The Jam?son surname has so many variations and quite a few derivations it proves all the more so that it has spontaneously come from several origins for one reason or another. This brief will provide some answers and spur more questions, yet, hopefully, provide an idea of the development of the families and clans our branches came from and how they interacted with history. READ MORE

Winfield House, the Jameson Estate and the Townland and Curraghaun of Windfield Demesne in County Galway, Ireland READ MORE

There are not a lot of professional heraldic artists in the world, however one of the best, most accomplished, prolific and well known professional heraldic artists, is a Jamieson. He is Andrew Stewart Jamieson, who lives and works in the UK and has been working at his trade professionally now, for well more than three decades. READ MORE

Green B. Jamison, died at the Alamo in that famous battle of 1836. He was the chief engineer under Jim Bowie and Bill Travis and served with Davey Crocket and some 200 plus other doomed defendants, all of whom perished in what was a bloody siege and eventual massacre, while defending the Alamo, the last stronghold in that area at that time. READ MORE

Just about everyone has heard about Benedict Arnold, the infamous turncoat traitor American General or the American Revolution who in 1780 betraid his country. What is less known is the part one of our Jameson cousins made in the discovery of Arnold's betrayal.

Jameson who had severed with General George Washington was under the command of Benedict Arnold, Commandant at West Point, came in contact with John André (calling himself John Anderson), who was a British Spy and concealing important documents betraying the American Army. One thing lead to another and eventually revealing Benedict Arnold as a spy. READ MORE

It was with trepidation that I made my way to the Head Master’s Office that October day in 1950. I had an uneasy feeling. I had been summoned there before, but usually for something punitive. As I write this, 68 years later, I remember well that summons. READ MORE

In a jungle clearing in an unmapped region of the Congo River basin, an Irish gentleman discusses the rites and rituals of cannibalism with a slave trader. James ‘Sligo’ Jameson, scion of the famous whiskey-distilling family and one of the great naturalists of the late-nineteenth-century ‘age of exploration’, is far from home, fever-wracked and travelling under the dubious protection of the notorious Arab slave master Tippu Tib. READ MORE

The Jameson Tavern in Freeport Maine, was one of the oldest operating Taverns in Maine. It was built in 1799 and purchased by Captain Samuel Jameson, who with his wife, Anne, ran it as Jameson's Tavern beginning in 1801. The inn was a favorite meeting place for many years during the time that the Province of Maine was pursuing independence from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. READ MORE

Dunnottar Castle in Scotland, is a famous and imposing fortress built upon a rocky headland on the northeast coast of Scotland, probably best known as the place where the the Scottish crown jewels were hidden from Oliver Cromwell's invading army in the 17th century. What is not all that well known, is that some of our Jam?son ancestors played a part in this event. Here is that story: READ MORE

The journey from the north of Ireland to New England in 1718 was not by any means the first migration of people from Ireland to America, but it is probably the first that was organized to bring groups of settlers from one definite catchment area, and importantly, these were people who wanted to continue to live together in the new land, which is an aspect of the whole thing that makes it particularly interesting for us as family historians.

So, with the opportunity to catch public attention as we approach the tercentenary next year. People on both sides of the Atlantic are organising exciting events and projects. There will be re-enactments, television documentaries, a book of essays and more. Ideally we would hope to bring people together, either virtually to discuss ancestry, or in reality, to experience the places that our ancestors and forebears left from or went to. READ MORE