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JACOBS, Mary {I03769} (b. 1820, d. 1898)

Note: Reputedly named the suburb of Ryde in Sydney
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From the Ryde Council website:
Ryde
By 1841 the new name, Ryde, was emerging for the district. It derived from Ryde on the Isle of Wight and first appeared on a subdivision plan for the proposed village to be created around St. Anne's Church. The English Ryde was the birthplace of the wife of the vicar of St. Anne's, the Reverend George Turner, and also of George Miller Pope, Kissing Point's first postmaster.
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Emigration: Date: 1838
Place: To Australia

Religion: Place: Port Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Note: Never married - lived with her parents most of her life

Source: (Birth)
Title: AnecdotalSource Medium: Unknown
Source Quality: Low
Verbal or handwritten (unpublished) family stories, letters, conversations etc. Dubious quality - all require substantiation.

Page: Nicola Sutton, NZ

Source: (Birth)
Author: IOW Family History Society
Title: Isle of Wight FHS
Publication: Name: On line database;Source Medium: Book
Source Quality: mediumRepository:

Name: http://www.isle-of-wight-fhs.co.uk/

Data:
Text: mother Brine

Note: PH.D., B.SC. Dr.
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Jacobs, Maxwell Ralph (1905 - 1979)

Birth:
25 February 1905, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Death:
9 October 1979, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Occupation:

* army officer
* forester
* public servant

* Life Summary
* Abbreviations

JACOBS, MAXWELL RALPH (1905-1979), forester, was born on 25 February 1905 in North Adelaide, son of Isaac Jacobs, schoolteacher, and his wife Bertha Marion, née Shorney, both South Australian born. Educated at Unley High School and the University of Adelaide (B.Sc., 1925; M.Sc., 1936), Max was awarded a Lowrie postgraduate scholarship to the Waite Agricultural Research Institute. He was appointed forest assessor in the Federal Capital Territory in 1926 and promoted chief forester in 1928. A Commonwealth scholarship took him to the University of Oxford (diploma in forestry, 1931) and to the Forstliche Hochschule Tharandt, Germany (doctorate in forest science, Technische Hochschule Dresden, 1932).

Returning to Australia, Jacobs was appointed a research officer with the Commonwealth Forestry Bureau, Canberra, in January 1933 and that year made a reconnaissance of the then little-known forest resources of the Northern Territory. On 23 December 1933 he married Phyllis Vesper Quinton (d.1976) at St David's Presbyterian Church, Haberfield, Sydney. He carried out original research on the growth stresses of trees and the effects of wind sway, and experimented with the use of cuttings for propagating radiata pine. His extensive studies of the anatomy of the bud systems and the silvicultural behaviour of various eucalypts in Australia were to be consolidated in his Growth Habits of the Eucalypts (Canberra, 1955) which became a standard international text. In 1939 he was awarded a fellowship from the Commonwealth Fund and attended Yale University (Ph.D., 1941), United States of America, where he continued his investigations into growth stresses.

Back home, on 19 March 1942 Jacobs was mobilized in the Militia as a temporary captain and appointed deputy assistant director, engineering services, Army Headquarters, Melbourne. In 1943-44 he performed staff duties in the directorates of engineering stores and of engineering survey, and served briefly in Papua and New Guinea. He transferred to the Reserve of Officers as honorary major on 8 November 1944. Next month he was appointed principal and lecturer in silviculture at the Australian Forestry School, Canberra. Over fifteen years 'the Doc' lectured to and professionally guided more than three hundred undergraduates from Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Africa; they returned his warmth and interest with respect and affection.

Jacobs was acting director-general (from December 1959) of the Commonwealth Forestry and Timber Bureau and its director-general (from May 1961). He played a leading role in establishing the Australian Forestry Council in 1964 and chaired its first standing committee; he also chaired other bodies connected with forestry or the forest industries, among them the timber industries committee of the Standards Association of Australia, and wrote numerous papers and reports on Australian forest policy. In 1966 he was appointed I.S.O.

In 1927 Jacobs had joined the Empire (later Commonwealth) Forestry Association; he was a member (1963-69) of its governing council. A foundation member (1935) of the Institute of Foresters of Australia, he was awarded its N. W. Jolly medal in 1962 and elected a fellow in 1969. He was made an honorary member of the New Zealand Institute of Forestry (1958) and of the Society of American Foresters (1966).

After retiring from the Commonwealth Public Service in February 1970, Jacobs worked as a consultant to several national and international bodies, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, at whose request he undertook a massive rewrite of its Eucalypts for Planting (Rome, 1979). He went on a number of missions abroad, particularly in connection with eucalypts. In addition, he was president of the agricultural and forestry section of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, of the Royal Society of Canberra (1948-49) and of the Rotary Club of Canberra (1956-57). His main recreation was golf.

Survived by his two daughters, Jacobs died on 9 October 1979 in Woden Valley Hospital and was cremated. To commemorate his contribution to the discipline, the Institute of Foresters of Australia initiated the M. R. Jacobs fund in 1983. Administered by the Australian Academy of Science, the fund assists individuals to conduct forestry and forest-industry research projects, and to participate in conferences.
Select Bibliography

Commonwealth Forestry Review, 59 (1), no 179, Mar 1980, p 4; Canberra Times, 12 Oct 1979; private information.

Author: L. T. Carron

Print Publication Details: L. T. Carron, 'Jacobs, Maxwell Ralph (1905 - 1979)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 14, Melbourne University Press, 1996, p. 591.

Source: (Birth)
Author: Dept. of Veterans Affairs
Title: Nominal Role WWII, Australian MilitarySource Medium: Electronic
Source Quality: mediumRepository:

Name: http://www.ww2roll.gov.au

Data:
Text: Name JACOBS, MERVYN ROSS Service Royal Australian Air Force Service Number 416580 Date of Birth 5 Mar 1917 Place of Birth PORT LINCOLN, SA Date of Enlistment 21 Jul 1941 Locality on Enlistment Unknown Place of Enlistment ADELAIDE Next of Kin JACOBS, ISAAC Date of Discharge 18 Dec 1945 Rank Flying Officer Posting at Discharge DAF COMMAND WW2 Honours and Gallantry None Prisoner of War No

Occupation: Place: Accountant

Note: Never married, lived in Tasmania

Note: Nancy Jacobs, Biographer of Henry Jacobs, first Dean of Christchurch, NZ

She (Nancy Jacobs) married Robert James Coates in Christchurch in 1915. They had two daughters (maybe other children) - Helen & Emily. Helen(now Garrett) is QSO, BA(NZ) MA(Oxon) She married John Garrett - I think in England and they lived for a period in Canada returning to NZ in 1949. She became the first woman in NZ to serve on a criminal jury & was a Christchurch City councillor for 18years. They had three sons - one is called David.

Source: (Birth)
Author: IOW Family History Society
Title: Isle of Wight FHS
Publication: Name: On line database;Source Medium: Book
Source Quality: mediumRepository:

Name: http://www.isle-of-wight-fhs.co.uk/

Occupation: Place: Nursing Matron

Address: 36 Cardiff Rd / Port Lincoln, SA 5606 / Australia

Source: (Birth)
Author: Jacobs Family Heritage Association, Inc.
Title: Jacobs Ladder
Publication: Name: April 1986, Printer Gillingham Printers Pty. Ltd., Adelaide, SA;
Call number: ISBN:1 86252 161 1Source Medium: Book
Source Quality: Low
Much of the material in this book lacks confirmable source dataRepository:

Name: Held by Michael Jacobs

Source: (Burial)
Title: SA Centennial Park Cemetery
Publication: Name: www.centennialpark.org;Source Medium: ElectronicRepository:

Name: On line

Data:
Text: Norman Vernon Jacobs from LINCOLN Date of Death: 04/09/1975 Age: 75 Years Interment Details: Cremation Section: Row: Path: Site: Licence Number: Licence Expiry Date:

Source: (Death)
Title: Newspaper ArticleSource Medium: Newspaper
Source Quality: Low

Port Lincoln Times, 11/9/1975

Occupation: Place: Accountant

Religion: Place: Centennial Park, Adelaide, SA, AUS

Source: (Birth)
Author: IOW Family History Society
Title: Isle of Wight FHS
Publication: Name: On line database;Source Medium: Book
Source Quality: mediumRepository:

Name: http://www.isle-of-wight-fhs.co.uk/

Data:
Text: Mother brine

Occupation: Place: Clerk

Religion: Place: Happy Valley, South Australia, Australia

Cause: Cancer in head

Note: Leased Spillsby Island for many years. Raised sheep and angora rabbits. Never married and lived alone on the island. Anneke and Michael flew in and visited him about 1976.

Source: (Birth)
Author: Dept. of Veterans Affairs
Title: Nominal Role WWII, Australian MilitarySource Medium: Electronic
Source Quality: mediumRepository:

Name: http://www.ww2roll.gov.au

Data:
Text: Name JACOBS, PERCY LIONEL Service Australian Army Service Number SX565 Date of Birth 15 May 1908 Place of Birth PORT LINCOLN, SA Date of Enlistment 20 Oct 1939 Locality on Enlistment PORT LINCOLN, SA Place of Enlistment PORT LINCOLN, SA Next of Kin JACOBS, HELEN Date of Discharge 14 Nov 1945 Rank Lieutenant Posting at Discharge 2/1 AUST BASE DEPOT MED STORES WW2 Honours and Gallantry None Prisoner of War No

Occupation: Place: Chemist, Sheep Grazier 20 years, Spilsby Island, SA

Source: (Birth)
Author: Dept. of Veterans Affairs
Title: Nominal Role WWII, Australian MilitarySource Medium: Electronic
Source Quality: mediumRepository:

Name: http://www.ww2roll.gov.au

Data:
Text: Name JACOBS, PHILLIP DOUGLAS Service Royal Australian Air Force Service Number 457038 Date of Birth 1 Feb 1927 Place of Birth PT LINCOLN, SA Date of Enlistment 23 Mar 1945 Locality on Enlistment Unknown Place of Enlistment ADELAIDE Next of Kin JACOBS, NORMAN Date of Discharge 10 Jul 1946 Rank Leading Aircraftman Posting at Discharge 4 SCHOOL OF TECHNICAL TRAINING ADELAIDE WW2 Honours and Gallantry None Prisoner of War No

Religion: Place: Kangarilla, South Australia, Australia

Note: Robert Jacobb. 1821 Arreton married Katherine Frances of Newport who was born c.1830

1841 Cenus Living at Chale Abbey aged 20 with his parents

1861 Census living at Heaseley Arreton aged 39. Farmer 563 acres employing 14 men & 3 boys with his wife Katherine Frances aged 31 & 5 children ? Katherine Alice(12 scholar b. Newport), Harry Duncombe (5 scholar b. Arreton), Robert Hearn (4 Scholar b. Arreton), Leonard (4 scholar b. Arreton) & Alfred Mew (8mths, b. Arreton). Also 3 servants (dairymaid & cook, Housemaid, Nursemaid)

1881 census has them living at Baliff?s Court, Climping, West Sussex with Katherine A. b. c 1851, Lilian M. b. c1871 at Billingshurst & Emma L. B. c1873 b.Alton

Source: (Birth)
Author: Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints
Title: International Genealogical Index (IGI)Source Medium: Electronic
Source Quality: Low
This is an index only and requires confirmation of actual recordsRepository:

Name: http://www.familysearch.org

Page: 7125715 Sheet 83
Data:
Text: Robert JACOBS Sex: M Event(s): Christening: 14 Jun 1821 Arreton, Hampshire, England Parents: Father: William Hearne JACOBS Mother: Ann

Source: (Christening)
Author: Isle of Wight, County Records Office,
Title: IOW Card IndexSource Medium: Card
Source Quality: Medium/High
Card index of all parish register entries for baptisms, mariages and burials in the IOW from 1200 to 1920Repository:

Name: Newport, IOW

Page: Arreton Parish records

Residence: Place: Newport, Gent, ENG

Census: Date: 1841
Place: Chale Abbey (Farm) with parents age 20

Census: Date: 1861
Place: Living at Heasley, Arreton

Source: (Baptism)
Author: Stephen Randall (stephen.randall@village.uunet.be)
Title: Randall Transcription of Church Records
Publication: Name: Births, Deaths and marriages from 1550 to 1900 on the IOW;Source Medium: Electronic
Source Quality: Medium
Limited transcription from Parish Records to Access data base formatRepository:

Name: http://gallery.uunet.be/Stephen.Randall

Data:
Text: 2480 Newchurch 1786 1 Dec 1786 JACOB Robert s Robert and Jenny Jacob

Source: (Burial)
Author: Stephen Randall (stephen.randall@village.uunet.be)
Title: Randall Transcription of Church Records
Publication: Name: Births, Deaths and marriages from 1550 to 1900 on the IOW;Source Medium: Electronic
Source Quality: Medium
Limited transcription from Parish Records to Access data base formatRepository:

Name: http://gallery.uunet.be/Stephen.Randall

Data:
Text: 4746 Newchurch 1786 10 Dec 1786 JACOB Robert Son of Robert and Jenny JACOB 0

Religion: Place: Newchurch, IOW, ENG

Note: Household Record 1881 British Census

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Household:

Name Relation Marital Status Gender Age Birthplace Occupation Disability
Robert JACOB Head M Male 59 Arreton, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England No Occupation
Katherine F. JACOB Wife M Female 51 Newport, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England
Katherine A. JACOB Daur U Female 32 Newport, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England
Lilian M. JACOB Daur Female 10 Billingshurst, Sussex, England
Emma L. JACOB Daur Female 8 Alton, Hampshire, England
George RIDDETT Visitor M Male 48 Chichester, Sussex, England Porter

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Source Information:
Dwelling Bailiffs Court
Census Place Climping, Sussex, England
Family History Library Film 1341274
Public Records Office Reference RG11
Piece / Folio 1119 / 43
Page Number 5

Note: Creator(s):
Gunner, Wilson & Jerome, Solicitors

COMMISSIONERS & SURVEYORS

FILE - APPOINTMENT of John Blake Tucker as Deputy Surveyor for parish of Godshill (Sandford) 30 Oct 1850; letter from Robert Jacobs authorising his brother, Clement Jacobs to act as Deputy Surveyor for parish of Newchurch (Knighton) 27 Nov 1850; blank forms of appointment - ref. JER/CHW/10 - date: 1850

Owner of Knighton Farm 133 acres in 1871 census, unmarried

Source: (Baptism)
Author: Stephen Randall (stephen.randall@village.uunet.be)
Title: Randall Transcription of Church Records
Publication: Name: Births, Deaths and marriages from 1550 to 1900 on the IOW;Source Medium: Electronic
Source Quality: Medium
Limited transcription from Parish Records to Access data base formatRepository:

Name: http://gallery.uunet.be/Stephen.Randall

Source: (Individual)
Title: UK Census 1861Source Medium: Book

Source: (Death)
Author: IOW Family History Society
Title: Isle of Wight FHS
Publication: Name: On line database;Source Medium: Book
Source Quality: mediumRepository:

Name: http://www.isle-of-wight-fhs.co.uk/

Page: on line index

Source: (Individual)
Title: UK Census 1871Source Medium: Book

Occupation: Date: 1861
Place: Yeoman, ownes 125 acres

Occupation: Date: 1871
Place: Farmer 133 acres

Religion: Place: Newchurch, IOW, ENG