Welcome to the Jester One Name Study
This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about the Jester surname and its variants. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect. Please add categories to your profiles, add your questions to the bulletin board, add details of your name research, etc.
Project Leader: Lynette Jester
Goals of the Jester Name Study
- To connect all individual profiles sharing the surname Jester, and its variations.
- To connect all of the genealogists researching Jester families for more effective collaboration and support for their work.
- To merge identical person records and maintain a clean, reliable source of Jester family history.
- To share the fun of discovering our ancestors and telling their stories.
- In order the trace the growth of the entire family and bloodline, we invite spouses and children to be tagged with Category:Jester Name Study in [[]] .
The Jester Name
The Jester for the etymology and history of Occupational Jesters.
Earliest Jesters Found
On 11 April 1999 Pat Friesien the administrator of the Jester-L mailing list at Rootweb.com, posted this tidbit of information
The earliest recorded instance of the name in English documents dates from as early as 1377. In that year, the Court Rolls of the Borough of Colchester recorded one John Gestour as living in the county of Essex. The name however, was not widespread in Enland, few cases being documented until much later when in 1666, the baptism of one Elizabeth, daughter to Christopher Jester, was recorded in the church register of St. James', Clerkenwell.
Featured Profiles
Jester Brickwalls
- David A. Jester b. 1812 Accomack County, VA m. Lodemia Ayars
- Levi Jester b.a 1818 DE m. Diadima McKinney
- William Jester b.a 1728 Scotland? d.a 1820 GA
- William N. Jester b.a 1835 GA m. Nancy Wade pos s/of Susan Jenkins
- Peter Jester b.a 1800 Appoquinimink Hnd, New Castle, DE
- James T. Jester c. 1801 Delaware
Notable Jesters
- Beauford Halbert Jester Governor of Texas
- George Taylor Jester Lt. Gov. of Texas
- John Roberts Jester Baptist Minister
- Annie S. Lash Jester Mrs Jester, worthy of being a notable Jester due to her work Adventurers of Purse and Person
- Alexander Calhoun Jester One time brother-in-law to Buffalo Bill
- Maurice D. Jester First USCG to receive Navy Cross for the sinking of U-Boat 352, capturing 33 survivors, near Cape Lookout, NC
- Ralph Kouns Jester Twice Academy Award Nominee, set and costume designer, sculpter and artist.
Black Sheep Jesters
- William Alexander Jester accused, acquitted, then admitted to killing young Gilbert Gates
- Maskell Jester jailed for abusing his wife, commits suicide
Jester DNA Studies and Facebook
Jester DNA Group Send SUBSCRIBE email to jester_dna_group[@]googlegroups.com or Mojavelyn[@]gmail.com Share your GEDmatch.com number and we'll run you against over 300 numbers of confirmed and suspected Jesters as of 24 Feb 2018
Jester Genes a closed group on Facebook. [1]
Wes Jester has his own website also, Epjester EPJester] for Peter Jester and his descendants. Wes has been more the a tremendous help in getting the newsletters in to a PDF format so we can share them on Wikitree. Many Thanks to him.
Y-DNA Groups at FTDNA
So far 3 Y Haplogroups have been identified at FTDNA. These results can be seen in the Jester Project at FTDNA. Recently FTDNA upgraded and recalculated the Y groups. My line which is now R-U152 was R-M269. The line that was I-M233 is now I-PH1146. . R-M269 is linked to Descendents of Richard Jester R-U152 is linked to Lancelot Jasper I-PH1146 is linked to Peter Jester
Jester Named Businesses
Google for the websites
Jester King Brewery Austin, Texas
Jester's Junction Thibodaux, Louisiana
Jester Park Golf Course Des Moines, Iowa
Attempting to Fight the Errors made in Jester Genealogy on Other Sites
Why William N. Is Not of the House of Thomas b. 1765
Why Priscilla Is Not the Mother of William's Children Nor Married To Him
James T. is not the same as James son of Levi
Jester Resources
- HISTORY OF ONE JESTER FAMILY by Dr. John Roberts Jester, Winston-Salem, NC 1933
- DEEP IN THE HEART by J. Garner Phillips History of the Jester, McKinney and related families of Beauford Jester, Gov. TX.
- Jester-L@Rootsweb.com now inactive but the messages are still available.
- Jester Families eXchange Newsletter Issue 1 Aug 1989
- Jester Families eXchange Newsletter Issue 2 Nov 1989
- Jester Families eXchange Newsletter Issue 3 Feb 1990
- Jester Families eXchange Newsletter Issue 4 May 1990
- Jester Families eXchange Newsletter Issue 5 Aug 1990
- Jester Families eXchange Newsletter Issue 6 Nov 1990
- Jester Families eXchange Newsletter Issue 7 Mar 1991
- Jester Family Reunion 1928
- Jester Switch, Texas
Sources
Acknowledgments
A special thanks is deservedly and gratefully given
For Paula J for originally creating this page, which was something I have wanted since I joined Wikitree, the stylized J emblem, and more things then I can list. Paula set this up and left it for me and other Jesters to fill.
For Drew Teague for his splendid editing and polishing of The Jester history. Without his generosity of time and discusssions this history might not have been published and certainly not as beautifully laid out and easy to read as it is. I truly cannot thank him enough. And for letting me copy his Goals!!
Thank you both for helping make my Genealogy Dreams come to light to be shared.
