Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, JAMES IFANO (1865 - 1955), librarian and bibliographer of his age, was truly remarkable. He was twice married: (1) to Nellie George, daughter of Thomas George, ' fineworker ', 20 January 1901 at Neath registry office. She died in 1911; (2) to Jessie Mary, second daughter of Thomas and Mary Charles, Havod House, Blaenavon, who died 9 June 1953. He died in his home in Penarth, 7 March 1955.
JONES, JAMES RHYS (KILSBY; 1813 - 1889), Congregational minister Born 4 February 1813 at Pen-lan, Llandovery, son of the Rev. Rhys Jones, Ffaldybrenin. At the age of 15 he went to Neuadd-lwyd Academy (near Aberayron), where he remained for two or three years. After a short period in a college at Blackburn he kept school at Ffaldybrenin, 1833-4. He then went to Carmarthen Academy, 1835-8. Afterwards he ministered at Machynlleth (for about six months), Frampton
JONES, JENKIN (d. 1689) Kilgerran, captain in the Parliamentary army, Puritan preacher, Independent will, dated 2 January 1688/9 - it was proved at Carmarthen on 25 June - proves that he was a man of considerable substance: he kept four yoke of oxen, more than twenty horses, and was possessed of much landed property in the counties of Pembroke and Carmarthen. The overseers of his will were Stephen Hughes and John Evans of Trefenty in Abercywyn, high sheriff of Carmarthen in 1687-8; the first
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 (Tegid, Ioan Tegid; 1792 - 1852), cleric and man of letters the 'Welsh MSS. Society.' By all accounts, he was an exceptionally kindly and likeable man. He died 2 May 1852, and was buried at Nevern.
JONES, JOHN (1796 - 1857), Calvinistic Methodist minister, a celebrated and unusually forceful preacher . Before the end of his life, i.e. in 1850-2, he and others had bought the 'Dorothea' quarry in the Tal-y-sarn neighbourhood. In 1824 he was admitted a member of the North Wales C.M. Association, and in 1829 was ordained; thereafter, he was in the field for twenty-eight years, one of the most powerful preachers ever known in Wales. He is said to have introduced a new style of preaching - a style which
JONES, JOHN (Poet Jones; 1788 - 1858), spinner, sailor and poet Born at Llanasa, Flintshire. At 8 years old, he worked in a cotton-mill at Holywell. About 1804 he went to sea; was serving in the Royal Navy in 1805, and remained in it till 1814; he read much while at sea. He then returned to the Holywell mill, but removed in 1820 to a factory at Stalybridge. There, he eked out his scanty wage by printing edifying verse (in English), such as metrical
JONES, JOHN Maes-y-garnedd,, 'the regicide' John Done; by 1639 he was in employ of Sir Hugh Myddelton's son Sir William. He had a good education, including a competent knowledge of Latin and probably some legal training, though the terms in which he declined a legal commission (2 April 1642) from Sir Owen Wynn of Gwydir suggest that he had not fully qualified. He married, before 1639, Margaret, daughter of John Edwards of Stansty, settling on
JONES, JOHN (1650 - 1727), dean of Bangor, educationist, and antiquary Born at Plas Gwyn, Pentraeth, Anglesey, 2 June 1650, son of Rowland Jones and Margaret, daughter of John Williams of Chwaen Issa, Llantrisant, Anglesey. His brother's grandchild married Paul Panton, the antiquary. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A., 1668, and later B.D. and D.D., 1689, he took holy orders and was preferred in 1672 to Rhoscolyn and its chapelries of
JONES, JOHN (1700 - 1770), cleric and controversialist Practice. He died 8 August 1770.
JONES, JOHN (Shoni Sguborfawr; c.1810 - 1867), Rebecca rioter authorities the names of several of his associates. 'Shoni' was removed from Carmarthen gaol on 5 February 1844 to the Millbank penitentiary, in the company of David Davies 'Dai'r Cantwr' (1812? - 1874). He was then separated from 'Dai', and embarked on the Blundell on 8 March, reaching Norfolk Island, a probationary station for convicts, on 6 July. Here he remained until he was transferred to Van Diemen's
JONES, JOHN (1837 - 1906), minister (Presb.) and writer Born December 1837, son of George Jones, Abercin (Abercain), Llanystumdwy, Caernarfonshire, see Caernarvonshire Historical Society Transactions, 1945, 46-8, 54, and the chart in J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 211 (although this particular branch of the pedigree is not included in it). He served in drapers' shops in Caernarfon and London, but he began to preach and went to Bala College in 1861. He was

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