I was born a Jones with Welsh grandparentage, and married a McKenna with Irish roots.  Interspersed with English, Irish and German lines, the family origins are varied. They cover Durham, Lancashire, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Yorkshire, Glamorgan, Monmouthshire and County Tyrone, Northern Ireland (NI).

The Jones's trace back to Glamorgan, but were living in Blaina, Monmouthshire at the time of the 1861 Census.  They moved to Middlesbrough, when the Steel Industry was in its infancy in the 1870's.

County Tyrone, Northern Ireland was the base for the McKenna line, who like the Jones's found themselves in Middlesbrough in the 1880's, also working in the Steel Industry.

Penryn Jones married Freda Lack, whose family originated from Yardley Hastings in Northamptonshire, where a large number of Lacks still live to the present day.

John McKenna married Isabella Dixon, whose grandparents have been traced back to the Newcastle-upon-Tyne area.

The four main ancestoral lines on this site are:-

DIXON, JONES, LACK , McKENNA.

You can reach us at our e-mail address: [ivorjones@ivorrjones.co.uk].

Special thanks go to Judith Beale, Bernard Conway and Harry Nicholson for supplying me with extensive research background on the Battison, Blenkinsop and Horsley names.

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