When Caroline A. Jones was born on 29 October 1821, in Lincoln, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, William Jones, was 36 and her mother, Parnal Parks, was 27. She married John Hammond on 8 June 1843. She lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870. She died on 22 October 1893, in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 71.
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
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