GEORGE JACKMAN AND SON OF WOKING, NURSERYMEN: RECORDS

A detailed summary of the contents is below:

1216/1/ PARTNERSHIP PAPERS 1832-1943

1216/2/ TITLE TO LAND IN WOKING AND CHOBHAM 1908-1961

1216/3/ BOOKS AND PAPERS RELATING TO CLEMATIS CULTIVATION 1858-1918
Includes Clematis Jackmanii

1216/4/ WEEKLY WAGE BOOKS AND OTHER PAYMENTS TO GARDENERS 1910-1940

1216/5/ CORRESPONDENCE 1874-1936
Out Letter Books, mainly relating to property, some to past or prospective workers, some about horticulture. Indexed.

1216/6/ VOLUME RELATING TO GOLDSWORTH BRICKFIELDS 1877-1888

1216/7/ FOREMEN'S CATALOGUES 1900-1902

1216/8/ WHOLESALE PLANT CATALOGUES 1884-1936

1216/9/ RETAIL PLANT CATALOGUES 1880-1938

1216/10/ SEED CATALOGUES 1909

1216/11/ PLANT AUCTION CATALOGUES 1904-1941

1216/12/ 'THE PLANTER'S HANDBOOK: A CATALOGUE OF PLANTS' 1936-1969

1216/13/ PAPERS RELATING TO PROPOSED NEW RAILWAY STATION AT ST JOHN'S, WOKING 1882-1883

1216/14/ PHOTOGRAPHS 1880s-1940

1216/14/ Workers 1880s
1216/14/ Moving of large trees c.1907-1919
See also 1216/9/4-11, particularly 1216/9/5-7.
1216/14/ Nursery land c.1917-c.1940

1216/ STAFF MEMOIRS AND EARLY HISTORY OF THE FIRM 1949-1958
Foremen's reminiscences were written for G R Jackman.

1216/ JACKMAN FAMILY PAPERS 1865-1952

1216/ MAPS 1870s

Jackman's Nursery, which claimed to have begun in 1810, was certainly in existence in 1832 when the first George Jackman (1802-69) dissolved his partnership with Henry Jackman (1216/1/3). However the Jackman family may well have been nurserymen on a site at Goldsworth, Woking, from the early 19th century. A copy of court roll of the manor of Woking in 1831 (1475/3) contains the presentment of the death of Sarah, widow of William Jackman the elder of Woking, nurseryman, who had been admitted to various lands in Goldsworth in 1802 and 1823. The second George Jackman (1837-1887) made the name of the business by his successful experiments in hybridising clematis (1216/3). After his unexpected death the firm had to move from its original site round the family home 'The Hollies' at St John's, Woking, to 'Bedfords', nearby; Arthur George Jackman (1866-1926) and other members of the family took it over in 1894 (1216/5/3), and in 1967 Mr G R Jackman, of the next generation, sold the business. It was at this time, when it again moved its premises, that Mr Jackman deposited the surviving papers.

There are no access restrictions.

Deposited in 1967 and 1969 by Mr George Rowland Jackman.

An item level description of the archive is available on the Surrey History Centre online catalogue

For Jackman family wills and deeds of land at Goldsworth, Woking, 1768-1880, see 1475.
For a nursery catalogue of plants, 1904-1905, see 2774.
For planter's handbooks, 1936-1937, 1949-1950, 1964-1966, see 6732, 8467, 6973, 8631, 8901.

Surrey History Centre also holds records of other nursery and horticultural businesses including John Waterer and Sons of Bagshot, Walter C Slocock of Knaphill, F and G Mizen of Woking, Cobbett family of Horsell, and T Hilling and Co of Chobham. Records of horticultural societies at Cobham, Ewell, Limspfield, Mickleham, Ottershaw, Oxted, Redhill, Reigate and Worplesdon are also held.