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Mary

I believe the Edward Langford Jones you refer to is my great grandfather. He is buried in the graveyard at Mainstone Church.

He was married three times and was outlived by his third, much younger wife.

A number of his sons became successful farmers and one daughter married a farmer near Welshpool.

My grandmother was a daughter by his second marriage and was left to bring up her younger siblings after her mother died. She married at Bishops Castle and had one child, my mother.

My grandmother and grandfather lived for many years in Montgomery and we have relatives across the Welsh Marches in Powys and Shropshire. There are still many Jones and Corfields in the area farming.

My grandfather, who was a local bank manager, and my grandmother are both dead but my mother - also a Jones - is alive, well and living in Ludlow although, as a family, we lived for many years in Scotland, where my father was involved in the newspaper industry.

I would strongly recommend you visit Edenhope, which is still a working farm and sits in a beautiful valley, and Mainstone as soon as you can. The little school where my grandmother and her many brothers and sisters studies is still there but it's a private house now.

I would be delighted to tell you more about the Jones should you wish.

Very best regards

Michael