The personal name John, ultimately from the Hebrew "Yochanan" meaning "Jehovah has favoured me with a son ", has always enjoyed enormous popularity in Europe, and particularly so after the famous Crusades of the 12th century. The name, which is found in some four hundred spellings, is in honour of St. John the Baptist, the precursor of Christ.
Michael Jones, a Congregational minister from Bala in north Wales, was the prime mover behind the Welsh colonization of Patagonia. While many Welsh communities in the U. Jones realized that the cultural identity of these emigrants would be diluted over time. The answer he proposed was an entirely Welsh settlement Wladfa free of external control.
After considering numerous locations, including Palestine, a tract of one hundred square miles in the Chubut region of Patagonia was chosen and the agreement of the Argentine government secured. Some say he had combed the earth for a stretch of open country that was uncontaminated by Englishness. He chose Patagonia for its absolute remoteness and its foul climate. Lwyd settled in Patagonia but was shot by bandits there in Michael Jones himself visited Patagonia only once, in While it is fair to say that his vision for a New Wales was not completely fulfilled, this remarkable region continues to bear unmistakable traces of Welshness.
Keeping Up With the Joneses. The strip dealt with the tribulations of modern American life and, although the Joneses in the story are never seen, they are constantly alluded to. In the 20th century Jones became the perfect surname not for dullness but for adventure. In these names Jones acts as the solid straight man to the riotous first name, a mellifluous buddy riding shotgun on the appellation stagecoach. Hereditary surnames in Wales were a postth century development.
The system worked well in what was still mainly an oral culture. Return to Main Page. Click here to cancel reply. Name required. Email will not be published required. The surname Jones is a patronymic son of name from Jon or John. Jones surname origin.
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Jones Surname Ancestry Wales. The list below gives a sampling of these Joneses from the 18th century onwards: Colonel Philip Jones prospered as a Parliamentarian under Cromwell and acquired the Fonmon castle estate in Glamorgan in It stayed with his family until the late 19th century.
David Jones started a bank in Llandovery in Richard Jones, born around , was a coal miner in the Taibach area of Glamorgan, as were many of his sons and grandsons. He was a barber, although other relatives were coal miners. But some of the other Jones arrivals from America had no Welsh blood in them at all. The name was widely spread by that time. The vessel came up the Schuylkill river as far as possible, at which point the passengers disembarked and walked to Pencoyd, They later wrote home to their friends expounding on the natural resources of their new homeland.
Appreciate any help. Lorrey Talley Lkarabaich hotmail. Jones Names. References and Sources: 1. The Origin of English Surnames by P. Reaney 2. Stephen Jones, b. Retrieved 3rd May James Jones, b. Lillie Jones, b. Cecil Jones, b. Digital Products on Checkout, all other products filled in 1 business day. Wishlist To Cart Details. Some of the first settlers of this family name were: Jones Settlers in Canada in the 18th Century Mr. Ebenezer Jones Jr.
Genealogical Publishing Co. Originally published as; United Empire Loyalists. The Centennial of the Settlement of Upper Canada. Rose Publishing Company, John Jones U. Garret Jones U. Thomas Jones U. Hannah Jones U. Jones Settlers in Canada in the 19th Century Ty. Emigration to Australia followed the First Fleets of convicts, tradespeople and early settlers.
Emigration to New Zealand followed in the footsteps of the European explorers, such as Captain Cook : first came sealers, whalers, missionaries, and traders. By , the British New Zealand Company had begun buying land from the Maori tribes, and selling it to settlers, and, after the Treaty of Waitangi in , many British families set out on the arduous six month journey from Britain to Aotearoa to start a new life. Waimana" in The British first settled the British West Indies around They made many attempts but failed in some to establish settlements on the Islands including Saint Lucia and Grenada.
By they had managed to establish settlements on St. Kitts St. Christopher and Barbados, but by the Spanish had moved in and destroyed some of these including those at Providence Island. By the 's many of the islands became independent after the West Indies Federation which existed from to failed due to internal political conflicts.
After this a number of Eastern Caribbean islands formed a free association. Richard Jones, b. Kitts on 5th January Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about , passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Edward Jones, b.
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