When Griffith Jones was born on 16 March 1838, in Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, George Jones, was 40 and his mother, Mary Jones, was 35. He married Ann Thomas on 11 April 1863. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Rhyndwyclydach, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom in 1871. He died on 7 June 1905, in Mold, Flintshire, Wales, United Kingdom, at the age of 67.
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The Rebecca Riots were a group of protests in west Wales from 1839-1843. The people involved were mostly poor farmers, primarily men dressed as women. The group was called “Rebecca and her daughters”, a title believed to have come the book of Genesis. They mostly fought against the toll-gates. There is only record of one death during the riots: a young Sarah Williams had been warned that the rioters were coming, but upon refusing to leave, was killed.
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
The Great Reform Act of 1867 gave males the right to vote. This also helped to form the Welsh Liberal Party. It was the second of three reforms that would take place.
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)’.
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