Sketch Jones Smith Tree

Geelong Immigrants 1857

Immigration Henry and Mary Jones (details from the Assisted Immigration Register)

Family Name

Given Name

Age

Mth

Yr

Ship

Book

Page

Origin

Relig

Occup

Lit’cy

Comment

Jones

Henry

24

JUN

1857

BLACK EAGLE

12

342

Stafford

CofE

Labourer

Read only

Enagaged as labourer in Geelong at 8/ - per day

Jones

Mary

23

JUN

1857

BLACK EAGLE

12

342

Stafford

CofE

Read and Write

Death Certificate
Mary Jones nee Smith

Mary Smiths death certificate 1907 for 1891 identifies the following information:

Death:             29/3/1891, Belmont                                

Burial:             31/3/1891 Eastern Cemetery Geelong

Religion:         RC                                                              

Emigration:    34 years in Victoria (1857)

Married:          at 19 yrs to Henry Jones Staffordshire Parents Bernard and Mary Smith

Children:           Sarah Ann 34 ½ , William 31, Thomas dec’d, Mary 27, Henry 24, George 21 ½ , Robert 19 ½

Death is recorded as being due to rheumatic inflammation of all joints and exhaustion.

Marriage Certificate
Henry Jones – Susan Lerich

According to the Index to Births, Deaths and Marriages, Henry Jones married Mary Ann Susan Lerich in 1895 (reg number 4039).  Details are as follows:

Date:                 17/7/1895, Lonsdale St Melbourne

Minister:           A R Edgar Wesleyan Minister

Married:            Henry Jones, 54 , Gentleman of Belmont Geelong (widower 1891) and Mary Ann Susan Lerich 50, nee Gooch Housekeeper of Belmont Geelong (widow 1869)

Children            Henry six alive and 2 deceased, Mary Ann Susan 1 deceased.

Parents              William Jones (occupation moulder) and Calliann Webb (writing very hard to read).  George Gooch and Sarah West

Witness:            John Robert Tyrell , Mrs E H Tyrell

JH Lerich recorded in the Argus as being insolvent 30 April 1866.

Henry Jones Death

Henry’s death certificate 5489 for 1910 identifies the following information:

Death:               22/6/1910 Belmont 76 years

Occupation:      Old Aged Pensioner

Burial:               27/6/1910 Eastern Cemetery Geelong

Emigration:       Born England 53 years in Victoria (1857)

Married:            1^st marriage England at 20 years to Mary Smith, 2^nd marriage at 66 years to given name not given Lerich.

Parents              unknown

Children:           1^st marriage Sarah 53  William 50 ,Thomas dec’d, Mary 48, Henry 46, George 44, Robert 42

                         2^nd marriage no issue

Death is recorded as being due to old age, heart failure 7years.  Dr F Moreton last treated 5/6/1910.

Death Certificate
Mary Ann Susan Jones nee Lerich

Mary Ann Susan’s death certificate 1254 for 1923 identifies the following information:

Death:             1920, Collingwood                                  

Burial:            

Religion:                                                                              

Emigration:   

Father:           George Gooch                                           
 Mother:         Lucy West

Age:               80                                                                

Married:        

Birthplace:     London                                                      

Children:        .

Mary Ann Susan Gooch is recorded as marrying Julius Hermann Lerich 1864 in Victoria registration number 1049.  Julie Hermann Lerich is recorded as dying 1867 in Victoria registration number 5252, born in Silesia, father Gottlieb Lerich, mother Johanna Hoeba.

Children of Mary Smith and Henry Jones

Name	Birth	Other details	Death	Other details
Mary	Pre 1857	Information from Sarah Ann’s birth certificate	Pre 1857
Sarah Ann	30/6/1857, Belmont birth certificate 10621	Father identified as Gardiner.  Siblings: Mary deceased.	1940 death certificate 17460 age 84 years	Index for Births, Deaths and Marriages identifies the following information for Sarah Ann Jones: Married: William Laurence McInnes Children: Mary Agnes, William Joseph, Norman Joseph, Emily Josine b.1873 certificate d. 1923 certificate 1705
William James	1860, Belmont birth certificate 3069		8/8/1942, 29 Eastham St North Fitzroy, death  certificate 8346 age 83 years	Died of senility, 5 years asthenia 5 years, father Henry Jones Contractor Married Emily Bonnett Roman Catholic Children: George Walter 52, Henry Francis 50, Robert Harold 48, Albert Charles dec’d, William James 45, Alice Mary 43, Cecilia 39.
Thomas	1862, birth certificate 14488		1857 death  certificate 6685	8 months
Mary Elizabeth	1/7/1863, Belmont birth certificate 14268	Father identified as Gardiner.  Siblings: Mary deceased, Sarah Ann 6 ½ William 3 2/3, Thomas deceased.	1927, death certificate 11014 aged 64 years
Henry	1866, Belmont birth certificate 8301		About 10/9/1935 Mornington Rd Frankston, death certificate 16102 aged 69 yrs	Chronic nephritis, fibroid mycarditis, heart failure, buried Springvale 11/9/35.  Not married, no issue.
George Matthew	1869, birth certificate details not located	Identified on mother’s death certificate but I can’t find it on BDM index.	7/8/1936 , 20 Eastham St North Fitzroy, death certificate 6978, aged 66	Died of cerebral haemorrhage 2 weeks, respiratory failure, father Henry Jones Contractor.  Not married 46 years in Vic, 20 years in Qld.
Robert	11/2/1871 Belmont, birth certificate 2778	Father’s occupation Gardiner and as informant made his mark X. Siblings: Mary deceased, Sarah 13, William 9, Thomas deceased, Mary 6, Henry 4.	Death certificate details not located

Children of William James Jones and Emily Bonnet

George Walter 52, b circa 1890, d. 1955, certificate 4110.

Henry Francis 50, b circa 1892, d. 1960, certificate 25048

Robert Harold 48, b circa 1894, d. 1951, certificate 21548

Albert Charles dec’d,

William James 45, b circa 1897, d. 1955 certificate 11659

Alice Mary 43, b circa 1899, d. certificate not located

Cecilia 39, b circa 1903, d. certificate not located

Children of William McInnes and Sarah Ann McInnes nee Jones

Surname: MCINNES Given Names: Henry Lawrence Father: William Mother: Ann JONES Death Place: GEEL Age: 71 Year: 1957 Reg Number: 19698 Event: D

Surname: MCINNES Given Names: Emily Josine Father: Mcinnes Wm Laurence Mother: Sarah Anne  JONES Death Place: GEELONG Age: 33 Year: 1923 Reg Number: 1705 Event: D

Surname: MCINNES Given Names: Norman Joseph Father: William Lawr Mother: Sarah Ann  JONES Death Place: CAMP Age: 59 Year: 1956 Reg Number: 20342 Event: D

Surname: MCINNES Given Names: Mary Agnes Father: William Lawr Mother: Sara Ann  JONES Death Place: GEEL Age: 83 Year: 1963 Reg Number: 1233 Event: D

Surname: MCINNES Given Names: Wm Jos Father: Mcinnes Wm Laurence Mother: Sarah Ann  JONES Death Place: GEELONG Age: 63 Year: 1945 Reg Number: 22654 Event: D

Mary Elizabeth Hindmarsh (nee Jones 1920s)

Children of Mary Elizabeth - see my Blog http://hindmarsh-family.blogspot.com.au/

This is either a Hindmarsh or Jones Family Group
Older seated women is either Mary Jones (nee Smith) or
Ann Hindmarsh (nee Hennessey)

Olive Hindmarsh c.1905

Guesses and Memories

Olive Hindmarsh (whose mother was Mary Elizabeth Hindmarsh nee Jones) occassionally mentioned her childhood:





• Olive always believed her Grandfather (Henry Jones) was a wealthy man. She understood that just before he died he was converted to Roman Catholicism by relatives and persuaded to leave his money to the church and the RC relatives, even though Olive’s mother was a struggling widow. (according to records, Henry Jones was RC). Was this a confused childhood memory of her grandfather's marriage to his housekeeper?
• Understood that he had made his money as a "Contractor" to the government and the he went bust in the 1890s depression.  She had a small note book with calculations that she believed was his.
• Going with her mother and elder sister to see a relative (Jones?). To her the house was grand with cast iron gates. Her mother had to enter by the side door (servants entrance). The two girls were left outside. Olive remembered eating ants while waiting. 
• Alwasy believed that two uncles were bachelors and wool classers by trade (were these her mothers brothers?)


Some questions of little consequence and most likely impossible to answer:
Immmigration records record Henry and Mary as being Cof E, but later records have them as RC.  Adult conversion or incorrect information on the immigration record?
Henry Jones marries his housekeeper, did much of his remaining wealth go to the second wife - hence the trip of Olive Hindmarsh to the house with the iron gates
Henry Jones jnr - found dead by the side of the road - for some days...
Robert Jones.  No Victorian death record that I could find. Woolclassers often travelled to NSW for work, his death record could be there