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Waters Upton churchyard MIs: JONES

IN
Affectionate Remembrance of
JANE,
THE BELOVED WIFE OF JOSEPH JONES,
OF WATERS UPTON;
WHO DIED JANUARY 17TH 1901,
AGED 71 YEARS.
“HER END WAS PEACE.”
Also of the above
JOSEPH JONES,
WHO DIED MARCH 21ST 1907,
AGED 76 YEARS.
‘THY WILL BE DONE.’
PARISH CLERK AND
SEXTON OF THIS PARISH FOR 32 YEARS.

The 1881 and 1891 census returns show Joseph Jones, a farm waggoner born about 1832 at Weston in the parish of Baschurch, and wife Jane Jones, born about 1831 (give or take a year or so either way) at Dunsheath (nowadays Dunnsheath, a tiny settlement just north of Leaton Knolls on the road from Shrewsbury to Baschurch).

An Ancestry member’s family tree indicates that Joseph Jones married Jane Evans at Shrewsbury on 4 Oct 1852, making Jane the daughter of Griffith Evans, a labourer who was living with his family in the township of Leaton in the parish of Shrewsbury St Mary (which then extended a long way north-westwards out of Shrewsbury).

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