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JONES, JOHN Maes-y-garnedd,, 'the regicide' John Jones (1597? - 1660), ' the regicide,' was a younger son of Thomas Jones, Maes-y-garnedd, Merionethshire, lineal descendant of Ynyr Vychan (lord of Nannau and ancestor of the family of Nannau, through a younger son who was also ancestor of the Vaughan family of Hengwrt. His mother was Elin, daughter of Robert Wynn of Taltreuddyn, Llanenddwyn, Meironnydd, descended on her mother's side from
JONES, JOHN (1790 - 1855), printer and publisher hands of his family (trading at 18, Tithebarn Street); in 1850 appeared Cofiant y Parchedig John Elias o Fon, which Jones wrote in conjunction with his friend, the Rev. John Roberts of Liverpool (1808 - 1880), better known under his pen-name Minimus. Jones, who had latterly lived in Melville Place, died suddenly (in the train, on his way home from a preaching engagement), 8 January 1855. Yr Amserau
JONES, JOHN DANIEL (1865 - 1942), Congregational minister Born at Ruthin 13 April 1865, son of Joseph David Jones, schoolmaster and musician; his mother was Catherine, daughter of Owen Daniel, Caethle, Tywyn, Meironnydd, farmer. Owen D. Jones, head of an insurance firm, Sir Henry Haydn Jones, M.P. for Merioneth, and the Rev. D. Lincoln Jones were his brothers. Upon the father's death in 1870 the family went to live at Tywyn where he had at one time been
JONES, JOHN EMRYS (1914 - 1991), secretary and organiser of Labour Party Wales daughter of T. Davies, a newsagent at Cardiff Road, Aberaman, Aberdare, and they had one daughter Maureen. The family lived at 4 Glancynon Terrace, Aberaman from 1936 until 1942. During his period of service to the Labour Party in Wales, he lived at Caerphilly, and on his retirement moved to Hanham in Bristol, an area which he knew very well since he had served there for the Labour Party in the 1950s. On
JONES, JOHN HENRY (1909 - 1985), educationist and translator .1628), the Latin epigrammatist who belonged to the family of Plas Du, Eifionydd, and published a number of pioneering articles on him, in Welsh and English, between 1938 and 1941. In 1941, however, his career in Swansea was interrupted by the demands of the Second World War and he was summoned, like many other academics, to join (under the aegis of the Foreign Office) the select band, in Bedford and
JONES, JOHN MORGAN (1838 - 1921), Calvinistic Methodist minster Born 15 July 1838 at Llanddewibrefi, Cardiganshire. His family moved to Dowlais, and after working there as a carpenter, he entered the ministry (1864). He was educated at Trevecka College (1866-9), ordained in 1870, and ministered in turn to churches at Deri (1869), Ystalyfera (1871), Treforest (1873), and Pembroke Terrace, Cardiff (1875-1912). For the last fourteen years of his life he was
JONES, JOHN OWEN (Ap Ffarmwr; 1861 - 1899), journalist Son of Owen and Emma Jones; born at Ty'n y Morfa, Trefdraeth, Anglesey, 1 January 1861. Following his father's death and his mother's second marriage, the family removed to Cae'r Llechau, Dwyran (about 1865). Educated at the Board school, Dwyran, he was apprenticed at 14 as a draper to Lewis Lewis, Caernarvon. During this period he read widely in the works of authors like Darwin, Huxley, Ruskin
JONES, JOHN OWEN (OWEN BRYNGWYN; 1884 - 1972), singer Born 7 February 1884 at Llangwm, Denbighshire, son of Owen Jones, a carpenter on the Garthmeilo estate, Llangwm, and Esther Margaret (née Roberts), only daughter of Ellis Roberts ('Elis Wyn o Wyrfai'). The family moved to Llanegryn, Meirionnydd, in 1890 when the father was appointed agent to the Peniarth estate, a post he held for 32 years. His was a musical family. His father (died 1922) was the
JONES, JOHN PULESTON (1862 - 1925), Calvinistic Methodist minister, writer, and theologian Born at Berth, Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd, 26 February 1862, son of Evan Jones, carpenter and builder, and Mary Ann Puleston (Mair Clwyd), sister of Sir John Puleston. The family moved to Bala, and when the boy was 18 months old he met with an accident which resulted in total blindness. His mother set to work and taught him to do everything possible for himself without expecting, or getting, help
JONES, JOHN RICE (1759 - 1824), lawyer and settler in the American mid-west was the eldest of fourteen children of John Jones, excise officer, Mallwyd, Meironnydd, born in February 1759. Family tradition attributes to him an Oxford education, but this is unconfirmed. In January 1781 he married, at Brecon, Eliza, daughter of Richard and Mary Powell of that town, where he was in practice as a solicitor in 1782, with London chambers in Thanet Place, Strand. In 1784 he
JONES, JOHN WILLIAM (1868 - 1945), builder built Garth Drive in Allerton where he lived for years with his family at no. 10, a house that he called Hiraethog. He built a road connecting Garth Drive and called it Tanat Drive as a tribute to his wife who hailed from the valley of that name in Montgomeryshire. His firm was given the contract in 1923 to repair and maintain all the public buildings in Liverpool under the jurisdiction of the
JONES, JOSEPH (1877 - 1950), principal of the Memorial College, Brecon Born 7 August 1877 at Fronfelen, Rhydlewis, Cardiganshire, the son of Reuben and Jane Jones. The family moved in March 1882 to Cwmaman, Aberdare, and joined the Congregational church at Moriah Aman. His father lost his life in the colliery when he was 35 years old and, as a result, his mother ventured to manage a milk business and Joseph, the 12 year old son, was obliged, very reluctantly, to

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