Who am I? William Jones/Jackson and Ann Wooley (couple 1)

[Dad's paternal grandfather's paternal Grandparents]
[V.O. Jackson > David Jackson > Jackson/Wooley]

Here's a bit of history exerpted from a record retyped on April 29, 2013 by John Olsen on FamilySearch.org. Spelling and grammar have been corrected.

William Jackson was born in Cardiff, South Wales, October 27, 1829. Little is left in the record of his early life except the sad fact that death deprived him of the love and guidance of a mother, while he was very young. In fact, he was so small a the time of his mother's death that he had no remembrance of her. His father's second marriage brought no maternal love into the home for young William. As time passed his home life became unbearable because of his stepmother's attitude toward him. One day when he was about nine years old she gave him a violent whipping and William ran away from home and went down to the sea shore where he eked out a precarious living doing what odd jobs a youngster of that age could find. 

　　His proximity to the shipping business brought tales of far off countries. The romance and mystery of the seas called and since he had become very friendly with many of the sailors, he worked out a deal with them in his answer to the far off call. He was too young to cast his lot with the sailors and become one of them so after some conniving, he was put in an oatmeal barrel had some excalcis packed around him for fake packing of a barrel of dishes, and was loaded on a merchant vessel. After the boat was far enough out in the sea that he could not be sent back his faking friends let him out of the barrel and William's life as a seaman began. First he was the errand boy or messenger for the seamen. From this his positions developed to the more responsible ones as his age would allow progression. 

　　The life of the sea became a part of William and he was fascinated with the life it offered. He never did return to his home in Cardiff and lost account of his family at home. He left merchant vessels and transferred to passenger ships as cook. While on one of his trips across the Atlantic ocean William met, by chance, Ann Wooley. Ann was the daughter of Jane and William Wooley who had joined the LDS Church in England and were on their way to Utah for the sake of their new faith. Ann's mother was very fussy about her tea and it was one of Ann's daily duty to go to the boat's kitchen and make her mother's tea. It was on these little trips to the kitchen that she met William Jackson. A mutual attraction developed and a romantic ship board romance ensued. Naturally a trip that required six weeks, with frequent trips to the kitchen and romantic moons spraying their silver streaks on the spacious ocean making a perfect setting for love game William another wonder-lust, and he felt that there was something else waiting for him, to complete his life besides the call of the ocean waters. When they finally arrived in the eastern port William bid farewell to his life on ships and [made his journey] with Ann and her parents. 　　　　William, Ann and her mother and father and others who had joined the church joined with Captain Jones' company whose wagon train arrived in Salt Lake City, Oct. 17, 1853, after several months of a long laborious trek filled with many burdensome trials and hardships across the plains. Ann walked all the way across the plains in order that room might be had in the wagons for her mother who was ill and her father who was unable to walk because he had contracted rheumatism. It was customary for her, along with Mrs. Elizabeth Layton, to start along ahead of the wagon train but they had to be very cautious of the Indians who were imperiling the immigrants at that time. Though this long journey was tiring it was not void of many happy memories. The evenings afforded time and inclination for good times in the form of campfire parties for the members of the train, various games and singing was one of the common evening events. The enchantment of romance grew very great and Ann and William were married on the plains, in the midst of this great journey. After arriving in Salt Lake, Ann and William Jackson moved to Kaysville where they spent the winter with Henry Wooley, a brother of Ann's who had joined the church and came to Utah a while before and sent for his mother and father and sister Ann.

　　This first winter William secured work with Mr. Walton, in Bountiful. Each Saturday evening, after work he would walk to Kaysville to be with his wife over the weekend, then return to work on Monday morning. In the spring of 1854, they moved to west Bountiful where they lived for sometime in a log house. Later that secured the homestead where their son John Jackson now lives. William was a very ambitions man. Incidents in his life testify of his thrift, ambition and spirituality. At one time he worked for six weeks and received a spade for his wage. Machinery and tools of all kinds were very valuable because of their scarcity. The next day with his new implement, he earned a five dollar gold piece digging drains. It was William Jackson and Robert Calder who owned and operated the first thrashing machine in his vicinity. They used to go as far north as Cache County with their thrashing machine. William was very generous and charitable. While the old adobe meeting house, they ran out of adobes. When brother Hyrum Grant made this known William gave the ward his adobe granary to the cause. William joined the church, but going to church did not interfere with his work. His charity, tolorance, ambition and his mode of every day living was his expression of religion. There were eleven children born to Ann and William. All were fine people and lived to maturity and were married before any of them passed away. William was a kind father,a good husband, a true and loyal friend as well as an understanding & charitable neighbor. When the Black Hawk war broke out, William enlisted and served in this battle until its end. He passed on to his reward January 25, 1895.

　　　　Mrs. Ann Jackson was brave, and a true Latter Day Saint, enduring without a murmur all the trials and hardships incident to pioneer life. Industrious and thrifty she toiled side by side with her husband to make a home for themselves. Each successful home of that time was a manufactory in itself. Candles, soap, starch all had to be made. Carding of wool, spinning of yarn, weaving of cloth and dyeing were tasks that fell to the lot of the mother. In this Ann was efficient as well as in the rearing and training of a family which she imbued with a desire for righteous living. Ann was an active member of the ward. She identified herself with the church auxiliaries. She was a live-long member of the Relief Society. It was her lot to live fifteen years after the passing of her husband whom she followed, in faith, to the great beyond August 2, 1910.　　

And here's a bit of an explanation from research summary by Tom Allred, MD (tjallred@gmail.com) justifying the evidence behind his name change from Jones to Jackson.

"William described his nuclear family in some detail - giving the names of his parents and siblings, their birth order and approximate years of birth - and he alleged that he was born in Pembroke, Wales. His children had the same names as his siblings interestingly enough. I have examined the birth records from Pembroke, Wales, and no Jackson's were born there between 1800 and 1875. Civil birth records were not started there until 1837 so only church records (for five different parishes, one of them Pater) are available - and no William Jackson is to be found. The was however the family of one David Jones from Lawrenny, Pembrokeshire, Wales - just 5 miles up the Milford Haven estuary from Pembroke Dock - that matches the description of William's nuclear family quite precisely. Same parents' names, same siblings name, same birth order, birth years, etc. , including a William Jones born in 1832. This same family appears in the first British census, in 1841, now residing at Pembroke Dock, the site of a Royal Navy shipyard - where the father David and one older son evidently worked (they are recorded in the census as shipwrights). William is identified in that 1841 (first-ever) British census as a nine-year old boy - and his mother Esther was still alive and present in the home then, according to the census record. The family appears again in the 1851 census, when William would have been 19 - but his father has a new wife (the infamous stepmother of William's stories)- but William is gone, although other siblings - including a probable stepbrother - were still present in the home. We find William's name in the British Merchant Navy records in about 1847 (the Merchant Navy was the Reserve for the Royal Navy so careful records of ships, crew and voyages were kept from 1835 to 1857). But then he disappears - only to reappear in 1853, now called William Jackson, as a sailor on the immigrant ship Falcon, which incidentally was an American ship out of Boston - although there were three different ships named Falcon registered out of Liverpool. Why he changed his name is a matter of speculation and we may never know - at least until we can ask him. We are attempting to find a Jones from Lawrenny or Pembroke with unbroken male ancestry there back to the first part of the 19th century so that we can compare Y-chromosome DNA. That will be the definitive proof!"