I’m just back from a visit to Ireland so it’s been in my mind about my Irish ancestors. I do have some, but they are proving very elusive. Apparently the Fords had Irish roots but this is unsubstantiated and I have got nowhere on the Ford line to date (see below).
The definite connection is on the Maud Annie Jones line – definite in the sense that there are witnesses to Irish accents and customs! Her mother was Mary Ann Wallace / Wallis: no record of her being actually born in Ireland as all the census records say Deptford and her parents married at Greenwich (1872).
So that puts it back on her father: John Wallis / Wallace. His place of birth is not known: I have his marriage certificate to Mary Ann Longton where he is 23 and a painter. His father is John Wallis and he is deceased. I also don’t have any definite census records for him so I am, pretty much, stuck. Really frustrating! I don’t even know when he died.
I have 2 Jones lines in my tree so I live in hope there may be some Welsh blood there somewhere…. Anyway, I am lamentably stuck at the moment on John Jones (b.1872). The facts on him so far:
Dec 1890: he marries Mary Ann Wallace / Wallis. His father is John George Jones (deceased) and he was living at 8 Brockley Terrace, Walworth. He is 18 and a labourer. They married at St Saviour.
1891: Aged 18, living at 10 Blackhorse Road, Deptford with wife Mary Ann and her grandmother Mary Ann Longton and family. He is a dock labourer like his uncle-in-law Michael Howard.
In 1901 he is not with his wife and children (George, Albert and Maud Annie) as they are living in Deptford with his brother-in-law James.
The issues are as follows: I am not confident in his date of birth (1872) as he may have been lying on his marriage certificate if they were very young and also the 1891 Census information may have come from his grandma-in-law so again could have been an approximation. Was he born in Deptford?
Trying to look for a John Jones, son of John Jones, is very elusive! Also his dad could have died before 1881 in which case it is even harder to do.
So I have tried looking for a John George Jones who died between 1872 and 1890 in London, Kent and Surrey: Mar 1874 (47, Wandsworth), Jun 1877 (48, Strand) and Sep 1879 (47, Islington). None of them look wildly likely.
Still stuck. 
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