Miss Emily Ingham
(1837-1917)
5 January 1863

Volume 10, page 15, sitting number 12,428.

Born at Mirfield in Yorkshire on 6 March 1837, Emily Ingham was the third daughter of Joshua Ingham of Blake Hall, Mirfield. Her mother was Mary Cunliffe Ingham née Lister.

When Emily was two years old her governess was briefly Anne Brontë, although it was Emily's older siblings Cunliffe and Mary who made a lasting impression on the future novelist. Brontë found them a pair of spoilt little dunces and later immortalised them in her debut novel Agnes Grey, first published in 1847, in which Blake Hall and the Inghams are disguised as Wellwood House and the Bloomfields.

On 29 March 1864 Emily, aged 27, married William Charles Ward Jackson, son of Ralph Ward Jackson of Greatham Hall, Durham.

In 1871 the couple were living at Melton or Milton House, Great Malvern with their two young children. Also present on the night of the census were ten servants, including a butler, a coachman and a groom.

In 1891 Emily and her husband were living at Emery Down, Lyndhurst, Hampshire.

In 1911 they were at Camp Hill, Lyndhurst, Hampshire. Also present that night were son William Ralph Ward Jackson, a barrister, and three servants.

Mrs Emily Ward Jackson died, aged 80, on 11 September 1917 at Camp Hill, Lyndhurst. She left effects valued at £923.