When Mary Ann Jones was born in 1879, in Winslow, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Jones, was 31 and her mother, Mary Ann Rivers, was 27. She lived in Worcester, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom for about 20 years.
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School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
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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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