Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, IEUAN SAMUEL (1918 - 2004), minister (Cong.) for his textual study of the Dead Sea Scroll of St. Mark's Monastery. He was the first person in Wales to publish articles on the Scrolls and the significance of their discovery. The family moved from Bethesda in 1955, and Ieuan became the minister of Salem, Colwyn Bay, and Deganwy Avenue, Llandudno. After two years they moved again in 1957, this time to Caernarfon, where Ieuan became the minister
JONES, IORWERTH (1913 - 1992), minister, author and editor - the free library in Brock Street, the baths in the poorest areas of the city, the films and the 'variety' and plays in the theatres, and the football in Goodison Park. His dedication to the blue shirts of Everton was constant and unyielding! By the time he reached the sixth form his mind was set on serving in the Christian Ministry. By now his family were members of Great Mersey St. Independent
JONES, JACK (1884 - 1970), author and playwright mentioned in dispatches from France and later wounded. By 1921, the birth of two more sons had completed his family. In the same year his Miners' Federation lodge at Pontypool sent him as a delegate to the formation Conference of the British Communist Party held at Manchester : there he was chosen as temporary corresponding secretary for the South Wales coalfield. For months he sought to establish a
JONES, JENKIN (d. 1689) Kilgerran, captain in the Parliamentary army, Puritan preacher, Independent of S. Mary's at Cardigan in 1702-3. Ann, the daughter of Theophilus, and the heiress of the Rhos-y-Gilwen property, married one of the Colby family, a pronounced Anglican. [See also Jenkin Jones (1623-)]
JONES, JENKIN (1700? - 1742), Arminian minister Born at Trafle, Llanwenog, Cardiganshire, in 1700 (?). The family later moved to Bryngranod which was sufficiently near Crug-y-maen to be influenced by its radical tendencies. There is an entry in the Cilgwyn church register which reads: 'Jenkin Jones of Llwynrhydowen; ordained April 1726, obiit 1742.' We know nothing of his early life except that he was at Carmarthen Academy from 1720 to 1722
JONES, JOHN (Ioan Brothen; 1868 - 1940), poet Born 10 June 1868, son of John and Jane Jones of Cae'r Gorlan, Llanfrothen, Meironnydd. The family went to live at Hafod Mynydd and it was as ' John Hafod Mynydd ' that Ioan Brothen was known to his friends. He was one of five children; his sister Meirionwen also wrote poetry. He was given a little education at the local day school, but was more grateful for the education he received at the
JONES, JOHN (1837 - 1906), minister (Presb.) and writer ordained in 1863, but apart from a short period (1872-78) when he was pastor of Capel y Graig near Bangor, he did not serve as a minister of a church. He married a daughter of David Jones, Treborth (1805 - 1868). For some years after 1878 he was manager of a private (family) bank ' Pugh, Jones & Co. ' in Bethesda, but returned to Pwllheli (where he had lived before going to Capel y Graig), and died there
JONES, JOHN (1761 - 1822), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at Tyddyn-Dafydd-Ddu, in the parish of Llandwrog, Caernarfonshire, but he was brought up in Caernarvon town until he was 17 years of age, and attended a school kept by one Thomas Brown. He was apprenticed to a barber at Mold but, after two years, returned to his family which, by this time, was living at Amlwch, Anglesey. During the course of a visit paid by David Morris (1744 - 1791) of Twr
JONES, JOHN (Idris Fychan; 1825 - 1887), shoemaker and harpist Born at Dolgelley, a member of the same family as Ellis Roberts (Eos Meirion), harpist to the Prince of Wales. His mother was considered a good singer with the harp. He went to London in 1851 but moved to Manchester in 1857. Besides being considered the best singer with the harp in his day, he was also accounted a good poet. He was awarded the prize at the Rhuddlan eisteddfod of 1850 for an essay
JONES, JOHN (Tegid, Ioan Tegid; 1792 - 1852), cleric and man of letters Born at Bala, 10 February 1792, first son and third child of Henry and Catherine Jones; according to Elizabeth Davis, the mother had a pretty large millinery business, and Tegid's prolonged sojourn at schools suggests that his family was not too badly off. He speaks of a brother, David (born 1794, a banker), a sister Elen christened 29 January 1787, and another Gwen, born 1788, who died young
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 (1820 - 1907), minister (B) and historian by John's efforts at Evenjobb in 1849. John also conducted a day school in Gladestry chapel, the salary derived from the Edward Gough charity. In 1849 he married Anne Roberts (born 1825 in Cheltenham but of a Methodist family) of Abbey Cwmhir. For a few years before her death she kept a girls' school in Kington. She and her husband had eight children, six of whom died young. John Jones held

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