When Lorenzo George Jones was born on 2 May 1857, in St Brides Major, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, John Prichard Jones, was 29 and his mother, Mary Bevan, was 30. He died on 5 May 1896, in Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 39, and was buried in Spanish Fork City Cemetery, Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, 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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