The Jones Family Treehouse's job is to shake the leaves and branches of our family tree. It consists of over 3000 family members that have touched it in some way or another over the generations. You start out with a small twig, which is you, then attach it to a branch which is your personal family, and as you continue, suddenly you have this huge tree, like a Douglas Fir.
On my maternal side, we have the Jones's, obviously because I am a Jones, that's the name I was born and raised as, and went back to using after my marriage ended. This family of Jones originated in Wales, and came to Canada in the early 1800's when a Joseph Jones was sent here as part of the British Militia and settled in South Burgess Township, Leeds County, Ontario. The primary families that married into the Jones family to get to 'my' particular line were the Martins of Wexford Ireland, the Coads (Codd or Code) of Wicklow Ireland, the Dacks (Daggs) from Lord Fitzwilliam's estate who he assisted to emigrate, the Armstrongs from Ireland (not sure where in Ireland yet), and the United Empire Loyalist families of the Harpers (Hauper/Hopper) who were in New York Colony, the Crowders who were in Virginia Colony, the Rices who were in Pennsylvania Colony and the Steinburgs who were in New York Colony. All four United Empire Loyalist families listed themselves to be of German nationality on the census reports. So to sum it up, on my maternal side, I am Irish, German and Welsh.
On my paternal side, we have the Seymours who came into Ontario from Quebec, the Leveres who were also from Quebec, the Crowders (again), the Campbells, the Duffields (Liverpool England), the Elbares and the Wallisers (Wallace). The United Empire Loyalists on this side were the Campbells, the Elbares and the Wallisers all from New York Colony. Now, as for the Crowders on this side of the family, the jury is out on whether they were Loyalists or not. The Charles Crowder that it originates with is placed within the Virginia Colony Crowders by many people, however, I am loathe to place him there as the death certificate that I found for him states he was born in Germany. Also, he was in Mountain Township in Dundas County, where most of the other Crowders of the time period were in Osnabruck Township in Stormont County, not all that far apart in todays traveling time, but a fair distance in the early 1800s as he married Susannah Walliser on August 16th 1818 in Williamsburg Dundas, and most of their offspring remained in Mountain Township in Dundas (around Inkerman) or went into Edwardsburg Township in Grenville (around what is now Cardinal, Ontario). In summary, on my paternal side, I am French, German, English and Scottish.
The main geographical areas that 'most' of the family imigrated upon arrival to Canada are the Counties of Stormont, Glengarry, Dundas, Leeds, Grenville, and Lanark in Eastern Ontario. There are a few in other areas, such as Algoma, many parts of the U.S.A., and Western Canada, but this primarily occurred when their family emigrated out of Eastern Ontario.
There are many other common names within these pages, large families that are 2nd or 3rd or maybe even 4th cousins, such as the Patterson's, the Singleton's, the Lemax's, the Schwerdfeger's, the Dillabough's, and more. A surname search using Legacy tree builder compiles almost 1000 different surnames that intersect at some point.
You may wonder why the Gardiner family tree is here, there is no blood tie. However, it was important to me to include them as a side bar. When I was 3 years old, a William Raymond Gardiner of R.R.#3 North Augusta became my 'legal guardian', and was a father figure to me, so for personal reasons, I care to cite him and his family of Gardiners, Baldwins and Kinches as an integral part of my family. You don't have to give birth to a child to be a hero and a father to, and that's his place in my life.
The Photo Gallery is self-explanatory. I've attempted to sort it out to direct ancestor, example Eliza Jane Coad married Norman Jones, I've placed Eliza Jane in the Coad gallery.
Links & Thank You's is where I've placed the people and websites that have been of the greatest assistance in my quest to put this all together.
And the adventure continues...let's go back in time, enjoy!