and was on the committee of the Albert Industrial Schools and Birkenhead Ladies Charity, besides taking an active interest in a number of other charities. Mr and Mrs Jackson have resided in the Manor House since 1869, about five years after the death of the late Sir William Jackson (Derbyshire Courier, 3 July 1897).
Her husband lived on for more than thirty years. When he died at The Manor House, Birkenhead in 1930, aged 95, he left an estate valued at £663,492 (at least £50 million in today’s money).