Jones

Last update: April 21st, 2014

    

photo credit: http://www.oldukphotos.com/glamorgan-nantymoel.htm


So we begin in the Rhondda Valley, a beautiful place now - I was last there in 2011 - and a beautiful place before coal was mined, according to what I've read.  By the time my grandmother was born and grew up, it was a blackened industrial place, and life was hard.  Her father worked as a carpenter for a coal mine and died when she was only 9 years old.


Esther Evans born c. 1878 Llandyfodwg (a parish of Bridgend)
                        died 1948, Nant-Y-Moel
Benjamin Jones born c. 1872 Llangeinwen (Anglesey)
                        died 1914, Nant-Y-Moel  

Esther and Benjamin marry c. Jan 1896/97 Bridgend

Children:

     Armit Thomas Jones, born 12 May, 1897; died 1979
     Idwal Jones, born 1899
     Emrys Cadifor Jones, born 1900
     Dewi, born 1901
     Aelfron Jane Jones, born 1903,                died 1995
     Mary Dilys Jones, born 1904
     Aerona Jones, born 1905
     Griselda, born 1907                                        died before 1911 census
     Aelfryn (Gwyn?)Jones, born 1908,          died 1994
     Myra Jones, born 1910
     Miriam Cranogwen Jones, born 1912
     Ralph Jones (?)
   

Esther Jones, nee Evans c. 1947

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1911 census.

David Evans: b. c 1836, St. Clears, Carmarthenshire 
Jane Evans: b. c 1835, Ystradyfodwg

Martha Evans born c. 1863, Aberdare, Glam.
Jenkin Evans born c. 1866, Aberdare, Glam.
John Evans born c. 1868, Aberdare, Glam.
Anne M. Evans born c. 1871, Aberdare, Glam.
Mary L. Evans born c. 1873, Aberdare, Glam.
Esther Evans: b. c 1879, Llandyfodwg

(listed in 1881 census living with family) John Evans, boarder, b. 1845, Marionethshire
1881 Census: address Graig, Nant-y-Moel, David Evans occupation listed as fireman





St. Clears Bethlehem Congregation - no date, but pre-1908 refurbishment.



Modern View of St. Clears Bethlehem Congregation

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[In all probability, but not confirmed.]

Thomas Jones:  b. c 1824, Llangristiolus, Anglesey
                          m. Mary
Mary: b. c 1836 Cerrigceinwen,Anglesey

Children of Thomas Jones and Mary Evans

John Jones
Margaret Jones
Mary Jones
Thomas Jones
Hannah Jones b.c. 1868 (? twin with Joseph)
Joseph Jones, b. c 1868 (? twin with Hannah)
Miriam Jones, b. c 1871
Benjamin Jones, b. c 1874
Sarah Jane Jones, b. c 1876
Ellen Jones, b. c 1879

1861 Census: Thomas & Mary lived Llangristiolus, Thomas a farm labourer
1871 Census: Thomas & Mary lived in the Gate House of the estate of William Humphrey Owen, Plas Penrhyn; Thomas listed as husbandman.
1881 Census: Lived at Refail Newydd, Thomas farmer of 10 acres of land.
1891 Census: Benjamin Jones a coal miner; lodger Ystradfyfodwg, Glam.
1901 Census: Lived Pen y Argae (sp?)  Llangeinwen, Anglesey



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