When Moses JONES was born on 15 July 1856, in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, Moses Jones, was 37 and his mother, Ann Humphreys, was 31. He married Sarah Rees on 16 December 1883, in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He died on 1 November 1942, in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, at the age of 86.
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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.
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In 1890, President McKinley and Congress passed the McKinley Tariff, which have had direct effect on Southern Wales. All foreign exports were taxed, including tinplates from the iron and copper mines in Wales.
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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