When Mary Jones was born about 1804, in Llandefeilog, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, Jno. Jones, was 28 and her mother, Rachel, was 20. She married George Jones on 14 October 1825, in Llangendeirne, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in St Peter Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom in 1851. She died on 17 October 1846, in Llandefeilog, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom, at the age of 43.
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France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
The United States purchased all the Louisiana territory (828,000 sq. mi) from France, only paying 15 million dollars (A quarter trillion today) for the land. In the purchase, the US obtained the land that makes up 15 US states and 2 Canadian Provinces. The United States originally wanted to purchase of New Orleans and the lands located on the coast around it, but quickly accepted the bargain that Napoleon Bonaparte offered.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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