(1852 - 1896)
Born on 05th may 1852 at Pentre Felin, Wrexham, Denbighshire to Thomas JONES, sawyer and Catherine JONES (nee WILLIAMS).
I find Thomas and Catherine in the 1851 census at Pentre Felin with Maurice aged 3, John aged 1 and Catherine aged 2 months. A lodger Thomas BAKER aged 20 is also at the address.
By 1861 the family had moved to 14 Belle Vue Road, Wrexham. I find Catherine aged 10, William aged 8, Thomas aged 4, Jane aged 2 and Morris aged 1.
In the 1871 census the mother, Catherine, is widowed and the following children are still at home: Jane aged 13, Morris aged 9 and Anne aged 7.
At this time William, second waggoner, appears to be with brother Thomas, farm servant, on Sarah LEWIS' farm in the Erlas area of Wrexham.
A year later in 1872 William JONES married Sarah Jane HUXLEY at the Parish Church of Wrexham.
He and Sarah are living at 40 Chester Street, Wrexham in the 1881 census with the following children: Jane aged 7, William aged 4, Charles aged 3, Sarah A. aged 1 and a Sarah ROBERTS aged 78, an aunt, is visiting.
William purchased grave 3223 in section "L" of Wrexham Cemetery in 1889, as it appears another possible daughter named Catherine aged 11 months was buried in that same year.
In 1891 they have moved again into 38 Chester Street, Wrexham and have the following children still at home: William H. and Sarah A. or G. ages have blurred, Emily possibly aged 10, Phoebe aged 8, Morris aged 6, Frederick aged 4 and Kate aged 1.
Sadly William, a carter, died at Cobden Road, Wrexham on 16th October 1896 due to meningitis and was buried with his daughter at Wrexham Cemetery.
Sarah Jane JONES (nee VAUGHAN, aka HUXLEY)
(1855 - 1919)
Born on 04th February 1855 at Poor Land Cottages, Bieston, Wrexham, Denbighshire to Ellen VAUGHAN, no father named.
In 1851 I find an Ellen VAUGHAN with her siblings and parents, Charles and Ellen VAUGHAN in Bieston, Wrexham.
Yet in 1861, at Poor's Land, Bieston, I find Sarah Jane VAUGHAN with her grandparents Charles and Ellen VAUGHAN but her mother is not there. Further research enabled me to locate an Ellen VAUGHAN marrying a Thomas HUXLEY in 1857.
Thomas and Ellen are in Holt, Denbighshire in 1861 with their daughter Ann HUXLEY aged 3.
Sarah Jane VAUGHAN is still with her grandparents in 1871, the year before her marriage to William JONES where she is named as Sarah Jane HUXLEY and Thomas HUXLEY is listed as her father.
On her son's birth certificate she informs us that her maiden name was VAUGHAN, so I guess Thomas HUXLEY was a step-father.
1881 with her husband William JONES
1891 with her husband William JONES
It is the 1901 census in Warrington, Lancashire that shocks me, as she seems to have moved up in the world. She is a widow and is listed as having her own account, it appears by letting apartments.
With her is her children: Phoebe aged 20, Kate aged 12, Fred aged 14 and Maurice aged 18.
There is a ship's carpenter and an electrical engineer who are boarders and a theatrical *? agent, wardrobe mistress and two theatrical carpenters as lodgers.
At some point though, between 1901 and 1919 she had left Warrington and had returned to Wrexham. She died at 16 Lambpit Street, Wrexham and her daughter Phoebe DOWNES was present at the death. She was buried with her husband and baby daughter at Wrexham Cemetery, sadly there is no stone to mark the grave.
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