Jones

Jones family page

Ada Evangeline Hocquard, nee Jones

Record Search

Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Jones family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Jones, or for any other family name, just click below on the first letter of the
family name you are interested in. This will open a new tab in your browser giving you a list of family names beginning with that letter,
for which there are baptism records in our database of half a million church and public registry records.

You can also select marriages or burials. Select the name you want
and when the list of records is displayed you can easily refine the search, choosing a single parish, given name(s) and/or start and end dates.

The records are displayed 30 to a page, but by selecting the yellow Wiki Table option at the top left of the page you can open a full, scrollable list. This list will either be displayed in a new tab or a pop-up window. You may have to edit the settings of your browser to allow pop-up windows for www.jerripediabmd.net. For the small number of family names for which a search generates more than 1,500 records you will have to refine your search (perhaps using start or end dates) to reduce the number of records found.

New records

From August 2020 we have started adding records from non-Anglican churches, and this process will continue as more records, held by Jersey Archive, are digitised and indexed. Our database now includes buttons enabling a search within registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These records will automatically appear within the results of any search made from this page.

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Origins of surname

Ten per cent of Welsh people are called Jones, as are usually several members of their Rugby Union XV, but the name is of English origin, and can ultimately be traced back to John and Joan, derived from Johan and Johanna. The French equivalent of the very popular Christian name John is Jean, derived from the Germanic Jehan.

Early records

The surname first made an appearance in Jersey church registers towards the end of the 17th century, several soldiers of that name in the island garrison marrying local girls. The first was Thomas Jones, who married Rachel Le Brun in 1671. He was probably from England, but those responsible for maintaining the records made no distinction at that time between immigrants from England, Wales and Scotland.

Despite the existence of over 250 Jones baptism and birth records in our database, it has so far proved nigh impossible to assemble more than a couple of meaningful family trees. The situation is not helped by William Henrys becoming Henry Williams between baptism and marriage records, and the absence online of any trees covering more than two generations, with significant numbers of Jones family members born in the island.

Variants

• Jones

Family records

Family trees

• Descendants of John Jones Added 2021
• Descendants of Evan Jones Added 2023

Church records

Tips for using these links

• Jones baptisms in Jersey
• Jones marriages in Jersey (groom)
• Jones marriages in Jersey (bride)
• Jones burials in Jersey

Great War service

• Jones family members who served in World War 1

Family wills

• Jones family wills from 1663 to 1980 held by Jersey Archive

• Jones burial records 1820-1978

Family Properties

• Le Bocage House, Longueville, Grouville

Family businesses

• William Jones was a linen draper at 72 King Street in the 1860s

Family album

Arthur Jones (right) at Portelet in 1878, with a friend. Arthur was an early boyfriend of Lillie Langtry

Newspaper report of the shipwreck survived by Capt Walter Mauger Jones. An Old Victorian, he was master of the schooner Miown, which was wrecked in a severe storm off Shoreham on 14 February 1914 while bound from London to Bristol with a cargo of cement. His eight crew members drowned and he only survived by clinging to the vessel's mast through the night, to be rescued in a very distressed state the following morning

Family gravestones

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Tips

The church record links above will open in a new tab in your browser and generate the most up-to-date list of each set of records from our database. These lists replace earlier Family page baptism lists, which were not regularly updated. They have the added advantage that they produce a chronological listing for the family name in all parishes, so you do not have to search through A-Z indexes, parish by parish.

We have included some important spelling variants on some family pages, but it may be worth searching for records for a different spelling variant. Think of searching for variants with or without a prefix, such as Le or De. To search for further variants, or for any other family name, just click on the appropriate link below for the first letter of the family name, and a new tab will open, giving you the option to choose baptism, marriage or burial records. You will then see a list of available names for that type of record and you can select any name from that list. That will display all records of the chosen type for that family name, and you can narrow the search by adding a given name, selecting a parish or setting start and end dates in the form you will see above. You can also change the family name, or search for a partial name if you are not certain of the spelling

The records are displayed 30 to a page, but by selecting the yellow Wiki Table option at the top left of the page you can open a full, scrollable list. This list will either be displayed in a new tab or a pop-up window. You may have to edit the settings of your browser to allow pop-up windows for www.jerripediabmd.net. For the small number of family names for which a search generates more than 1,500 records you will have to refine your search (perhaps using start or end dates) to reduce the number of records found.

New records

Since August 2020 we have added several thousand new records from the registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These will appear in date order within a general search of the records and are also individually searchable within the database search form