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JONES, EDWARD (Iorwerth Ceitho; 1838? - 1930), carpenter and eisteddfodwr Born c. 1838, the youngest of six children of Thomas and Eleanor Jones of Ffos-dwn, Dihewyd, Cardiganshire. When he was about 5 years old the family moved to the tenement of Bryn Haidd in Nantcwnlle. He was apprenticed as a carpenter with David Davies, Brynhyfryd, Bwlch-y-llan, who specialized in the making of threshing machines. He migrated to London to serve in a milk-walk and to tend cattle
JONES, EDWARD (1761 - 1836), poet, farmer, and schoolmaster Born at Tan-y-Waen, Prion, Llanrhaeadr Dyffryn Clwyd, Denbighshire, 19 March 1761, son of John Jones, farmer, and his wife, Ann, daughter of William Williams, Rhyd-y-Cilgwyn. When he was about a year old the family moved to Bryn-y-gwynt-isaf in the same parish. The father died when Edward was about 10 years old. He had little formal education, and that from Daniel Lloyd, Independent minister at
JONES, ELIZABETH MARY (Moelona; 1877 - 1953), teacher and novelist (1917), and in a book, Y wers olaf (1921). Several essays and stories were published while she was in Cardiff, including Teulu bach Nantoer (1913) and Bugail y Bryn (1917). In 1914 she began contributing a children's column to the weekly newspaper, Y Darian, under the editorship of J. Tywi Jones, minister of Glais, whom she married in 1917. She then took up lecturing for a while, but returned to
JONES, EVAN (Ieuan Gwynedd; 1820 - 1852), Independent minister, and journalist Born at Bryn Tynoriad near Dolgelley, 5 September 1820, one of the six children of Evan and Catherine Jones. In 1824 the family moved to Ty Croes, Bontnewydd, Dolgelley. He suffered from ill-health all his life and, because of this, his attendance at various schools at Brithdir, Rhyd-y-main, Llanfachreth, and Dolgelley between 1826 and 1836 was extremely erratic. In 1836 he was given an
JONES, EVAN KENFFIG (1863 - 1950), minister (B), social and educational reformer Born at Bryn Du, Kenfig Hill, Glamorganshire, 20 May 1863; student at the Pontypool Baptist College and University College Cardiff; he was ordained at Merthyr Vale in 1889, moved to Brymbo in 1891 and to Cefnmawr in 1913; retired in 1934. He was a zealous, uncompromising Baptist; he was secretary of the Denbigh, Flint, and Merioneth Association for years, and its president twice; president of the
JONES, GWENAN (1889 - 1971), educationalist and author supervision of Dr Carleton Brown at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania. She completed her research at Minnesota University and in 1917 was awarded a PhD for a thesis which was eventually published in 1939 as A Study of Three Medieval Welsh Religious Plays. She spent two years as an English teacher at a girls' college in Columbia Missouri before returning to Wales in 1920. She was offered a post as a lecturer
JONES, JOHN (1801 - 1856), Independent minister, and controversialist then came forward as a writer and debater on baptism; on this subject there was a public debate between him and the minister of Rhymney, which came to be known as the ' Great Debate of Rhymney.' In October 1842 he was ordained minister of the churches of Rhyd-y-bont, Capel Nonni, and Bryn-teg, Carmarthenshire. His ministry was a failure for he had no gift for this kind of work. He then started
JONES, JOHN Maes-y-garnedd,, 'the regicide' her in 1643 lands in Llanenddwyn, Llanddwywe, and Llanfair, Meironnydd, which he had acquired from Myddelton in 1633 (8 June), together with a town house (probably Bryn-y-ffynnon) in Wrexham. They lived successively at Stansty, Uchlaw'r Coed, Llanenddwyn (inherited from his father), and Plas Uchaf Eliseg, Llangollen, until, in June 1644, he was commissioned as captain in the forces raised by the
JONES, JOHN (1761 - 1822), Calvinistic Methodist minister -gwyn, to Anglesey he was convinced and in 1784 began to preach. He was a strong, powerfully built man, and his ministry was incisive and convincing. He is said to have converted 180 in the course of one meeting. When he was 35 years of age he married Mary Williams, heiress of Pen-y-bryn, Edern, where he spent the remainder of his life; he is usually known as ' John Jones of Edern.' He was ordained in
JONES, JOHN (1786 - 1865), printer and inventor Baptized 7 May 1786, son of Ismael Davies (son of Dafydd Jones, Trefriw (1708? - 1785)) and Jane, his wife. After Dafydd Jones died in 1785, Ismael Davies continued working his father's printing press at Bryn Pyll, Trefriw. According to family tradition, John Jones was apprenticed to a blacksmith, but he also learnt the printer's craft, and from 1810 onwards there is a noticeable improvement in
JONES, JOHN BOWEN (1829 - 1905), Congregational minister and writer Born 10 February 1829 in Blaenborthyn, Llanwenog, Cardiganshire. He was educated in the local schools at Capel Dewi and Waunifor and at Llandysul grammar school. He had a brilliant career (1846-51) at the Carmarthen Presbyterian College, 1846-51 - he was one of the first in Wales to take the B.A. degree of the University of London (1850). He began to preach in 1847 at Bryn-teg, where he was a
JONES, JOHN DANIEL (1865 - 1942), Congregational minister same year. In 1898 he followed J. Ossian Davies as minister of Richmond Hill Church, Bournemouth, where he remained until his retirement to Bryn Banon, near Bala. He married, (1) Emily Cunliffe, of Chorley (died 1917), and had a son, who died in Africa, and a daughter, Myfanwy, who died soon after her father, and, (2) Edith Margery Thompson, of Bournemouth, in 1933. He won for himself a remarkably

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