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    1. Re: [Dyfed] [Bulk] DYFED Digest, Vol 4, Issue 242
    2. re Jones/Hole/Jenkins queries on this list. I was interested to see these as I have Susannah Jones married 1802 at St. Mary Battersea (to Philip Tirrell of Chelsea/Great Easton Leics. 53rd Regiment of Foot, Chelsea Pensioner). Susannah's birth/parents' details I have never been able to trace she was but definitely the daughter of Thomas Jones dob/place of birth not traced, recorded as Gent. of Haverfordwest, who wrote his will while living at Shut Street/Dew Street while staying with Jenkins relatives and his will proved 1829 (downloadable from National Archives & National Library of Wales) left money to his Jenkins relatives.. Susannah Tirell nee Jones died in South London 1838 and her will mentioning Long Annuity Bank of England from her father Thomas of Haverfordwest was also downloaded from the National Archives. The Jenkins family appear on various censuses at Shut Street/Dew Street Haverfordwest (also appearing in Parish Records, St.Mary Haverfordwest) and I think that the John Jenkins in Slade Lane Haverfordwest age 63 in 1881 St.Martin parish was the son of Mary and John Jenkins (carpenter/cabinet maker/proprietor of houses). On the 1841 census Dew Street John Jenkins Senior is recorded as being 53 and Mary, 60, with son/daughter John 22 and Mary 18 and an Elizabeth Lloyd shopkeeper age 74 who was also left a bequest in Thos. Jones will of 1828. I have a note of John Jenkins b/c 25 August 1818 at St.Mary Haverfordwest son of Mary and John Jenkins and they and their children John and Mary in Thomas Jones' will are recorded as niece/nephew, grand niece/nephew. I suspect in view of some other bequests in Thomas's will plus the fact that his daughter was married in Battersea that Thomas may have had a business and another address in London which I have never traced. In Thomas's will he mentions his son Hugh as deceased, Hugh's widow Ann and their two children also Hugh and Thomas, left £100 each, with no other clues so also untraced further by me. I have copies of the wills of a number of 19C Jones families living South and SouthWest London who may connect and mostly with Christian names Thomas or Mary.One particularly interesting is will of Ensign Thomas Walker Jones in 1836 thrown from his horse and killed and I traced a Bristol newspaper account of the accident. Thomas Jones Prison Governor at Haverfordwest is mentioned in a number of records but his dates seem slightly out of kilter. Such names are a nightmare to track! One of the Tirrell/Jones descendants, also a Susannah, married a James Hole in South London in 1833 and thought enough of the grandparent to name their son Thomas Jones Hole. Although Thomas Jones wrote his will at Shut Street "in knowledge of his certain death but no knowledge of the date!" on going through Haverfordwest Records office and records at NLW I have never yet found where he was buried. I have some further details of these family groups if any of the names ring anyone's bell! With thanks to all of those who help us in our researches. Betty Telford (Madley, Hereford) telfordBM@btinternet.com, telfordBM@btopenworld.com & telfordBM@yahoo.co.uk

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