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The jones Surname

jones Name Meaning and History

English and Welsh: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John). The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. In North America this name has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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Distribution of jones Families in the US in 1920

Number of jones families

5906-11809

1969-5905

1-1968

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Thread	Author	Replies
JONES Stewart Maxwell 1916 1999	t42GreenAcres_JohnsonCoTX	0
Isaac Jones (b1803-ish) PA	Michael Gallerno	0
JONES Floyd 1914 1917	t42OldAlton_DentonCoTX	0
Harriet Jones, who md. David Harmon Coffman	Edward Skaggs	0
JONES L Doyle 1914 2000 together forever	t42GreenAcres_JohnsonCoTX	0
Jones / Tomlin - TN	jdurham23	2
Jones family history, New Brunswick and P.E.I., Canada	Jane Kotyluk	2
JONES Virgie Lee 1918 1918	t42OldAlton_DentonCoTX	0
JONES baby girl 1921 1921	t42OldAlton_DentonCoTX	0
Hugh B. Jones letters - Maryland - 1880s	familydocumentfinder	0

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