Jones family

[Balnacree]

I am trying to locate a book written by Randall Jones from, Ulsterville Park, Portadown on the Jones family Tree, when two Jones brothers arrived in Scarva from Wales in the 1650's.

 I have copy of the Portadown Times dated November 25 1994, When Randall and his wife produced the book of the family tree for Jones back to Scarva in 1649.

I have been unable to get the name of the book or find it in the library.

Any information would be much appreciated

[Sheilings2]

Hi i have been searching for jones in armagh for years and would appreciate any leads you might have or get from your post re the book,  there is another old book by robert leach on the history of the jones family in ireland published in yonkers new york it seems to be in some archives but i haven't been able to find anything. good luck with your search i will advise if i find anything more.

[Balnacree]

My Jones came from Wales in the mid 1600's and settled in Scarva Co down.  Do you have any names for the Jones you are looking.

Will be pleased to share any information I have

elizabeth

[Sheilings2]

Hi Elizabeth,
Thanks for your reply. All the information that I have is the names of the family that left Armagh in 1824. I have located them on a passenger list but the trail ends there at the moment. Their names were : Robert Jones, wife Mary Bell Jones and 9 of their 11 children. The 2 eldest sons came earlier to Canada and settled in Prince Edward County, Ontario. The family have lots of information from that point on, but it would be very interesting to learn more about the Irish background. The only other things I recall was that Robert gave up a life lease on his farm in order to emigrate and the family had at some earlier point in history had their property confiscated for refusing to give up the old religion. All this is anectdotal of course and subject to the variables of human memory. I think that the family of Mary Bell would have been from the Scottish plantation, but have no idea when. I have looked under the gaelic spelling of the name Jones also and have been searching by trying to correlate community farm groupings where both names appear. It may be totally futile but guess I enjoy the process of the hunt. I would be interested in seeing your information if you think it could be a connection.  I do have a photograph of Robert & Mary. Cheers

[Balnacree]

I know that my Jones came with the Plantation from Wales.

Do you know what part of Co Armagh they came from.  The Jones I have were based aroung Scarva, Drumillar and Auglish.

If you can give me any more information, I will check it against my records.

Regards

elizabeth

[Sheilings2]

Hello Elizabeth, I am so excited I have been looking for the Robin Leech (Jones) book for years and found it today! It may have the answers you are looking for also. I have had a rushed look through it  as it can be either downloaded or read on line,but don't have any connections as yet. The identifier access is:  http://www.archive.org/details/jonesfamilyinire00leecark:/13960/t9571v53n

It is sponsored by the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center (American spelling)

Hope you find this useful. Look forward to hearing from you again. Happy hunting. S

[Balnacree]

This looks very interesting.  I have been told that they can will Cromwell it would be nice to think this this was them.

Have you been able to print it?

Thanks for finding this.

There is another book written by someone in Portadown, Co Armagh about the Jones, but I am still trying to locate.

Will keep searching.

regards

elizabeth

[stepleen]

Randall Jones was my father my parents did work on family tree but didn't write a book on it they had a book of documents and old photos that accompanies the family tree

[Lilydale]

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.

I am also interested im
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.