I've heard the poem many times before, but I never tire of hearing it, perhaps because I have found no less than five separate JONES surnames in my family tree. Believe me, I understand the difficulty of tracking them. Gayle Thorpe Baar Irving, Texas Researching: Colonial America: Backus, Baker, Bridge, Culver, Davis, Easton, Evans, Fairbanks, Fisher, Gay, Hall, Hughes, Lee, Payne, Pettebone, Read, Stephens, Swetland, Tiffany, Whitaker, Woodruff England: Gibbons, Morrell, Thorpe Ireland: Ladburner, Hutton, Ignew, Miller, Starkey, Scotland: Anderson, Arnott, Mackie, Watson Wales: Davies, Evans, Harris, Hughes, Jones, Williams, Lackawanna County, PA: Harris, Jones, Mackie, Morrell, Thorpe Luzerne County, PA: Gay, Hughes, Pettibone, Swetland