Lives in Cricket No 43 - John Jackson

90 Family Life and Decline 1880 to 1901 Liverpool or in various cheap lodging houses in the Liverpool Docks area. On one occasion he was admitted to the workhouse after being found by a policeman collapsed in a shop doorway in Russia Street In May 1901 Jackson was admitted to the Workhouse Infirmary after a fall in his lodgings at 31 Duke Street. Duke Street had declined from being a street where three Mayors of Liverpool had once lived along with leading merchants to somewhere that offered cheap lodgings to the poor and unemployed for just a few pence a night. He died there on 4 November 1901 of complications brought on by his fall. He was buried in Toxteth Cemetery, Smithtown Road with the Rev’d W.Hardern, the Brownlow Hill Workhouse Chaplain, officiating at the service and the interment as well as giving the Address. Although Jackson had clearly died as a pauper, the funeral expenses were defrayed by a fund set up by the Suggs through the Liverpool papers and supported by many old cricketing friends which was well subscribed so this was not strictly a pauper’s funeral. Jackson’s son, Samuel, bought the plot where his father was buried and he was eventually to be buried in the same plot. Liverpool Echo report of John Jackson’s funeral.