• Born: 21 August 1837, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland ²
• Christened: 10 September 1837, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland ²
• Died: 19 September 1876, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland at age 39 ^{3 4 5}
• Buried: 1876, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland ⁴

   Other names for Wilson were Wilson JAFFRAY,⁵ Welson JAFFREY and Wilson JEFFREY.

  Birth Notes

• Sept..  Wilson, daughter of John Jaffrey, weaver, Irvine, and Ann Stevenston, spouses; was born twenty-first ult., and baptized tenth instant, their third child.

  Christening Notes

Relief Congregation

  Burial Notes

Irvine Old Parish Churchyard

  Recorded Events in Her Life

• Gallery: Detail view of the bottom of the Jessie Jeffrey monument in Irvine Old Parish Churchyard in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland.

• She appeared on the 1841 Census of Scotland on 6 June 1841 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland.
  

John Jaffray    31   Ayrshire, Scotland   Cotton H L W
Ann Jaffray     30   Scotland
James Jaffray    8   Ayrshire, Scotland
Mathew Jaffray   6   Ayrshire, Scotland
Wilson Jaffray   3   Ayrshire, Scotland
John Jaffray     6 Mo   Ayrshire, Scotland

• Gallery: Detail view of the top of the Jessie Jeffrey monument in Irvine Old Parish Churchyard in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland.

• She appeared on the 1851 Census of Scotland on 30 March 1851 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland.
  
  Address:  East Back Road, Irvine, Ayrshire
  

John Jaffrey      Head   41   Irvine, Ayrshire   Hand Loom Weaver (cotton)
Ann Jaffrey       Wife   40   Glasgow, Lanark
James Jaffrey     Son    18   Irvine, Ayrshire   Hand Loom Weaver (cotton)
Matthew Jaffrey   Son    16   Irvine, Ayrshire   Hand Loom Weaver (cotton)
Welson Jaffrey    Dau    14   Irvine, Ayrshire   Pirn Winder
John M Jaffrey    Son    10   Irvine, Ayrshire   Scholar
Mary Jaffrey      Dau     7   Irvine, Ayrshire   Scholar
Janet Jaffrey     Dau   2 Mo  Irvine, Ayrshire

• She worked as a pirn winder on 30 March 1851 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland.

• Church Membership: Relief Congregation, 9 December 1857, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland. Irvine Relief Church 9th December 1857
       Being the fast day, the Session met at the close of the forenoons service, and was constituted by the Rev. James Drummond, Moderator.
       The young communicants were then admitted to the fellowship of the Church in the presence of the Session and a number of the Congregation that remained.
       The following are their names, Mary Steedman, Seagate —       Elizabeth McGregor  Friarscroft —       Wilson Jaffrey  Cotton Row —       Elizabeth Johnston  Burn Street —       Margaret Dunbar  Seagate —       Mary Jaffrey  Halfway —       Margaret McConky  Do —       Marion Miller  Fullarton Street —       Janet Grubb  Do —       Mrs. Kerr  Shore —       Ann Stevenson  Guthries —       Agnes Halbert  High Street —       Jane Aitken  East Back road —       Mrs. Thomas Grubb  Bridgegate —       William Reside  Townhead —       Robert Gunn and Mrs Robert Gunn  Quarry Lane —       and Wilson Dunlop  Paddock Lane.
       Joined by certificate, Mrs Daniel Peterson, Mrs Boyd, and Margaret Campbell, Lilias Marshall, David McCartney, John Reid and his wife Mrs John Reid.
                      Closed with prayer
                             James Drummond  Modt'r

• She appeared on the 1861 Census of Scotland on 7 April 1861 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland.
  
  Address:  Cotton Row
  

John Jaffrey     Head   52   Irvine, Ayrshire       Cotton Weaver
Ann Jaffrey      Wife   51   Glasgow, Lanarkshire   Muslin Sewer
Wilson Jaffrey   Dau    22   Irvine, Ayrshire       Muslin Sewer
John Jaffrey     Son    20   Irvine, Ayrshire       Mason
Janet Jaffrey    Dau    10   Irvine, Ayrshire       Scholar
Robert Jaffrey   Son     8   Irvine, Ayrshire       Scholar

• She worked as a muslin sewer on 7 April 1861 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland.

• She appeared on the 1871 Census of Scotland on 2 April 1871 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland.
  
  Address:  Cottage Row North Side No 9
  John Jaffrey       62   Irvine, Ayrshire   Cotton Weaver
  Ann Jaffrey       60   Glasgow, Lanarkshire
  Wilson Jaffrey       32   Irvine, Ayrshire   Winder
  Janet Jaffrey       20   Irvine, Ayrshire   Hand Sewer
  Robert Jaffrey       17   Irvine, Ayrshire   Mason

• She was buried at the Irvine Old Parish Churchyard in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland in 1876.
  
  Monumental Inscription in Old Parish Churchyard, Irvine:
  
  ERECTED
  BY
  JESSIE JEFFREY
  IN MEMORY OF HER
  FATHER
  JOHN JEFFREY
  WHO DIED 6TH APRIL
  1889
  AGED 80 YEARS
  ALSO HER MOTHER
  ANN STEVENSON
  WHO DIED 19TH JUNE 1872, AGED 62 YEARS
  ALSO HER SISTER WILSON, WHO DIED
  19TH SEPT, 1876, AGED 39 YEARS.
  AND HER BROTHER ROBERT, WHO DIED
  IN INFANCY.
  ALSO THE ABOVE JESSIE JEFFREY,
  WHO DIED 15TH MAY 1940, AGED 89 YEARS.
  
  COME UNTO ME, ALL YE THAT LABOUR AND ARE HEAVY
  LADEN, AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST
  MATTHEW 11.28