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JONES, ELIZABETH MARY (Moelona; 1877 - 1953), teacher and novelist Born 21 June 1877, in Moylon, Rhydlewis, Cardiganshire, the youngest of the 13 children of John Owen (a carrier who took farm produce by horse and cart to the industrial centres of south Wales before taking the tenancy of the farm, Moylon) and Mary, daughter of Abraham Jones (who was also a carrier). One of the children died young while the parents were in the cemetery at the burial of two others
JONES, EVAN (Gwrwst ab Bleddyn Flaidd, Gwrwst; 1793 - 1855), Baptist minister and littérateur Born at Llanddoget, Denbighshire, 26 August 1793. He began to preach when he was 18 years old, and became missionary to Llŷn and Eifionydd in 1815. He was ordained at Garn Dolbenmaen, 25 November 1817, and moved in 1820 to Llangollen, in 1822 to Dolgelley, and in September 1823 to Castleton, Monmouth, where he remained until his death on 1 December 1855. In 1824 he married Mary Morgan, Maesyfelin
JONES, EVAN (TALFRYN) (1857 - 1935), Baptist minister Born 26 May 1857 at Moel-y-crio, Halkin, Flintshire, the eleventh of the twelve children of Evan and Mary Jones. His parents were Calvinistic Methodists, but the son joined the Baptist church of Ainon, Pont-y-gof, was baptized there 24 March 1872, and began preaching in 1878. He went to a school at Llangollen in 1879, and to the Baptist college there in 1880, and afterwards became minister at
JONES, EVAN (Gurnos; 1840 - 1903), Congregational and Baptist minister, poet, critic, lecturer, and eisteddfod conductor Born 14 April 1840 at Hendrelywarch (others say Penrhipyn), Gwernogle, Carmarthenshire, the son of John and Mary Jones. The family removed to Ystalyfera about 1848. Within two years his mother died, and he lost his father five years later. He was educated at a school kept by the Rev. Daniel Evans at the Plough and Harrow in Gwernogle, and at the works school at Ystalyfera. He became interested in
JONES, EZZELINA GWENHWYFAR (1921 - 2012), artist and sculptor Ezzelina Jones was born in Pontarddulais on 28 June 1921, the second of the three children of Godfrey Hugh Beddoe Williams, a doubler in the Clayton Tin Works, and his wife Elizabeth Mary Williams. She had two sisters, Elizabeth Jane (Betty) and Rita. In the early years Ezzelina was known in the family as Gwen or Gwenhwyfar. It appears that she was given the unusual name of Ezzelina in memory of
JONES, FRANCES MÔN (1919 - 2000), harpist and teacher Frances Môn Jones was born on 20 October 1919 at Broughton near Wrexham, the daughter of David Charles Davies and his wife Mary Jane (née Goodwin). She was educated at the local school and Grove Park Grammar School in Wrexham, and mastered Welsh as a schoolgirl, in spite of not hearing the language at home. She began to play the organ at Pisgah chapel in Broughton at the age of 14, but a year
JONES, GWILYM CERI (1897 - 1963), minister (Presb.) and poet , Mary Symmons, Swansea; they had a son. He died 9 January 1963 at Llansamlet. He was in great demand as an original and astute preacher until a severe illness left him with impaired speech. He then turned his creative talents to writing poetry, specialising in the strict metres and having his work published in weekly newspapers and Welsh periodicals. He competed at the national eisteddfod and won
JONES, GWILYM CLEATON (1875 - 1961) Cape Town, Johannesburg, bank manager Race Relations. He had four sisters. He married (1) Esther Anne Davies, Llandeilo; one son and four daughters were born to them. Their son died in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1941 where he was serving as a captain in the Transvaal Scottish Regiment. After his wife's death in 1940 he married (2) Mrs. Alice Lilian Williams, Johannesburg. Cleaton Jones died in Cape Town 30 September 1961 and was cremated.
JONES, GWILYM EIRWYN (EIRWYN PONTSHÂN; 1922 - 1994), carpenter, entertainer, nationalist Eirwyn Pontshân was born on 31 August 1922 at Preswylfa, Talgarreg, the son of Mary Theodosia Jones. He had a sister, Margaret Irene (Magina) Jones (later Thomas). The greatest influence on him in his childhood was his grandmother, Ruth Jones, Mynachlog. At the age of over eighty she published her autobiography, Atgofion Ruth Mynachlog (Gwasg Gomer 1939). Eirwyn left the local school at the age
JONES, HARRY LONGUEVILLE (1806 - 1870), archaeologist and educationalist Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester, revealed an interest in Wales and facility as a draughtsman that would be developed considerably over the following decades. Jones was ordained a deacon (1829) and priest (1831) in the Church of England, and briefly served as curate of Conington, Cambs., but did not seek further ecclesiastical preferment. Instead, after being obliged to resign his fellowship upon his
JONES, HUGH (1837 - 1919), Wesleyan minister and historian ), Caernarvon (1875), Chester (1878), Rhyl (1880), Liverpool (Shaw Street) (1883), Tregarth (1886), Liverpool (Mount Zion) (1887), Liverpool (Shaw Street) (1890), Tregarth (1893), Liverpool (Mount Zion) (1896), and Bangor (1899). In 1902 he was appointed superintendent of the Bookroom. He retired in 1911 and died 23 May 1919. He married Mary, daughter of the Rev. John Williams (Calvinistic Methodist) of
JONES, HUMPHREY (Bryfdir; 1867 - 1947), poet and 'compère' of eisteddfodau Born 13 December 1867, in Cwm Croesor, Merionethshire, son of John Jones a smallholder and Mary (née Roberts) and grandson of Robert Roberts of Erw Fawr who founded the Sunday school at Llanfrothen. He lived practically the whole of his life in Blaenau Ffestiniog. After leaving school at the age of 12 he became a quarryman and eventually attained an official position. He learned the rudiments of

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