Looking for Reverend Edmund Edward Jones 1st wife maiden *COMPLETE*

[bikermickau]

I am aware that it could be either Mary.

According to a newspaper article he married Margaret Lewis nee Price at the Register Office, Cardiff.

https://newspapers.library.wales/home, Welsh Newspapers Online.
"MARRIAGE. JONES-LEWIS. —Nov. 4, at the Register Office, Cardiff, by licence, the Rev. E. E. Jones, Pencoed, to Margaret' widow of the late Thomas Lewis, Esq., Tarlan near Merthyr."
South Wales Daily News
8th November 1879 Page 2
https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3508802/3508804/6/.

I've been searching the English version of newspapers.library.wales and haven't found his 1st marriage notice.

you can't infer anything from the order of surnames for marriages on FreeBmd, it's just alphabetical. Unlikely to be a parish marriage given that he was a Baptist minister.

[Sam Swift]

ps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3200457/3200462/31/marw%20gwraig%20edmund%20j

It was Mary Lewis, daughter of Lewis James Esq and Mary his wife of Coedybrain, Monmouthshire. Became a Baptist at Argoed and then switched to the Church at Bargoed once a church was built there. Moved to Penycoed (Pencoed) after her marriage

She died 22nd Feb 1874 aged 58 and suffered or the last 10 months from rheumatic dropsy. She was conveyed by train to Bargoed where she was buried.
Does not mention any children.

[hanes teulu]

Also see Welsh Journals  https://journals.library.wales

click on link and put "mary edmund jones" (include the "   " as part of search key) in Search - returns 1 hit. Click on "No.8 Monmouthshire Bedwellty" - see family tree.

[bikermickau]

Thank you Sam Swift and hanes teulu.

I'll mark this completed.

Edited

Just located her in the "National Probate Calendar" on Ancestry, death date given there is 21 Feb 1874

Mick