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Offline Snowball136

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Pre-1837 JONES!
« on: Saturday 20 June 15 10:49 BST (UK) »
Hello Everyone

My father's side were from USK, Monmouthshire, and I found his father, Allen JONES, his grandfather, Alexander John Jones (1866), his great grandfather John Jones (b 1828), and at least the name of John Jones' father (James JONES b 1798)

James, John, Alexander were all carpenters. (James also was undertaker and coffin-maker and may well have been a murderer who got away with it!)

My question is, when you search pre-1837 and come up with a number of possible marriages, births, parents, etc, how can you eliminate the wrong ones and zoom in on the correct ones?


Thanks all!

Offline MissBea

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Re: Pre-1837 JONES!
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 30 June 15 00:32 BST (UK) »
I look at the names, as a lot of times the children will be named for parents and grandparents.
C. Antrim/Ireland - McKillen, Kane, O'Kane, O'Neil, Coyle, Mallin, Donnelly, McMullen,
Scotland - Barnes, McKillen, Kean, Ross, Steel
England - Beards, Edwards, Clarke, Chinn, Chatham, McKillen, Bruton, Insull, Morgan, Tipple, Jarvis, Burgess, Hall, Walker, Swain, Morris, Kean, Kingett, Davies, Ryder.

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Re: Pre-1837 JONES!
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 30 June 15 09:26 BST (UK) »
You might find the digitised wills helpful. There are 41 for Joneses in Usk parish.

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