When Evan Jones was born in 1788, in Coity, Glamorgan, Wales, his father, Morgan Jones, was 40 and his mother, Martha Howell, was 34. He married Catherine Richards on 26 June 1819, in Colwinston, Glamorgan, Wales. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom in 1841 and Saint Donats, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom in 1851.
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)’.
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