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Surname origins First name Derived from the first name of an ancestor Meaning i) Son of John Geographic origins i) The most common name in Wales and in England the second most common name after Smith Language Old French (Norman) Sources i) Cottle, Basil, The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames (London: Penguin UK, 1967) ii) Reaney & Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958) William and Mary Jones lived in the Southwark area of London in the first half of the 19th century. At least two generations of their family worked in the cloth trade as dyers. Their granddaughter - my great grandmother - Hetty Jones was born in 1865 in Westminster and married William Sidney Clark in Lambeth in 1892. They had 3 sons. Do you have any information on the following person? Benjamin John Jones   b. 1829 (in Newington, Southwark) Surnames Genealogy in England