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Surnames: Jones
Submitted by: D'Onne Smith Jones
Origin of jones, Meaning of jones
Origin: This name, of Welsh origin, originally meant son of John, being precisely equivalent to the name, also of very frequent occurrence, Johnson. The common use of John as a Christian name explains the great frequency with which its derivative, Jones, is found as a surname. The present family has long been settled in what is now West Virginia. It will be noted that Lyle Laughlin Jones, of Parkersburg, is descended also from the Pierpont family, which has borne so great a part in the making of the history of West Virginia. It is unfortunate that the exact connection of the West Virginia Pierponts with the great English and New England family is not known: this family is remarkable for the number of persons of great distinction in many fields. religious, diplomatic, financial, political, and others, descended from it, and the West Virginia Pierponts have been true to the character of the family. Records pertaining to the history of the West Virginian Pierponts are said to have been lost in the civil war, so it is to be feared that the full ancestral connection with the New England and Norman stock will never be elucidated.
Surnames: Jones
Submitted by: History of West Virginia
Origin of jones, Meaning of jones
Origin: The modernizing of the surname John, which anciently was pronounced with the "o" long as in Jone, into Jones, is a transition quite familiar to genealogists. Thus, ap. John, ap. Johns, ap. Jones, Jones.
Welsh John, succeeding Welch John, and being called John's son, until in the course of time the name narrowed down into that of Jones and the first of the family who emigrated to America was Captain Christopher Jones, commander of the "Mayflower" (1620)-a trading man in the colony of the Pilgrim fathers and a "convinced friend" and subsequently, when the Pilgrims and Puritan colonies were in a prosperous condition, families by the name of Jones settled in America.
The surname Jones ranks first in number among the family names of Wales; one Welch man in seven bearing the name. In England it holds second place.
Being of patronymic derivation, it came into use as a family surname during the fifteenth century. Over fifty colonists bearing the name, progenitors of families, settled in New England before 1700; most of whom came from England, of Wales descent, settling in Massachusetts. They were very serious-minded and religious people, with whom life was a strenuous business.
Surnames: Jones, John, Johns
Submitted by: DP
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