When Lydia Jones was born on 16 October 1852, in Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, Richard Jones, was 34 and her mother, Elizabeth Jenkins, was 26. She married John Shelton on 26 December 1883, in Preston, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Llangeinor, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom in 1901 and Charlestown by Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1921.
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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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