When Joseph Jones was born on 8 June 1654, in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, John Jones, was 31 and his mother, Dorcas Busse, was 31. He married Mrs Joseph Jones about 1669, in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. He died on 2 October 1677, in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 23.
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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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