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Inigo Jones, born in London of Welsh parentage in 1573, is considered the first significant British architect of the modern era.
Edward Jones was an 18th century Welsh harpist and bard.
Davy Jones was a nickname for the devil of the sea; from which comes the expression "Davy Jones locker."
John Paul Jones, born in Scotland, was an American naval hero of the Revolutionary War.
Edward Jones, a statistician, was in 1882 the co-founder of the Dow-Jones index.
Bobby Jones was the great American amateur golfer of the 1920's.
Quincy Jones is the American jazz music impresario.
Catherine Zeta Jones is the Welsh-born actress married to Michael Douglas.
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The surname Jones is a patronymic
name from Jon or
John. John had become the most popular first name in England by
the beginning of the 14th century.
The Welsh Joneses were outnumbering the English Joneses by approximately two to one by the beginning of the 19th century. Jones today is the most common surname in Wales - roughly one in ten people in Wales are called Jones. It is to be found in both south and north Wales.
England. There were Welsh Jones in London during Elizabethan times, notably the bookseller Richard Jones and the architect Inigo Jones. It was John Jones, a Welsh Parliamentarian under Cromwell, who signed the death warrant for Charles I in London in 1649.
A Jones family in Shrewsbury prospered from the Welsh cloth trade, first through William Jones in the early 1600's and then through his son Thomas who was Shrewsbury's first mayor in 1638. A descendant was Sir Thomas Jones, Chief Justice in the 1680's.
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- UK Jones History Website. Jones UK ancestry.
- The Family of Thomas and Jemimah Jones. The Jones family of Lower Brynaman, Glamorgan.
- Jones Genealogy Site. Jones genealogy.
- Jones DNA Project. Jones DNA.
- the Jones of Llanerchrugog in Wrexham in north
Wales
- the Jones of Albemarlis in Carmarthen
- the Jones of Dol-yn-Edeirnon in Glamorgan.
The Welsh Joneses were outnumbering the English Joneses by approximately two to one by the beginning of the 19th century. Jones today is the most common surname in Wales - roughly one in ten people in Wales are called Jones. It is to be found in both south and north Wales.
England. There were Welsh Jones in London during Elizabethan times, notably the bookseller Richard Jones and the architect Inigo Jones. It was John Jones, a Welsh Parliamentarian under Cromwell, who signed the death warrant for Charles I in London in 1649.
A Jones family in Shrewsbury prospered from the Welsh cloth trade, first through William Jones in the early 1600's and then through his son Thomas who was Shrewsbury's first mayor in 1638. A descendant was Sir Thomas Jones, Chief Justice in the 1680's.
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Inigo Jones, born in London of Welsh parentage in 1573, is considered the first significant British architect of the modern era.
Edward Jones was an 18th century Welsh harpist and bard.
Davy Jones was a nickname for the devil of the sea; from which comes the expression "Davy Jones locker."
John Paul Jones, born in Scotland, was an American naval hero of the Revolutionary War.
Edward Jones, a statistician, was in 1882 the co-founder of the Dow-Jones index.
Bobby Jones was the great American amateur golfer of the 1920's.
Quincy Jones is the American jazz music impresario.
Catherine Zeta Jones is the Welsh-born actress married to Michael Douglas.
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- 578,000 in the UK (most numerous in Lancashire)
- 409,000 in America (most numerous in Texas)
- 171,000 elsewhere (most numerous in Australia)
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