Historically it has been identified that the Jessop family name originated in Yorkshire before spreading from right across England - for more information check out Jessop under Name Meanings.

Our family line is first found in the Blything Hundred of Suffolk in the late 1600early 1700's. It is most likely related to the Jessops of the Mutford Hundred, specifically Francis Jessop - a Cromwellian deputy of William Dowsing - who was living in Beccles, Suffolk in 1644. There were other Jessops were located in Suffolk from as early as 1500, but there is no clear relationship between those lines, nor is there any established relationship between the Suffolk Jessops and the Yorkshire Jessops.

The earliest confirmed member of our Jessop line is Robert Jessup of Huntingfield. However little detail is known of the line until his grandson John Jessop migrated to Australia in 1838.

The ancestral line going back 11 generations is likely

My Jaffray ancestry goes back 10 generations and biographies exist for some members as indicated by 

• Robert Jessup ~1720 - 1808 married Martha Smith - of Huntingfield
  • William Jessup 1752 - 1805 married Elizabeth Nunn - of Huntingfield
  • Samuel Jessup 1759 - 1817 married Elizabeth Calver - of Ubbeston 
  • Charles Jessup 1761 - 1843 married Elizabeth Bedingfield - of Cratfield
    • John Jessop & Jessup 1795 - 1885 married Lucy Mouser - of Cratfield and Camden
      • John Jessop & Charles Jessup 1818 - 1877 married Lucy Clutterham and Anna Maria Walker - of Gorleston and Lowestoft
      • John Jessup 1834 - 1906 married Sarah Ann Burgess - of Camden
        • John Crofton Jessop & Hannah 1861 - 1910 married Hannah Shoobridge and Ellen Shoobridge
          • Sydney Walter Jessop & 1887 - 1973 married Emily Louise McDermott
          • Walter Reginald Shoobridge 1897 - 1942 married Dorothy Clark 
            • Esmond Earl Jessop & 1915 - 2001 married Mary Agnes Darrough
              • My mother