Ambrose Jones
Generation: 1
Generation: 3
Generation: 4
1. Ambrose Jones (son of Lt Col Oliver Jones, MP).
2. Lt Col Oliver Jones, MP (son of Lewis Jones); died about 1664. Notes:
Lieutenant Colonel Oliver Jones, M.P. was a Welsh-Irish soldier and politician from an influential Protestant family.
The fourth son of Bishop Lewis Jones.
He had at least two children, Rebecca and Ambrose.Children:
Generation: 3
4. Lewis Jones was born about 1542 in Merionethshire, Wales (son of Colonel John Jones and Catherine Henrietta Cromwell); died on 2 Nov 1646 in Dublin, Ireland. Notes:
Bishop of Killaloe, in the Church of Ireland.
Children:
- 2. Lt Col Oliver Jones, MP died about 1664.
- Sir Theophilus Jones died on 2 Jan 1685 in Osberstown, County Kildare, Ireland; was buried on 8 Jan 1685 in Naas.
- Bishop Henry Jones, DD died on 5 Jan 1681 in Dublin, Ireland.
- Bishop Ambrose Jones died on 15 Dec 1678; was buried in St. Andrew's, Dublin.
- Michael Jones died in 1649; was buried in St. Mary's Church, Youghal.
Generation: 4
8. Colonel John Jones was born about 1595 in Maes-y-Garnedd, Merionethshire, Wales (son of Thomas Jones and Ellen Wynn); died on 17 Oct 1660. Notes:
Regicide. Jones was selected as one of the king's judges, attended the trial with great regularity, and signed the death-warrant (Noble, Lives of the Regicides, i. 372).
(Research):His descendant, Captain James Jones, later Skelton, had a daughter, Jemima, who married Charles, 1st Marquess of Cornwallis. This contadicts the statement that Cathering and he had no issue.
Possible links to Col. Philip Jones of Fonmon Castle, who was 'called to the upper House by Cromwell
Died:
He was executed for being one of the King's jidges, together with Adrian Scroop, on 17 Oct. 1660, and died with great courage and dignity.John married Catherine Henrietta Cromwell in 1628. Catherine (daughter of Robert Cromwell and Elizabeth Steward) was born in 1596 in Huntingdon on the Ouse; was christened on 7 Feb 1596; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
9. Catherine Henrietta Cromwell was born in 1596 in Huntingdon on the Ouse; was christened on 7 Feb 1596 (daughter of Robert Cromwell and Elizabeth Steward); and died. Notes:
by John Jones she had no issue - but this does not explain the claim that Jemima Jones, wife of Catherine, 1st Marquess of Cornwallis, is a descendant
(Research):Said to be Oliver Cromwell's eldest sister, and elsewhere the second daughter - so did her older femal siblings die young?
Possible son Anson Jones
Christened:
or 1597Children:
- William Jones
- 4. Lewis Jones was born about 1542 in Merionethshire, Wales; died on 2 Nov 1646 in Dublin, Ireland.