When Edward Fraser Jones was born in June 1843, in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Sylvester Frazer Jones, was 39 and his mother, Jane Dyson, was 37. He married Sarah Rebecca Wright on 23 March 1866, in Auckland, New Zealand. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Wellington South Electorate, Wellington, New Zealand in 1853 and Wellington, New Zealand for about 26 years. He died on 6 October 1929, in Shannon, Horowhenua, New Zealand, at the age of 86, and was buried in Shannon Cemetery, Shannon, Horowhenua, New Zealand.
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The New Zealand Wars, also referred to as the Land Wars. Maori put up resistance to British colonial rule.
The Lendal Bridge was opened in 1863, after a previous failed attempt at building it Thomas Page was brought in to design it. It is an iron bridge styled with the gothic style popular in England. When it was first opened, it was a toll bridge but in 1894, it accepted it’s last toll.
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
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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