Bishop Ambrose Jones
- 1678
Generation: 1
Generation: 3
Generation: 4
1. Bishop Ambrose Jones (son of Lewis Jones); died on 15 Dec 1678; was buried in St. Andrew's, Dublin. Notes:
Ambrose Jones was a Welsh-Irish cleric who served as Anglican Bishop of Kildare 1667-8. He was from a prominent family - his Oxford-educated father, Lewis Jones, served as Anglican Bishop of Killaloe, his oldest brother Henry Jones was Anglican Bishop of Clogher and later Meath, and his brothers Theophilus Jones, Oliver Jones, and Michael Jones were soldiers and politicians.
Ambrose Jones was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, earning a Doctorate in divinity, and took up his father's post as prebend of Emly in February 1637/8. He later held church office as treasurer (1639) and precentor (1641) of Limerick, archdeacon of Meath (Feb. 1660/1), rector of Castletown, Meath (1665) and finally bishop of Kildare and prebend of Maynooth in 1667.
As bishop he made efforts to recover property that had been alienated from the see.
In May - June 1642 he was besieged with his father, Bishop Lewis Jones, and others in King John's Castle, Limerick by Irish forces; he was one of the representatives who negotiated the castle's surrender, and a surviving diary of the siege has been attributed to him.
2. 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:
- 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.
- 1. 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: 3
4. 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]
5. 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
- 2. Lewis Jones was born about 1542 in Merionethshire, Wales; died on 2 Nov 1646 in Dublin, Ireland.
Generation: 4
8. Thomas Jones Thomas + Ellen Wynn. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
9. Ellen Wynn (daughter of Robert Wynn). Children:
- 4. Colonel John Jones was born about 1595 in Maes-y-Garnedd, Merionethshire, Wales; died on 17 Oct 1660.
10. Robert Cromwell was born about 1575 (son of Sir Henry Cromwell, of Hinchinbrooke and Joan Warren); died in 1617. Robert + Elizabeth Steward. Elizabeth (daughter of William Steward, of Ely) was born about 1575; died in 1654. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
11. Elizabeth Steward was born about 1575 (daughter of William Steward, of Ely); died in 1654. Children:
- Joan Cromwell was born in 1592; and died.
- Elizabeth Cromwell was born in 1593; died in 1672.
- Henry Cromwell was born in 1595; and died.
- 5. Catherine Henrietta Cromwell was born in 1596 in Huntingdon on the Ouse; was christened on 7 Feb 1596; and died.
- Oliver Cromwell was born on 25 Apr 1599 in parish of St John, Huntingdon; died on 3 Sep 1658 in Whitehall, London.
- Margaret Cromwell was born in 1601; and died.
- Anne Cromwell was born in 1603; died in 1643.
- Jane Cromwell was born in 1606; died in 1656.
- Robert Cromwell was born in 1609; died in 1609.
- Robina Cromwell was born about 1610; and died.