The family are in Lacey Green, Pownall Fee (nr Wilmslow) Cheshire in 1841 and in Newbridge Lane Stockport (Portwood) in 1851 where they stayed in 1861 until William Jones died.
William Jones was the son of Thomas Jones and Esther Barlow and Mary Ardern is believed to have been the daughter of Robert Ardern who died in 1806.
William and Mary Jones had six children: Ruth, Enos, John, Harriet, Ann, Helena. Ruth died as an infant. There are parish records for Ruth, Enos and John's baptisms in the Wilmslow Wesleyan Methodist church but the three girls were all born after 1837 and the parish records do not extend that far. According to the first two baptisms for 1831 and 1834 the family were living in Morley near Wilmslow.
No prior marriage record that could be attributed to William or Mary had been found. Mary was an annuitant after William's death and I looked to see if he had a military record prior to marriage but he was born in 1807 and Ruth was born in 1831, so he was 24 when she was born. If he was not supposed to enlist until 18 this would have given him only 5 years service from 1825 to 1830. I could not find a conclusive military record for him.
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