Jones Family History
Jones Name Meaning
English and Welsh: patronymic from the Middle English personal name
Jon(e) (see John). The surname is especially common in
Wales and southern central England. In North America this name has
absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other
languages. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Jones
Name Distribution of Jones Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Jones families
 20,070 - 40,138  6,691 - 20,069 |
 1 - 6,690  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Jones families
|
527 - 1,052 176 - 526 |
1 - 175 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Jones census records
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Jones Family Origin
Jones Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Jones Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Jones Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Jones census records
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Military Service by Jones
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