When Sarah Jones was born in 1849, in Silverdale, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Joseph Edward Jones, was 22 and her mother, Ann Lawton, was 20. She married Stanley Wilkinson in 1865, in Silverdale, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Knutton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and Heaton Norris, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1891. She died on 22 June 1891, in Stockport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 42, and was buried in St Paul's Church, Stockport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom.
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When the Industrial Revolution hit Lancashire, cotton mills started spring up everywhere. This helped the cotton industry to start booming even moreso in Lancashire.
The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
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.
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.
Possible Related NamesIn about 1990 Barbara Gordon (Brierley) was doing research on her family line. Her Mother was Sarah Ann Brierley (Longton) and Sarah Ann's Father was James Longton, and mother was Lavina Longton (Jon …
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