Tour Scotland Photograph Burne Jones Stained Glass Window Paisley Abbey

Tour Scotland photograph of the Burne Jones stained glass window in the Abbey in Paisley, Scotland.

Jones first appears on record as a surname in England in 1273 with the name " Matilda Jones ". Others put the first known record of the surname Jones as 1279, in Huntingdonshire, England. Around the time of the union of Wales with England, the traditional Welsh system of patronymics was increasingly replaced by surnames. Furthermore, Christian names such as John which were common in England had become increasingly preferred to distinctively Welsh Christian names such as Meredudd and Llewelyn. Thus " ab Ioan ", and many variations, meaning " son of John " became the surname Jones in a large number of cases, making it a very frequently used surname.

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