When Susannah Jones was born in 1856, in Preston, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Gad Townley Jones, was 27 and her mother, Susanna Balshaw, was 26. She married William Dennison in 1880, in Preston, Lancashire, England. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1911 and Lytham, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1921. She died in 1930, in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 74.
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The Lancashire Rifle Volunteers started in the eighteenth century. Those that fought in the militia were selected by ballot. They were formed because of threat due to the Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic War.
The Bacup Natural History Society was established in 1878 in Lancashire. It holds a collection of over 4,000 photos, slides, and documents. It holds many different artifacts from military to fossils.
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
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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