A Brief Resume
Michael Hillier Jackson and Josephine Alexandra Jackson (nee Pearson)
- Myself
- Born in Palestine many years ago, Educated? in Birmingham (West Midlands not Alabama).
- Left home to join REME Junior Leaders in 1960, transferred to Intelligence Corps in 1962
- Served with 13 Signals Regiment, 15 Intelligence Platoon (Bde), 9 Signals Regiment, Back to 13, E Troop – Girdwood Bks Belfast , 14 Signals Regiment Langeleben, roughly in that order up to March ’84.
- Moved to Northern Ireland, to join my wife Josephine. A born and bred Belfast Girl.
- Fell out with Brits over citizenship (bit like Spike Milligan -‘cept I’m still alive – just!) and am now naturalized Irish.
- Having worked for SOS Group for 33 years and seen them taken over by McLaughlin & Harvey I finally retired on 6 December 2017
- Josephine
- A born and bred Belfast Girl
- Educated at Mount Collier, Limestone Road
- Worked as a presser and later as a full time mother
We have, as at November 2025
- 4 children, three boys and a girl
- 5 granddaughters – the eldest at 39 is a year younger than our youngest son
- 1 grandson
- 7 great-grandchildren
Our interests, apart from our family, include cooking, socializing with friends and members of the Newtownabbey Mens and Womens Sheds https://menssheds.ie/sheds/newtownabbey-mens-shed/, where I have just been elected as treasurer, the garden and remaining vertical, not necessarily in that order!
Unfortunately since late September ’25 I am dependent on oxygen so our days of travel are over.