The Welsh Saints Project

Given Name: Rees
Surname: Jones

Gender: Male

Birth date: 20 September 1863

Birth place: Tredegar, Monmouthshire, Wales

Death date: 2 September 1922

Death place: Midvale, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

Burial date: 6 September 1922

Burial place: Midvale, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

Father: Richard Jones
Mother: Anne Parry

Siblings

Werrett, Margaret Jane (1866-1953)

Married 30 June 1894

Children

Jones, Margaret
Jones, Ethel
Jones, Edith
Jones, Thomas Richard
Jones, Martha Myrtle
Jones, Douglas Kent

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Left Liverpool, Lancashire, England on 5 June 1880 aboard the ship Wisconsin.
Arrived in New York, Kings, New York, United States on 16 June 1880.

Jones, Richard and Ann Parry and their children

Rees's older sister Eleanor came to America in 1878 on board the "Wyoming". She married David Phillips and was the mother of 11 children.

Ann Parry Jones, the mother of Rees and Eleanor, died in 1872 a few days following the birth of Elizabeth, her 8th child.

In 1880 Rees, age 16, came to America on board the "Wisconsin" and brought with him two younger sisters: Mary Ann, age 10, and Elizabeth, age 8.

Rees's older brother Howell Parry Jones, born 1862, married Sarah Ann James in 1892. They had 5 children, 3 of whom lived to adulthood and married. Sometime before 1917 they and their mother came to America. Howell remained in Wales and died on 28 July 1928.

Rees Jones

Siblings