The Descendants of Thomas Jones, 1757-1829.

2. John JONES [20387] (Thomas¹) was born on 16 Jan 1790 in Llwyn-y-piod Farm Nr Llandei Carmarthenshire Wales, died on 19 Apr 1853 in Sydney Colony of New South Wales, at age 63, and was buried on 21 Apr 1853 in Camperdown Cemetary Colony of New South Wales.

General Notes: In a Document received from Pamela [Leck] Summers in March 2022, she stated that:
David Jones, already established in business in Sydney, sent for his older brother who had accountancy skills to join him in the business. They were partners for a period till they had a falling out over credit policy. John Jones with his wife, Sarah, and three children (Sarah Ann Jones aged 12, John Russell Jones aged 9 and Harriet Jones aged 6) sailed to Sydney in 1839 from Plymouth on the barque, Sesostris. John Jones' original diary describing their 139 day voyage and being met on arrival by his brother, David, is in the library of Sydney Living Museums (formerly the Historic Houses Trust) in the Mint Building in Macquarie St, Sydney. There is also a photocopy in the Mitchell Library. This link to the Sydney Living Museums catalogue shows you some pages from the diary: <http://collection.hht.net.au/firsthht/fullRecord.jsp?recnoListAttr=recnoList&recno=43558>.

• Immigration: with his Wife and 3 Children, on board the Vessel 'Sesostris' out of Plymouth, 1839, Sydney Colony of New South Wales.

John married Sarah JONES [84240] on 11 Jan 1827 in St Andrew's Holborn London England. Sarah was born on 1 Nov 1796 in London England, was baptised on 8 Mar 1797 in St Leonard's Shoreditch London England, died on 4 Aug 1889 in Burwood Colony of New South Wales, at age 92, and was buried on 6 Aug 1889 in St Stephen's.

• Death: at "Sydenham", Wentworth Road, 4 Aug 1889, Burwood Colony of New South Wales.

+ 12 F i. Sarah Ann JONES [124115] was born on 20 Oct 1827 in Hatton Gardens London England, died on 8 Jun 1910 in Summer Hill Sydney NSW Australia, at age 82, and was buried in Rookwood Cemetery Lidcombe NSW Australia.

+ 13 M ii. John Russell JONES [124118] was born on 22 Oct 1830 in Hatton Gardens London England, was baptised on 17 Jul 1831 in St Andrew's Holborn London England, died on 6 Mar 1877 in Surry Hills Sydney Colony of New South Wales, at age 46, and was buried in Mar 1877 in St Pauls' Canterbury Sydney Colony of New South Wales.

14 F iii. Harriet JONES [124120] was born on 11 Jul 1833 in Hatton Gardens London England, was baptised on 5 Aug 1834 in St Andrew's Holborn London England, and died on 20 Aug 1917 in Strathfield Sydney NSW Australia, at age 84.

General Notes: In am e-Mail received from Pamela Anne [Leck] Summers in March 2022, she included Details from and Article published in the Sydney Morning Herald on Wednesday 24 October 1917.
MISS HARRIET JONES.
On August 20 this year (1917) there passed away, at the advanced age of 84 years, a unique personality, one who had a large circle of relatives and friends in Sydney; one who, after a life of much activity, began a new work when she was 74 years of age --- Miss Harriet Jones. Mr. John Jones, her father, was a Welsh man, and family history shows that when he went to London as a lad he could not speak English. But he knew English very well when he left Plymouth with his wife and three children on May 5, 1839, in the ship Sesostris, for he kept a diary in scholarly manner, which is in the possession of Miss Robberds, his granddaughter to-day. Mr. David Jones, the father of Sir Sydney Jones, was his brother, and had preceded him to Australia. On July 11, 1839, Mr. John Jones wrote in his diary, "This is the birthday of our little girl Harriet. She is 6 years old, and she is to have the pleasure of the company of many little, fellow passengers." Harriet then was born in 1833, her sister Sarah Ann in 1827, and her brother Russell in 1830. Sarah Ann married Mr. R. W. Robberds, and both he and Mr. Russell Jones were well known solicitors. The Sesostris was four months in making the voyage. It arrived in Sydney on September 3, 1839.
Miss Harriet Jones began to teach when 16 years of age, and with her mother, who was a fluent French scholar, opened a school in Pitt-street, then a residential part of Sydney, where Anthony Hordern's shop now stands. The Misses Wilshire were among the first pupils in this school, and many wellknown people received education there. After 31 years in Pitt-Street, Miss Jones, with her mother, moved to Burwood, where she opened another school, from which she resigned in 1890. Her father had died in 1853. Retirement from school work did not mean the end of an active life, for when 74 years of age Miss Harriet Jones became interested in the erection of "The Home of Peace for the Dying" - a branch of the Church of England Deaconess Institution - and voluntarily set to work collecting for it. In 10 years she collected £1747 10s 6d. This came mostly in small sums, and meant a great deal of walking and personal effort. She sat on no committees or councils in connection with this work, but quietly went on collecting year by year. The total amount of each year was always kept a profound secret until she herself took it to the treasurer, Mr. E. H. T. Russell, when a very cordial meeting took place, for they were very good friends, and the secret was made known.
She had a very severe illness the last year of her life, but from her sick bed, through much correspondence, from her own hand, she was able to hand in £171 3s 6d. It is perhaps needless to point out that Miss Jones had a strong will, and her nephews and nieces who all attended her school in their young days held her much in awe, for she believed in discipline, but they loved her all the same, for she had a refreshing personality, with a fund of humour, rich in repartee, up till the last. She was generally the life and soul of any gathering she attended, and though continually given to good works, a merry twinkle in her eye made her very approachable to old and young alike. Quite a large circle were privileged to call her "Aunt" Harriet, besides those whose right it was. It was Miss Harriet's wish to be buried near her beloved sister in Rookwood cemetery, though her parents are buried at Newtown, and a very impressive service was conducted by the Rev. H. J. Rose, in St. Anne's Church, Strathfield. Among the many relations and friends present were six nephews, two nieces, two great nieces, and four great nephews.

• Immigration: with her Parents and Siblings, on board the Vessel 'Sesostris' out of Plymouth, 1839, Sydney Colony of New South Wales.

• Death: at "Lavicole", Woodward Avenue, 20 Aug 1917, Strathfield Sydney NSW Australia.

3. David JONES [20383] (Thomas¹) was born on 8 Mar 1793 in Llandillo Faur Carmarthenshire Wales, died on 29 Mar 1873 in Sydney Colony of New South Wales, at age 80, and was buried in Rookwood Cemetery Lidcombe Colony of New South Wales.

General Notes: The ANU [Australian National University] through its Australian Dictionary of Biography says this about David Jones:
David Jones (1793-1873), merchant, was born on 8 March 1793, the son of Thomas Jones, a farmer near Llandeilo, Wales, and his wife Nancy. His parents hoped that he would enter the church but at 15, showing little interest in farming or the ministry, he left home and was apprenticed to a grocer in Carmarthen. At 18 he was offered and accepted the management of a general store in Eglwyswrw, Pembrokeshire, where in 1813 he married Catherine Hughes, daughter of the local pastor. A year later in childbirth she and the baby died. On 10 September 1822 he married Elizabeth Williams (d.1826).

Jones then went to London and at once found work with a retailer in Oxford Street. He made several changes of employment before accepting appointment with the firm of R. N. Nicholls, Wood Street, Cheapside, where he soon rose to be a confidential assistant. In London in 1828 he married Jane Hall, the daughter of John Hall Mander of East Smithfield. The Mander family were zealous Independents and much interested in the work of the London Missionary Society, and through them David Jones made many friends among his fellow Independents. Through William Wemyss, a friend of the Manders, he met Charles Appleton, a Hobart Town businessman who had opened a store in Sydney in 1825 and was visiting London. Jones resigned from Nicholls's firm and entered into partnership with Appleton which included the Australian branches under the style of Appleton & Co.

In October 1834 Jones sailed with his family in the Thomas Harrison for Hobart, whence with plans for expanding business, he travelled overland to Launceston to gauge the needs of the settlers. He arrived in the Medway at Sydney in September 1835. Appleton had left his Sydney business under the control of a partner, Robert Bourne, a former missionary, and when Bourne's partnership expired on 31 December 1835 the firm became Appleton & Jones and the latter embarked on the ambitious plan of establishing in Sydney 'a house on the principles of the respectable wholesale London Firms'. When Appleton arrived a rift developed between him and Jones and the partnership was dissolved by mutual consent in 1838. Both Appleton and Jones published their versions of the quarrel in the press; Appleton was uneasy over what he considered a reckless credit policy pursued by Jones, who claimed in defence that since he had taken over the Sydney business in 1836 the turnover had increased tenfold to £80,000 a year, netting in the colony alone a profit of more than £7000 a year. Jones had certainly instituted a policy of liberal credit, for when the partnership ended the credit figure was over £30,000. Jones moved his business to premises on the corner of George Street and Barrack Lane, where David Jones Ltd still has a branch. To trade with London he formed a mutually protective association with his business friends and fellow Independents, Robert Bourne, Ambrose Foss, G. A. Lloyd and their consulting accountants, Thompson & Giles, with William Wemyss as their chief agent. Jones and his associates regularly secured the whole cargo space of ships bringing out bounty migrants, guaranteeing such profitable backloading as wool or tallow.

Jones survived the depression of the 1840s, business prospered and with his wife he visited England and Wales in 1849. He retired from active management of the business in 1856, taking in partners and leaving in it a capital of £30,000. A few years later the firm failed; faced with bankruptcy, he bought out his partners, returned to manage its affairs and in a few years had fully discharged all obligations to his creditors. He was seriously ill in 1866 but, under the treatment of his son Philip, he made a remarkable recovery. He finally retired in 1868 and died at his home in Lyons Terrace, Liverpool Street, Sydney, on 29 March 1873. His wife died three weeks later, aged 71.

David Jones had a noble and prepossessing presence and a kind and engaging personality; according to his friend Rev. W. Slatyer, 'he suffered from an unsuspicious and charitable judgment in giving others with whom he dealt credit for the integrity with which he himself was activated'. Apart from his family his main interests were business, religion and civic affairs. He had many investments in banks, steamship, insurance, building and other companies; he was a director of the Mutual Fire Insurance Co. formed in 1840, a foundation director of the Australian Mutual Provident Society in 1848, and a trustee and chairman of the Metropolitan and Counties Permanent Investment and Building Society in 1851. He was a deacon of the Congregational Church in Sydney for some thirty-five years, one of the founders and first council members of Camden College and a committee member of the local auxiliaries of the Bible and Religious Tract Societies. He was a generous benefactor to his own and other churches and was one of the Sydney merchants who each gave 1000 guineas to the Crimean war victims' fund. He was a member of the first Sydney City Council in 1842 and of the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1856-60.

He had four sons and four daughters by his third marriage. The eldest son David Mander (d.1864) married a cousin, Emily Ann Jones, and he with his brother George took up the 300-sq.-mile (777 km²) property, Boonara, on the Darling Downs. The second son, Philip Sydney (1836-1918), achieved eminence as a physician and was knighted. The youngest son, Edward Lloyd (1844-1894), married Helen Ann, daughter of Richard Jones and succeeded his father in the business. In September 1848 the eldest daughter, Eliza, married Robert, son of Dr Robert Ross.

• Death: at Lyons Terrace, Liverpool Street, 29 Mar 1873, Sydney Colony of New South Wales.

David married Catherine HUGHES [20391], daughter of Pastor HUGHES [84243], in 1813 in Pembrokeshire Wales. Catherine died in 1814 in Pembrokeshire Wales.

David next married Elizabeth WILLIAMS [20392] on 11 Sep 1822 in St George's Bloomsbury Middlesex England. Elizabeth was born on 1 Oct 1791 and died in 1826 in Bloomsbury Middlesex England, at age 35.

16 F i. JONES [84244] was born in 1823 and died before Dec 1826. (Infant Death)

17 F ii. JONES [84351] was born about 1826 and died before Dec 1826. (Infant Death)

David next married Jane Hall MANDER [20384], daughter of John Hall MANDER [20393] and Susanna BELLAMY [124471], on 7 Feb 1828 in St Andrew's Holborn London England. Jane was born on 12 Feb 1802 in London Middlesex England, died on 22 Apr 1873 in Sydney Colony of New South Wales, at age 71, and was buried in Rookwood Cemetery Lidcombe Colony of New South Wales.

• Death: at 5 Lyons Terrage [Hyde Park], 22 Apr 1873, Sydney Colony of New South Wales.

+ 18 F i. Eliza Jane JONES [18289] was born on 24 Oct 1829 in London Middlesex England, was baptised on 20 Nov 1829, and died on 18 Oct 1906 in Perth WA Australia, at age 76.

+ 19 F ii. Clarissa JONES [20394] was born on 27 Jun 1831 in London Middlesex England and died on 6 Oct 1911, at age 80.

+ 20 F iii. Jane JONES [20395] was born on 23 Feb 1834 in Kingsland Hackney London England and died in 1911 in Burwood Sydney NSW Australia, at age 77.

+ 21 M iv. David Mander JONES, JP [20390] was born on 8 Oct 1834 in London Middlesex England, died on 15 Dec 1864 in Goomeri Colony of Queensland, at age 30, and was buried in Boonara Cemetery Colony of Queensland.

+ 22 M v. Sir Philip Sydney JONES [20397] was born on 15 Apr 1836 in Sydney Colony of New South Wales and died on 18 Sep 1918 in Sydney NSW Australia, at age 82.

+ 23 M vi. George Hall JONES [20398] was born on 19 Mar 1837 in Sydney Colony of New South Wales and died on 2 Sep 1899 in Kilkivan Colony of Queensland, at age 62.

24 F vii. Annie Bellamy JONES [20399] was born on 29 Jan 1839 in Sydney Colony of New South Wales, was baptised on 3 May 1840 in Pitt St Congregational Church Sydney Colony of New South Wales, and died on 11 Nov 1857 in Woolloomooloo Sydney Colony of New South Wales, at age 18. (Died [relatively] Young)

• Birth: somewhere in Pitt Street, May 1839, Sydney Colony of New South Wales.

• Residence at Death: "Barncleuth", the Home of David Jones, 11 Nov 1857, Woollahra Sydney Colony of New South Wales.

25 F viii. Sarah JONES [20400] was born in 1840 and died in 1841, at age 1. (Infant Death)

+ 26 F ix. Sarah JONES [20401] was born on 24 Dec 1842 in Sydney Colony of New South Wales and died about 1916, aged about 74.

+ 27 M x. Edward Lloyd JONES [20402] was born in 1844 in Sydney Colony of New South Wales and died on 31 Oct 1894 in Redfern Sydney Colony of New South Wales, at age 50.

28 F xi. Mary Catherine JONES [124748] was born on 2 Jan 1846 in Sydney Colony of New South Wales and died on 17 Jun 1846 in Sydney Colony of New South Wales. (Infant Death)

4. Sarah JONES [124754] (Thomas¹) was born on 18 Dec 1795 in Carmarthenshire Wales and died on 19 Jun 1871 in Larkhill Rise Clapham Surrey England, at age 75.

Sarah married John Burrowes ROSE [124755]. John was born in 1799 and died in 1880, at age 81.

7. Mary JONES [124458] (Thomas¹) was born on 25 Dec 1805 in Wales and died on 19 Nov 1869 in Ystaylfera Glamorganshire Wales, at age 63.

Mary married Isaac EVANS [124756]. Isaac was born in 1797 and died in 1869, at age 72.

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