Jones family of Birlingham, Worcestershire

Jones family of Birlingham, Worcestershire - an overview

Surname origin
From Johannes
latinised version of Johanan 'Jehovah has favoured'.
Jones is a Welsh Patronymic.
A Dictionary of English Surnames by P H Reaney.
OUP revised third edition 1997.
019860092-5.

Hannah JONES was the wife of William SIMMONDS, shoemaker of Shipston on Stour. From the 1851 and 1861 census Hannah gave her birthplace as Birlingham, Worcestershire.
She was probably the Ann Jones baptised to Richard and Sarah on the 15th April 1804 at Birlingham.

Richard and Sarah baptised the following children at Birlingham.

William (1796 - )
James (1798 - )
Joyse (1800 - )
Thomas (1802 - )
'Ann' (1804 - ) = William SIMMONDS (c.1806 - 1878)
Matthew (1806 - )

Place and dates fit and William and Hannah named their sixth child Joyce