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My Jones comes from Glamorgan and my Smith from London,
not had much luck with either names it is a hard call
Jenny from New Zealand
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I have my grandparents' marriage certificate, which I call the Jones Certificate. The bride and groom were both Jones, therefore so were the fathers, as were the witnesses, and the vicar, and believe it or not the Registrar as well ???
Needless to say they were married in Wales.
Cheers Dave (Jones)
Moderator Comment: Split off from another topic on the "Surname Interests Table" board
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Well Dave, I guess it ia a million to one you would be connected to my Jones's, my grandfather was Daniel Jones married to Elizabeth William in
1903 in Penrhiwceiber, and have found no one yet connected to this family,
Good luck with yours
Jenny ( nee Jones )
PS; Having the same problem with my Smith's in London.
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I have my grandparents' marriage certificate, which I call the Jones Certificate. The bride and groom were both Jones, therefore so were the fathers, as were the witnesses, and the vicar, and believe it or not the Registrar as well ???
Needless to say they were married in Wales.
Cheers Dave (Jones)
There use to be a postal service (sadly no longer available) where you could send details of your "Welsh" ancestors, and the service provider would use a programme to compute the most likely place in Wales that two (or more) surnames would "meet" base on a database of surnames in parish registers.
The providers claimed that the service was so accurate that they could pinpoint the most likely "meeting place" even of two Jones from Wales.
If all the names on a certificate were Jones, the most likely place that the couple would have met would have been the Bala / Llanuwchllyn area of Merioneth
Shame that the database and matching programme were never put on the internet it could be very useful, at worst it would have been great fun :)
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Sounds like a great programme, however , in my case (or grandparents' case) it was north Cardiganshire - she lived in Trefeurig and he, an itinerant tailor, lived in Llancynfelin. I guess he got about a bit :)
There is a programme which uses the 1881 census to show the distribution of surnames - http://www.spatial-literacy.org/UCLnames/default.aspx - using this it shows the greatest concentraton of Jones was in the northern half of Wales. My folks just squeaked into the area!!
Cheers Dave
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Thanks Dave, What an interesting website
Jenny
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No Jones yet but I do have surname Thomas in Wales which I got stuck on early in 1800's. My main bugbears are a couple of lines in Norfolk with the surnames 'Smith' and 'Smythe'. If anyone's found why they've got different spellings, I'm all ears :D
Cheers,
Rena
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Where should I post my JONES interests if they keep jumping back and to across the Welsh / English boundary? I think two posts would defeat the object!?
Anyway here they are:
Trying to find out what happened to my grt grandfather Maurice JONES’ siblings, I know my Nan would like to know too (she’s 80 you know!)
William JONES and Sarah Jane JONES (nee VAUGHAN aka HUXLEY) issue:
Jane JONES b. c1874 Rhosnessney – have in 1881 (Wrexham) with family but not there in 1891 (Wrexham) aged c17
Wonder if she is Jane JONES who d. Sept qua 1881, Wrexham aged 8?
William Herbert JONES b. c1877 Wrexham – have in 1881 and 1891 with family but not located in 1901 – aged 24-26
Wonder is he the militia man in Beaumaris at the Prince of Wales Inn in 1901?
Charles JONES b c1878, Wrexham – have in 1881 but again not there in 1891 with family aged c13
Wonder if he is Charles JONES who d. Mar qua 1885, Wrexham aged 8?
Sarah A. JONES see post in http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,310799.msg1921207.html#msg1921207
Emily JONES b. c1881 Wrexham – not in 1881 but appears in 1891, she disappears in 1901.
Not sure if she still alive or married, too many possible results!
Phoebe JONES b c1881 – 1883 her age changes but did find her marriage in 1903, at St James, Latchford, Warrington to Ernest G. DOWNES
She is back in Wrexham on her mother’s death certificate in 1919.
Maurice JONES 1882 – 1965 m. 1904 at St Paul, Warrington and m. 1927 at St John, Earlestown, Newton-In-Makerfield
Frederick (Fred) JONES b. c1887, Wrexham – all we know is he had a small holding in Walton, Warrington.
Catherine JONES cFeb1888 – cJan 1889
Kate (Kitty) JONES b. c1890 Wrexham – have her in 1891 (Wrexham) with family and 1901 (Warrington) with family.
Hope that hasn’t confused everyone – it’s a work in progress!
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I have my grandparents' marriage certificate, which I call the Jones Certificate. The bride and groom were both Jones, therefore so were the fathers, as were the witnesses, and the vicar, and believe it or not the Registrar as well ???
Needless to say they were married in Wales.
Cheers Dave (Jones)
I thought I had it bad when a NAYLOR married a NAYLOR!
;D :o
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Hello,
Would any of you happen to have
Evan Stephens Jones, born 1851 in Radnorshire, he married Elizabeth Mary Thomas in 1876 at Pontypridd
Jenny
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Sorry too far south for mine! Happy hunting! ;)
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My Jones comes from Glamorgan and my Smith from London,
not had much luck with either names it is a hard call
Jenny from New Zealand
Hi Clare where in Glamorgan do your Jones's hail from?
Best Wishes Bethan
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Just found another JONES link (not connected to my post above) linked to my LANE ancestors:
William JONES b. c1857 Balmer Heath, Salop
m. 1883, St Paul, Warrington, Lancs
Christiana LANE b. c1860 Yorkshire
issue:
Thomas JONES b. c1881 Earlestown, Lancashire
Lizzie JONES b. c1885 Earlestown
Mary JONES b. c1887 Earlestown (may have died aged 4 in 1891)
Annie JONES b. c1887 Earlestown
Martha JONES b. c1890 Earlestown
Ethel JONES b. c1892 Earlestown
Edwin JONES b. c1894 Earlestown
Harry JONES b. c1896 Earlestown
Sarah E. JONES b. c1900 Earlestown
does it ever end?
:D :o
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Not another lot!!!!
Edith Emily PLIMMER m. 1911 to Wilfred B. JONES in West Derby, Lancashire
(Not related to the two previous posts!)
:P ::) :o ;D
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Help with the Wrexham lot - cemetery search:
http://www.wrexham.gov.uk/english/community/genealogy/cemeteries_search/CemeteriesIndexSearchForm.cfm
8)
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If you want Jones, take a look at my direct lines:
http://www.ancestral-tales.co.uk/html/family_trees.html
You can click on any of the names, except James Wilson and you'll find them aplenty :-\
I thought I only had one Jones until I started to delve. Was i glad when I got to the patronymics ;D
Gadget
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I'll keep silent from now on! Poor you. :-[ ;D
A death certificate for my possible Thomas JONES arrived today. He was only 47 and the cause was softening of the brain, paralysis 12 months certified. He died on New Years Eve 1865. A possible in-law Sarah WILLIAMS was present at the death.
Poor man, how sad.
:o :(
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Hello, My Jones are
Daniel Jones born 1818 CDG Llanddewi & married a Margaret
Evan Jones born 1851 Rhaeadr &married Elizabeth Mary Thomas
Daniel Jones born 1880 Penrhiwceiber, Glamorgan & married
Elizabeth Williams
Don't suppose any of them are yours
Jenny
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AHHH, The Joneses!
My g granny Doris Jones married a Harold Jones (Merthyr Tydfil 1927)
Her grandad, Isaac Jones married an Elizabeth Jones (Dolgelly, 1884) both fathers were called Evan Jones! :(
Isaac's father, Evan Jones married a Mary Jones (LLanfihangel y Pennant 1851)
Evan Jones's cousin Lewis Jones married an Elizabeth Jones (Dolgelly 1851)
That's just the Jones/Jones marriages. I have a few other Joneses marrying into the family too.
Boggles the brain trying to work out who is belonging to who!! ??? ??? ???
Clair,
xx
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No connection sadly!
The mind boggles with all these JONES!
Happy hunting.
:o ;D
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Groooan....'Jones' I have many.... :P ::) perhaps should start a thead about keeping up with the Davis/Davies/David as well...they have given me just as much of a run around!
Cas
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and I can't get my Roberts line back beyond 182o :'( :'( :'( :'(
Jones is easy by comparison ;D
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hello all,
I am new to this forum, and just running around reading etc.
Lol.
Well you guessed it. I am looking for Jones too.
Except my Jones (where I am up to) is from Ireland. Matilda Jones b. 1862 who married an English soldier (Lancashire) George May.
Anyone have any idea where I can start to locate Irish Jones's? I have an idea they were from the north based on family stories, but ofcourse it's not definite.
thankyou in advance.
Matilda (yes I took the name as my handle). :)
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PS: my husband is from the Thomas family. If you are related to the John Thomas line (the one who went to america in 1642) we have some info on that- the battlesex Jones....but ofcourse that's been well documented and should be easy to find.
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Hi my Jones are from Herefordshire/Monmouthshire, so any possible links get in touch please.
However there is also the one name common interest board; http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/board,151.0.html
But I just came accross a topic by Bob which has what looks like a great site for us with Jones in our trees;
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,47732.0.html
cheers,
Grothenwell
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I was initially delighted to find that my ggmother's name was Mary Clayton before she became anonymous and married David Jones. She was from Guilsfield, Montgomeryshire where there are many Claytons, so I'm no further forward, or should that be backwards.
Dave
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Hi all i am also a Jones, and boy am i having trouble finding them!
here are what i have so far.
Robert Owen Jones b1897 Blaenau Ffestiniog - moved to Leeds 1909, died 1971
Parents are Robert Owen Jones, b 1869 Mold, Flintshire, married Sarah Annie Elizabeth SMITH b 1872 Denbigshire,
Children
Dora Elizabeth, b 1895
Robert (as above)
Ada Eleanor b 1900
John Wilfred b 1902
Llewellyn Arthur and Wallace Richard twins born 1908
Robert Owen Jones b1869 parents are :
Owen Jones b 1838 Mold and Eleanor Jones b 1838 Liverpool children are :
John b 1865 Mold
Margaret b1868
William b1873
Mary Elizabeth b 1882
Owen Jones parents are
John Jones b1810 bodferin and Mary Jones b1805 Flintshire
Eleanor Jones parents are :
Owen Jones b 1810 Liverpool and Mary Jones b 1810 liverpool
if anyone thinks these may be theres too let me know!!
Weenie
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our jones lived at common, earlestown, near penkford area.
John Jones and mary Elizabeth jones from earlestown
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Still hoping to find connections to my ancestor's sister's family :-
Christiana Lane married William Jones in 1883, last known address in c1914 of 62 Clarence Street, Earlestown, Newton in Makerfield, Lancashire, England. Still don't know what happened to this branch of the family! :-/
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I'm wondering whether anyone can match or surpass the fact that I have 16 seperate Jones bloodlines?
Regards
William Russell Jones.
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I'm wondering whether anyone can match or surpass the fact that I have 16 seperate Jones bloodlines?
Regards
William Russell Jones.
At my daughter's wedding reception, my speech included the fact that it was the 4th successive generation of Jones & Jones. She married a Jones and I did the same. My wife's parents were both Jones and her mother's parents were both Jones. The generation before that was Jones and Roberts and before that it was Jones and Jones again. All documented with certificates. The principal factor here was they did not travel and the church records had all their details.