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I am also interested in this Jones family. I see that there still was an Owens Jones of Picton who had a bench donated in his name for all the years that he took pride in cleaning areas within his town. I am wondering if any of that family relocated to Ops Twp, Victoria County ( now Kawartha Lakes County ), Ontario. This is the Lindsay near Peterborough, Ontario area. I found info that Twohey, Maloney and  Jones families settled in Ops Twp in 1829 on Conc 4, Lots 17, 18 and 19. I looked at some land records and can find the Maloney and Twohey but not the Jones. According to a Jones descendant on Find a Grave, the Jones family remained on the original land grant. My gg aunt Elizabeth M Hall, daughter of William Hall and Elizabeth Norris of Port Hope, Ontario, married a Robert Marshall Jones of Ops Twp. He was born around 1838 and was living in Cannington, Brock Twp, Durham County, Ontario at the time of his marriage. The marriage record listed his parents as Thomas Jones and Rebecca Martel but that is an Ancestry one and not a copy of the original. I think that Rebecca Martel may have been a Rebecca Marshall. The Ops Twp were mainly settled by Irish families and on the 1901 census, their sons listed their ethnic background as Welsh.

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n the ship records that had Robert Jones and Mary Bell with nine of their eleven children leaving County Armaugh, Ireland in 1824 for Canada. They may have been on the same ship as my gggg grandfather Michael Donnelly of County Armaugh who married a Mary Ann McMullen, Mc Millen or Mullen that also immigrated with their young son William Donnelly. They had one more child Catherine Donnelly, my ggg grandmother who married Stephen David Johns in Rochester , New York. Unfortunately , Michael Donnelly fell off of a Kingston, Ontario Church steeple in 1827 to his death. There was someone looking for a Donnelly that was from Portadown, Ireland that had lived in Kingston, Ont as well in the 1830's and this Donnelly may have been a relative of my Michael. A recent dna test on Family Tree connected to the family of Michael's son William Donnelly . William Donnelly later moved to Hastings County, Ontario, Canada where he raised his family and the very detailed obituary stated that he was from County Armaugh . It also mentioned his father dying in a contruction accident. I have been in touch with William Donnelly's descendants and we have both settled the mystery of what happened to Michael Donnelly's children.

Thanks Daisy re the Saxton, Yorkshire  baptism  for William  Hall. I highly  suspect  that is him. The Elizabeth was a guess from the naming pattern that William used for his children with his wife Elizabeth  Norris.  They had two daughters  Elizabeth, Elizabeth  M and Eliza Jane so Anne could have been Elizabeth Ann. Both daughters  lived well into adulthood so it was not like one daughter  had died young. I agree that William probably  thought  that his birthdate was that date of his actual baptism.  My cousin found a reference to Ann having another illegitimate child, I think a son, 10 years before William?. My cousin had kept in touch with an older gentleman  who lived in Saxton a while back who is now deceased.

My ggg grandfather  William Gall born 1796 was a shoemaker  when he arrived in Ontario,  Canada. He settled in Port Hope,  Ontario  by 1822. His grandfather may have been Samuel  Hall and his mother  was Elizabeth. He was Methodist. His oldest son David Hall was a tailor  born in Prince Edward County, Ontario.  The family used the names William. Henry .George and John.