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William Gresley Jones
Holloway Cottage
Bodlondeb
Elizabeth (Davies) Jones
Elizabeth (Davies) Jones
Philip Thomas Jones On the reverse of this photograph Philip's neice wrote: This suggests that Philip did not die in Chicago.
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Chapter 3: William Gresley Jones and his families
With William Gresley Jones, the only child of Robert and Mary Anne Jones and my paternal great-grandfather, one reaches firmer ground. Not only did most of his life come within the period of formal birth, marriage and death certificates, but he left papers which throw a good deal of light on his private affairs. Also, with William Gresley Jones there was not the hiatus which occurred when Robert and Mary Anne died in his infancy: personal recollections of him and his family (more specifically, the family of his second marriage) were carried into later generations, whereas his knowledge of his own parents can at best have been only second-hand. Even so, there are parts of William Gresley Jones's life into which my researches have been unable to throw any light and the chances of further reliable information becoming available now seem to be remote, One of the main problems concerns his early years up to the mid-1830s, and there is even a minor mystery concerning his baptism. Although he was born in Liverpool in May 1810 (a fact which is also recorded in his baptismal entry in the Holywell registers) he was not baptised until April 1812. This was approximately one year after the death of his father and only six months before the death of his mother. The reason for this delay can only be a matter for conjecture. One possibility is that there was some disagreement over what he should be called and that this was not resolved until after his father had died: the name he was eventually given seems to have come from Mary Anne's uncle in Liverpool and was not a family name of the Joneses of Holywell. What is clear, however, is that William Gresley Jones was left an orphan at an early age. He then disappears completely for well over twenty years, apart from the fact that (mother's uncle) Dr William Gresley's will of December 1825 mentions that he was then living in Holywell at the age of 15. The assumption must be that he was brought up by his father’s relatives in the Holywell area. Edward Jones of Dyserth, quoting Jane Elizabeth Jones and his own father, told me that William Gresley Jones had been educated at St Bees School in Cumberland and that some of his children had also been educated there. I have not been able to verify this from the School's class lists, which go back to the 18th century, but it is possible that he was educated at St Bees Theological College, which trained young men for the church during the first half of the last century. The Bursar of St Bees School itself has told me that it would have been very unusual for a pupil to have come from so far away as North Wales at the time William Gresley Jones was young, but I cannot think that St Bees would have remained in the family's memory if the story had not had some foundation in the truth. It may be a relevant point that the Gresley family had a long association with the Church - they provided a number of rectors of Netherseal - and William Gresley Jones' private papers show that he was a well educated man who was acquainted with clergymen in the Holywell area and further afield. My great-grandfather reappears in the mid-1830s, by which time he was a substantial land and property owner living in Holywell. His first wife, and my great-grandmother, was Anne Daniel, who was born in Holywell in December 1810, the fifth child and fourth daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Daniel (see Appendix B). The Daniels were a Holywell family of grocers and flax dressers who had shops in the High Street and Whitford Street and a farm in The Strand. (One of the shop buildings, a black and white structure, still stands at the north-west end of the High Street, about 50 yards short of Cross Street, and parts of the old farm buildings are to be found behind the south end of the High Street near the junction with the modern Strand Walk.) Despite extensive searches in the registers of Holywell and neighbouring parishes I have been unable to trace the record of the marriage of William and Anne, but it must have taken place about 1833, when they were 23 years old. At first I thought that William Gresley Jones might have lived in Liverpool when young and also been married there, as were several of his children in later years. But Dr William Gresley's will, referred to above, indicates that he lived in Holywell. In any case it is difficult to know how he would have met Anne Daniel in the first place if his early home had been Liverpool, because it is clear that her family had lived in Holywell since at least 1800 and continued to do so for many years afterwards. Nevertheless I think that Liverpool remains a distinct possibility. William and Anne's places of abode can be traced through the registration of their children's births and baptisms. The eldest child, Emily, was born in February 1835, when their address was shown in the parish register as "Holywell"; but where in Holywell cannot now be determined as the rate books that might have helped only start in November 1839. (Editor's note: Emily was born at Pystill Hall, Holywell, possibly the house of William's grandmother Anne Jones née Totty, who with his grandfather Thomas probably raised William when he was orphaned.) The second child, Hardy, was born in August 1836, when the abode was shown as "Greenfield". The last child to be born in the Holywell area was Roger Gresley, and the certificate of his birth in February 1839 shows his parents' address as "Holloway Cottage". This house can be traced from the 1839 rate books, where it is recorded as a house and garden valued at £12 a year. And it still stands as a very trim black and white house just off the A55 road through Holway, on the northern outskirts of Holywell near the junction with the side road to Carmel and with a fine view across the Dee estuary. In 1839 the whole of this area was classified as part of the rural district of Greenfield, although far from the present Greenfield alongside the River Dee; and it is therefore reasonable to assume that William and Anne were in occupation of this house when Hardy was born in August 1836. William Gresley Jones's diary for 1839 records that at the beginning of that year he began to build "my new house at Cwm". This was a very substantial country house set in 26 acres of land on the hills above Rhuallt, in the parish of Cwm, overlooking the Vale of Clwyd in the direction of St Asaph. The house was completed by the end of 1839, when it was shown in a local map as Plas yn Mynydd ("the Hall on the Mountain"), but for some reason it was not occupied until about the middle of 1840, shortly before the birth of the fourth child, Philip Thomas (baptised with Roger at Cwm 22nd September, 1840). The 1841 census shows the family in occupation of the new house at the beginning of April in that year, the name having in the meantime been changed to Bodlondeb ("contentment"). The family of William and Anne was completed with the births of Mary Elizabeth Anne in March 1844. and my grandfather Clement William Robert in April 1846. On 7 December 1848 Anne Jones died of tuberculosis at Bodlondeb, aged only 38, and she was buried at Holywell on 14 December. By then she had already lost both of her parents, both of her brothers, and at least three of her six sisters - most of them within the previous five or six years. William did not remain a widower for long, for on 16 May 1849 he married Elizabeth Davies at Cwm Church. Elizabeth who was then 20 (b.1828), and 19 years younger than my great-grandfather, had been employed as Anne's housemaid at Bodlondeb and looked after her and the children during her last illness. She was the daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Davies of Mwdwl Eithin, near Holywell (see Appendix C). Her father was shown as a coalminer in the 1841 census and as a sawyer in the marriage certificate, and had five other children. William Gresley Jones’s diary for 1839 shows that the Davies family were already known to him at that earlier date, because one of the sons was engaged in completing the building of Bodlondeb and the other was one of his house-servants at Holloway Cottage. And after his marriage to Elizabeth two of the younger Davies children were employed as house-servants at Bodlondeb. William Gresley Jones's second marriage produced nine more children; the first seven were born at Bodlondeb between 1850 and 1860 (Editor's note: there is a suggestion from other research that the first of these children, William Gresley, was in fact born before the marriage, in which case he was conceived and possibly born before the death of Anne). In the latter year he lost much of his capital in a bank failure and decided to sell Bodlondeb and move to one of his other properties - Ty Isa farm at Gwaenysgor near Prestatyn. Two children were born at Ty Isa but died young, and William himself eventually died there on 14 February 1881, aged 71. He was buried at Gwaenysgor, his death certificate bearing the cryptic statement that the informant was Sarah Pritchard, "the person causing the body to be buried". Elizabeth remained at Gwaenysgor for about ten years and then moved to Boswell House in Sandy Lane, Prestatyn, which was being developed as a resort at the foot of the hills on which Gwaenysgor was situated. She died there in 1906 and was buried with William and the two youngest children at Gwaenysgor. The tombstone stands near the lower churchyard gate and there is a commemorative plaque on the wall of the nave of the church. Ty Isa farm and Boswell House remain in use. The former, which is now a scheduled building, has changed very little since William Gresley Jones lived there save for the addition of some additional outhouses. But Bodlondeb, renamed Bodlonfa ("place of contentment") when occupied by a Miss Catherine Grey around 1890, has for many years lain unoccupied and is now in a dilapidated state. Thanks to the courtesy of the present owner, Mr Jones of Rhuallt (no relation), I have seen over the house and grounds, with its fine walled garden, and stood in the vast main bedroom where no doubt my grandfather was born and my great-grandmother died so many years ago. The lodge has been rebuilt and sold, and the walled garden with its fruit trees and wind-pump lies derelict, given over to grazing sheep from neighbouring farms. But the fine approach avenue of beech trees remains untouched and the extensive stone out-buildings continue in use for storage and similar purposes. Despite the general air of neglect and decay it is not difficult to appreciate that Bodlondeb in its prime was a very pleasant country estate. (Editor's note: since Trevor wrote this in the 1970s, "Bodlonfa Hall" and "Bodlonfa Hall Mews" have been restored and converted into a number of homes). What is known about William Gresley Jones as a person, and about his family affairs? The impressions one gets from family hearsay and from an examination of his own papers vary considerably, According to Jane Elizabeth he had a reputation for being a tearaway in his younger days, was often drunk, and spent much of his time at the old Holywell racecourse. It is said that he was friendly with Sir Piers Mostyn, a member of the junior (Roman Catholic) branch of the Mostyn family established at that time in the Talacre area near the Point of Air; and that frequently the two of them would take the coach from the old Travellers' Inn on the St Asaph road and go up to London for weekends, On the subject of drunkenness it is said that after he had been spending an evening in the Mostyn area (perhaps at Pentrefynnon Hall) and was incapable of finding his own way home across the unlit countryside, he would be put on the back of his horse "Captain" and the horse would in due course deposit him in the yard of Bodlondeb without further assistance. He also had the reputation of being rather troublesome to his neighbours at Bodlondeb, as both he and some of his sons were in the habit of riding their horses over adjoining farmland and damaging crops and fences. One other story that has survived is that he attempted at one time to place a barrier across the St Asaph road near the top of Rhuallt hill and levy tolls on travellers, and that the barrier had to be destroyed by a detachment of soldiers from Holywell. A less unfavourable picture of William Gresley Jones was given to me by one of his granddaughters, the daughter of Jane Elizabeth’s younger brother Edwin. She said that he had been a very strict man, and that his strictness had caused her own father to run away from home (this would have been when the family were at Gwaenysgor). On the other hand he was said to have been a fair man who was fond of his children and had ensured that all of them - except Jane Elizabeth and Edwin, who had been sent to the local village school - were given a good education. She did not mention drunkenness or any connection with the Mostyns of Talacre. And as some support for her impression that her grandfather had many good points she added that he had provided Gwaenysgor church with a new organ. Ironically, he then found himself having to serve as the church organist for the next ten years or so because nobody else could play the instrument! William Gresley Jones's diary and accounts contain a number of references to his financial dealings with the Mostyns of Mostyn (the senior branch of the family, which is still seated at Mostyn Hall), but no references at all to Sir Piers Mostyn and the Mostyns of Talacre. Sir Piers Mostyn was certainly the head of that branch of the family during the 1830s and 1840s, but I cannot understand. how there can have been any connection with my great-grandfather. Furthermore, the picture that emerges from the diary and accounts, which covered the period of fifteen years or so up to 1850, is not easy to reconcile with that of a drunkard and a wastrel. The diary records the settlement of a bill for liquor supplied by Mr Edisbury of Holywell, so it can be accepted that William Gresley Jones was not a teetotaller. But that apart, he emerges as a well-educated man who had many contacts in the local community and was interested in what went on within his own social circle. He seems to have been quite strict with his houseservants and dismissed them summarily for laziness or smoking during working hours. But allowance must be made for the social attitudes of his day; and I think it can be said in his favour that none of his strictures was directed against one of his employees referred to rather quaintly as "David the Dumb Man". The accounts of his cash transactions with his handyman Ned Hughes at Bodlondeb in the 1840s also indicate that although he was careful with his money he did not act unfairly to those who worked for him. Incidentally, the cash accounts give some rather entertaining glimpses of life on the Bodlondeb estate during the last eight years of his first marriage. For example, After this lapse of time one can only speculate on William's true character. I myself see him as somewhat of a social and intellectual snob who never had to work and probably had more money than was good for him throughout most of his earlier life. He was probably fond enough of his many children - or the majority of them - without paying any particular attention to them as individuals or exercising much effective control over them as they grew up and he may well have regarded the provision of a good education as the limit of his commitment to his sons and not concerned himself overmuch with his daughters. (His eldest daughter Emily was unable to sign her name when she witnessed a wage payment to Ned Hughes in September 1848 and had to make her mark, although she was by then 13 years old.) On the question of drunkenness and riotous living I have an open mind. I think some regard must be paid to the fact that these stories emanated in the main from Jane Elizabeth, who was a person of strong prejudices and was not particularly well-disposed towards her father. On the other hand, she was 26 when her father died and had lived at Bodlondeb during the first six or seven years of her life; and although her accounts may have become slanted over the years, I have little doubt that they had some basis in fact. Whether such drunkenness as there was stemmed from weakness of character, unwise friendships, boredom, grief, or unhappy family relationships it is impossible to say. Of William Gresley Jones's first wife, Anne, nothing is known apart from the bare facts recounted above. As for his second wife, Elizabeth, she has been described by more than one of her descendants as a "tartar"; and to judge from her photograph dating from about 1890 and the punitive and unbalanced terms of her will this description was probably justified. I have little doubt that she was the dominant partner in the second marriage. Although I have said that William Gresley Jones was very comfortably off in the financial sense - especially up to 1860 - the origin of his wealth remains a mystery. His accounts for the years 1834 - 1850 show that by the beginning of this period he owned not only his own house in Holywell but extensive properties elsewhere. These included much of the Pen-y-Ball area of Holywell itself as well as shops in the High Street (from one of which he received rent from Anne's elder sister Elizabeth); also farms at Cefn Eurgain near Northop; and Ty Isa, Pen y Marian and one of the two inns at Gwaenysgor. His accounts also show that he had lent some thousands of pounds to Sir Thomas Mostyn, Bt., and Edmund Bate (of the Bates of Kelsterton) because he was continuing to draw interest on these loans throughout the 1840s. And, of course, he had sufficient capital on top of that to build Bodlondeb in 1839. As Sir Thomas Mostyn Bt. died in 1831, it follows that these substantial loans were first made at the time that William Gresley Jones was only 20 or 21 years of age. It seems very unlikely that he acquired his wealth as the result of trade or property development, neither of which he appears to have been engaged in at any time in his life. The only other source would seem to be inheritance. But from whom? There is no trace of a will by Robert or Mary Anne Jones in the diocesan records or in those of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury: nor does it appear that Mary Anne's father Robert Gresley ever made a will either. And although I do not necessarily accept a family story that Mary Anne was disinherited for marrying Robert Jones, all the indications are that William Gresley Jones's money did not come from Gresley sources. Of the many children of John Gresley of Netherseal (referred to in Chapter 2) only two married or had children: one was Robert Gresley himself and the other was his elder half-brother, the Rev Dr Thomas Gresley of Netherseal. It may be significant that when Dr Thomas Gresley made his will in 1785 - leaving his extensive properties to his own children - he stipulated that £500 should be set aside to provide interest for his half-brother Robert since he thought it possible that Robert might become destitute at some time. This certainly suggests that Robert would have had little to leave to Mary Anne, who was in any case one of several children to be provided for. Another source might have been Dr William Gresley of Liverpool, with whom Mary Anne was living at the time of her marriage and who survived his niece by many years. But I have established that Dr Gresley's will of December 1825 disposed of only a modest sum, and William Gresley Jones was given only a conditional quarter share with other great-nephews and great-nieces of the testator (presumably children of Mary Anne's surviving brothers). That seems to leave as possible sources of William Gresley Jones's wealth only the Joneses or the Daniels of Holywell, or some member of one of the Mostyn families. I think the latter possibility can safely be discounted. Nor is it at all likely that either Robert Jones's father Thomas, or the Daniel family, would have provided the money or the properties in various parts of Flintshire. Their businesses were all concentrated in Holywell itself and the Daniels, at any rate, had many other children to provide for. Unfortunately there appears to be no way of solving this problem. All that can definitely be stated is that when William Gresley Jones died in 1881 his estate was valued at less than £400, whereas Elizabeth his second wife left in excess of £4000 - far less than William had been worth in his earlier days but for 1906 a substantial sum nevertheless. (Editor's note: In ~1983 Trevor located the will of William's grandfather Thomas Jones, which left "all the rest of his estate, including farms at Northop and Gwaenysgor, to his grandson William Gresley Jones absolutely" - see addendum to Chapter 2. This inheritance and the extent of Thomas Jones's estate can't have been known to Trevor when he completed the above paragraph.) When I first started to collect information about William Gresley Jones I was also puzzled to know what had happened to the five eldest children of his first marriage: that is, my grandfather's brothers and sisters. Although the four eldest were shown in the 1841 census return for Bodlondeb they had all disappeared ten years later, The 1851 return - which showed the second wife Elizabeth and the eldest son of the second marriage - included only my grandfather and his sister Mary Elizabeth Anne from the first marriage. Furthermore, I was not able to tell from the 1861 census what had become of Anne Daniel's children because the returns for Gwaenysgor, where the family was then living, have unfortunately been lost. In the outcome I have not been able to establish where the four eldest of Anne's children were in 1851, although it is possible that some of them, at least, had been sent away to school. But further enquiries have enabled me to fill in some of the gaps in their later history, Emily, the eldest, remains a shadowy figure. Although it is known that she was still living at Bodlondeb in September 1848 when she witnessed a payment to Ned Hughes (see above), nothing else is known of her. There is no record of her marriage or burial in the Cwm registers, and it is possible that she went to Liverpool to live, as did several of the other children. (Editor's note: Emily was estranged from her father after he remarried. She believed he contrived to deprive her out of her inheritance whilst she was under age; moreover the former maid who became her stepmother was only 7 years older than herself, which may have caused friction. Emily went to Liverpool where she was lodging in 1861. in 1864 she was living in St Pancras, Middlesex, where she married Jonathan Williams, a coachbuilder, at Old St Pancras Church. View marriage certificate. In 1881 she was living with her sons Albert and Jonathan (II) in Tottenham. The census return shows her as a widow, but her husband was living in St Pancras with daughter Emily (II), he died in 1906 aged 71.) The second child, Hardy, was, I was told, named after Nelson's Hardy, who fought at Trafalgar and was understood to have been his godfather. But as the latter died, a very old and blind man, at Greenwich in the year in which William Gresley Jones's son was born, I am prepared to dismiss this story as fanciful (Editor's note: Nelson's Hardy died aged 70 in 1839, when Hardy Jones was three. He had been the Governor of Greenwich Hospital since 1834). Hardy Jones was, however, shown in the 1874 electoral rolls as a resident of Queen Street, Rhyl, where it is believed that he had a photographic studio. Later in life he was employed as a surveyor by the Denbighshire County Council and then travelled round the world for some years. Eventually he died more or less destitute in a Liverpool workhouse at some date before 1905. (Additional information supplied by Genes Reunited member Alison Burroughs: In 1861 Hardy is at Brompton Barracks as a sapper in the Indian Engineers, 25 years old and unmarried. In 1881 living with dau. Ada b.1868 in India and his nephew Arthur b.1869 Winconsin U.S.A. (possibly Philip Thomas' son). In 1891 he is a lodger aged 54 living in Everton, Liverpool.) The third child, Roger Gresley, went to Liverpool as a young man, married my grandmother's sister there in July 1866, and seven years later died of tuberculosis. His widow Elizabeth lived in Liverpool for many years afterwards but never remarried. One of her children, Albert Edward, my father's cousin, returned to live in Dyserth before the First World War and bought Tan-y-Graig farm on the Upper Vol Road. Arthur and Edward Jones, referred to in Chapter 1, are two of Albert Edward's three children and Edward still lives at Tan-y-Graig, although it has long since ceased to be a farm. The fourth child of William and Anne was Philip Thomas and he, like Emily, remains a shadowy figure for he completely disappears from the records after the 1841 census. It is believed that he died in the Chicago area of North America towards the end of the century. (Editor's note: Philip Thomas may have died in Bath - see inscription on the reverse of his photograph.) That leaves Mary Elizabeth Anne and my grandfather, Clement William Robert, of the children of the first marriage. A search in the General Register Office showed that Mary Elizabeth Anne married George Buffey Leake, a blacksmith living in Taylor Street Liverpool, in October 1868. As for my grandfather, I give further information about him in Chapter 6. Of the nine children of William Gresley Jones's second marriage the eldest - William Gresley - became a dental surgeon in Bradford; but all the others remained in North Wales or the Liverpool area. Robert John (whom my father mistakenly believed to be his full uncle) went to the Klondyke in the 1890s, but failed to make his fortune there and returned to manage an inn at Dyserth. He later lived in a house called "Drakelow" on the sea front at Prestatyn, and was known locally as "Drakelow Jones". He died in 1935. Robert John, like his father, married twice. The child of his first marriage was John Robert Gresley-Jones, later an alderman and Chairman of Caernarvon County Council, who was responsible for the information in the newspaper article of August 1961 (see Chapter 2) and seems to have been prepared to accept without question those parts of the family story which have since proved to be unreliable. Philip Thomas Gresley-Jones of Rhyl, referred to in Chapter 1, was one of the many children of Robert John's second marriage. (Editor's note: Vicki Voth of Rossland, British Columbia writes that Robert John and his second wife travelled to Canada to the booming gold mine town of Rossland BC (not the Klondike) before returning to Wales with Canadian born children, one of whom went back to Rossland with his Welsh born children.) EIizabeth, the third child and eldest daughter of William Gresley Jones and Elizabeth Davies, lived at Prestatyn where she died unmarried in 1885. Jane Elizabeth, the fourth child and an important source of information about her father and his second family, was married for many years to an eccentric Naval captain whose mind had been unhinged by blackwater fever and who used to walk up and down the sea front at Prestatyn wearing full dress uniform and a sword, rather pathetically waiting for his next commission. Jane Elizabeth died at Llandudno in 1932. Thomas Terrick, the fifth child, lived later in life in Birkenhead and I am told that he became the father-in-law of the famous American golfer Bobby Jones. (Editor's note: Thomas Terrick's great-great-grandson Ben Staniford casts doubt on this claim - Bobby Jones married just once, to Mary Rice Malone. Vicki Voth has clarification: it was Thomas' brother Alfred Peter who was father-in-law to Ernest Jones (1887-1965), the golfer / teacher inducted into the World Golf Teachers Hall of Fame in 1977. Ernest married Alfred Peter's daughter Rose. They in turn had a daughter Rosina Gresley Jones who was a 'budding golf star' before her untimely death at the age of 22 in December 1932.) (More information copied from Ben Staniford's website: Thomas Terrick was born at Bodlondeb on 18th February, 1857, and baptized at Cwm on 16th March of that year. While still a boy his father suffered a big financial loss and left Bodlondeb to reside as a gentleman farmer at Ty-isa farm, Gwaenesgor. Thus Thomas was unable to continue his education at the King Edward the Sixth Grammar School in Evesham, as had his elder brothers. He became a plasterer of some note and erected ceilings in the Liverpool Adelphi Hotel and other notable buildings. During this period of his life his work took him several times to America. He then drove a four-in-hand between Birkenhead and Llandudno, and later was registered as a cotton porter and was employed by Messrs Ralli Brothers of Liverpool. (This latter term included all from labourer to warehouse captain). He first married Julia Mary Sydney Belmont and lived at Brynllwyn Gwaenesgor. He had issue:- 1.Percival Gresley, born 1882, who on 10th June, 1905, married Edith Elizabeth Lloyd and had two sons, Percival Gresley and Albert, both of whom married and had issue. He died in June 1963. 2.Sydney (a daughter) born 27th July, 1884, and who probably died in infancy (there being no further records of her). His wife, Julie, died on 20th October, 1884, (three months after giving birth to Sydney) and on 27th February 1886, Thomas Terrick married Elizabeth Dobie and had further issue:- 1.John Terrick (Tarick or Tarrick) 2.Thomas Gresley, born 8th November, 1888, and who married Edith Kingston and died 10th September 1958 without issue. 3.William Earnest, born 21st December 1890 and married Kathleen Gleaves.) Alfred Peter remained in the Prestatyn area, and to judge from an entry in the Gwaenysgor registers he was employed as a farmworker for part of his life. Edwin, the seventh child, and the last one to be born at Bodlondeb, became a policeman at Holywell (From Ben Staniford: Edwin married Mary Jane, four children Mary Elizabeth, John William m. Dolly children Edwin & Mary Jane, Walter m. Winifred Wilson child Eric and Florence). The two youngest of the nine children of William Gresley Jones and Elizabeth Davies, Walter and Tertia, were born at Gwaenysgor. Walter was killed by a kick from a horse in the farm-yard at Ty Isa when he was ten years old (Editor's note: eight years old) and Tertia died in infancy (Editor's note: aged six). According to the obituary notice of my grandfather, Clement William Robert, he was the last surviving child of William Gresley Jones and Anne Daniel when he died in 1905 (see Chapter 6); and my father, Everett Jones (Chapter 11), was their last surviving grandchild at the time of his death in April 1969. The last surviving grandchild of the second marriage was Florence, the daughter of Edwin, who died in Derbyshire in 1977. (Editor's note: Vicki Voth writes in 2010 "The last surviving child of Robert John and therefore 'last surviving grandchild of William's second marriage' is in fact still alive and was able to enlighten me a few years ago on the last point.")
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