Bradshaw & Jones tracing

[rosie99]

This looks like John in 1850
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01i21/

John L Jones      M   36   Wales
Mary Jones      F   34   Wales
Mary A Jones      F   1   Pennsylvania

[Patricia Short]

That looks interesting, it sure looks like it could be them. The birth year is about right for Mary A

[arthurk]

Oswestry is very close to the England-Wales border. It's not impossible that someone born just on the Welsh side might have said they came from Oswestry because it's the nearest town of any size or importance. (These days the Welsh are perhaps keener to maintain the difference.)

Arthur

[rosie99]

Where does the information that Mary's maiden name was Bradshaw come from.

[Patricia Short]

Ah thanks for that Arthur, our borders in Wales have changed through the decades to now quite a lot. Rosie the Bradshaw surname came from when her mother married a John Bradshaw.

[rosie99]

Rosie the Bradshaw surname came from when her mother married a John Bradshaw.

I thought we were now temporarily discounting the Walesby baptism as it is in Lincolnshire and not Wales where Mary Jones was born. 

To establish what the maiden name of Mary Jones (John L's wife) is we need one of their childs birth certificate or maybe Marys death cert if American certificates have maiden names on them.  I don't know what info American records have. 

[Patricia Short]

I could ask the cousin if he has or anyone of his cousins have any certificates of Mary's like marriages, birth certificates, or birth certificates of her children.

[rosie99]

It is worth a try.  I don't know what information US certificates have.   

Annoyingly the will which he signed with a cross only gave his middle name as an initial.

Rosie

[Patricia Short]

It is worth a try.  I don't know what information US certificates have.   

Annoyingly the will which he signed with a cross only gave his middle name as an initial.

Rosie

I'm going to give it a bash for their children birth certificates, as no one has any of their ancestors certificates, etc. Fingers crossing that Mary maiden name be on there, but can only try and see. And that is annoying that he signed it with middle name initial arrrgh!!