When Robert Jones was born on 30 August 1709, in Merion Station, Lower Merion Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Robert Jones Sr., was 39 and his mother, Ellen Jones, was 33. He married Margaret Knowles about 1726, in Merion Township, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 21 March 1770, in his hometown, at the age of 60, and was buried in Merion Friends Burial Ground, Merion Station, Lower Merion Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States.
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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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