When William Jones was born on 18 May 1779, in Hartford, Connecticut, United States, his father, Amasa Jones, was 52 and his mother, Hope Lord, was 43. He married Eunice Buckland on 8 October 1810, in Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Manchester, Hartford, Connecticut, United States in 1860. He died on 16 February 1865, in East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Northwest Cemetery, Manchester, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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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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