Annie niece of Robert Vernon JONES Blistors Farm, Bream (General)

by unknown, Monday, January 02, 2012, 02:19 (4713 days ago) @ peteressex

I was most interested to see SunGreen's upload of Vernon Jones' Shire horse, the more so when the FoD Family History posts were notified to me by Peter Essex - my 3rd Cousin!

The birth dates, locations and marriage for Vernon and his wife, plus her maiden name were unknown to me, so I was delighted to at last add these jigsaw pieces. However, it is time to correct the historical record, over a century having passed!!

The 1901 Census reflects some sensibilities in terming Annie Jones as a niece. She was actually Robert Vernon Jones's illegitimate daughter by Rose House. It was, to my mind, exceedingly unusual that the erring father stepped up to raise his child. What Annie Beatrice Jones's thoughts were are lost to history.

Annie, my maternal grandmother, styled herself as Annie House Jones, which I now assume must have been in later life. I've never seen her wedding certificate, which doubtless vanished to the Dark Continent with Annie H. Pritchard's eldest son, my uncle, who was also Robert Vernon, but a Pritchard, of course. My mother, Violet (never used!) Mary Pritchard was Annie's second child.

My grandmother did eventually meet her real mother, who had married James Barrow. Sadly, the circumstances and timing of that were never imparted to me. If she & James Barrow had descendants, then they're my blood relatives. It would be pleasing to close the loop, though quite what the genealogical terms might be, I've yet to work out!!

Rog Dennis