Mary (Jones) Lloyd (1644 - 1683)

Born 1644 in Welshpool (Y Trallwng), Montgomeryshire, Wales

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Lloyd — married 9 Sep 1665 (to 1683) in Shropshire, Wales

Descendants

Died Nov 1683 at about age 39 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., English Colony of Pennsylvania

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Biography

Mary was a Friend (Quaker)

Mary Jones was born in 1644 in Welshpool (Y Trallwng), Montgomeryshire, Wales. According to Burke's "Landed Gentry of England," she was the daughter of Colonel Roger Jones, Governor of Dublin in the reign of James II, who defeated the Marquis of Ormond in 1649. However, in the "Collection of Memorials" she is said to have been the daughter of Gilbert Jones, of Welshpool, Wales. A problem arises from the fact that the Colonel Jones who routed the Marquis of Ormond at Rathmines, near Dublin in 1649 had the Christian name, according to both Leland and Plowden, of Michael, not Gilbert or Roger. More importantly, Colonel Michael Jones' family had emigrated from Wales to Ireland in the 16th Century; they were from Merionthshire, not Montgomeryshire, where Welshpool, widely-acknowledged as Mary Jone's birthplace, is located.^[1]

Other family genealogists have, like the authors of the "Memorials," concluded that Mary Jones was the daughter of Gilbert Jones, Jr., born in 1610 in Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, Wales. His family were landowners from North Wales and neighboring Shropshire, England.^[2] Gilbert married Mary Littleton of Shropshire in 1635. Their daughter, Mary Jones, was born in Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, Wales, in 1644.^[3]

Mary Jones became "convicted" of the truth of the "primitive Christian" doctrine espoused by Rev. George Fox, who preached across Wales in the 1650s. She joined the Society of Friends (Quakers) either with her parents or at 18 years old. Apparently the closest Monthly Meeting to Welshpool ((Quakers were already being persecuted as "unbelievers" and "traitors" (because they refused to swear allegiance to either the English Monarchy or Commonwealth)) was in neighboring Shropshire, where her mother came from. It was there that, on September 9, 1665 she married Thomas Lloyd, scion of a wealthy landed-gentry Welsh family who claimed descent from the medieval Princes of Powys.^[4]

Mary (Jones) Lloyd and Thomas Lloyd had 11 children together:^[5]

1. Hannah LLOYD b: 21 Sep 1666 in Dolobran, Montgomeryshire, Wales
2. Rachel LLOYD b: 20 Jan 1667 in Dolobran, Montgomeryshire, Wales
3. Robert LLOYD b: 14 Jan 1669 in Llanwddyn, Montgomeryshire, Wales
4. Mordecai LLOYD b: 7 Dec 1669 in Dolobran, Montgomeryshire, Wales
5. John LLOYD b: 3 Feb 1671 in Dolobran, Montgomeryshire, Wales
6. Mary LLOYD b: 27 March 1674 in Dolobran, Montgomeryshire, Wales
7. Thomas LLOYD b: 15 Sep 1675 in Dolobran, , Montgomeryshire, England
8. Elizabeth LLOYD b: 1 Mar 1677 in Dolobran, Montgomeryshire, Wales
9. Margaret LLOYD b: 5 Feb 1679 in Dolobran, Montgomeryshire, Wales
10. Deborah LLOYD b: 1 Mar 1682 in Dolobran, Montgomeryshire, Wales
11. Samuel LLOYD b: 1683 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Throughout their married life in Wales, Thomas Lloyd was persecuted for his Quaker beliefs. He was fined and imprisoned in Welshpool several times between 1664 and 1675. A highly-educated (Oxford graduate) and well-connected man, he was friends with William Penn and when the latter was granted the Proprietorship of the new Quaker-friendly colony of Pennsylvania, Thomas Lloyd determined to emigrate there with his family. They sailed in 1683 and after an arduous 8-week voyage arrived safely in Philadelphia. Mary Lloyd was pregnant with her 11th child during the crossing and gave birth to Samuel Lloyd shortly after they landed. Unfortunately, the trip and childbirth were too much for her physical health and she died in November 1683. Little Samuel didn't survive either. They were the first to be buried at the new Quaker cemetery in downtown Philadelphia; William Penn is said to have spoken Mary's eulogy at her burial there. Thomas Lloyd survived another 11 years, being a leading member of both the government and society of the new colony. He remarried to widow Patience (Gardiner) Story who helped him raise his children, aged 2 to 18 years old. They had no issue together. ^[6]

Data from the knox17032011.ged:

Name: Mary /JONES/ ^[7][8][9]

[Married] Name: Mary /LLOYD/

Birth Date: ABT 1644 - Place: Wales^[10]

Marriage Date: 09 SEP 1665 - Place: Wales^[11]

Husband: Thomas Lloyd

Wife: Mary Jones

Child: Hannah Lloyd

Child: Rachel Lloyd

Child: Mordecai Lloyd

Child: John Lloyd

Child: Mary Lloyd

Child: Thomas Lloyd

Child: Elizabeth Lloyd

Child: Deborah Lloyd

Child: Margaret Lloyd

Child: Samuel Lloyd

Sources

1. ↑ Michael Jones on Wikipedia.
2. ↑ Dowling Family Genealogy - Gilbert Jones. See "pedigree" on this site.
3. ↑ [ http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dowfam3&id=I333518 Dowling Family Genealogy - Mary Littleton] and also Whitten-Saunders-Crawford-Kelly Family Tree - Mary Jones. Gives a birth-date as 17 Feb 1640 but this is her husband's birth-date, not Mary's.
4. ↑ Int'l Genealogical Index, Search performed using PAF Insight on 23 Dec 2006. Text: "Thomas 'Deputy Governor of Pennsylvania' Lloyd; Male; Birth: 17 FEB 1640 Dolobran, Montgomery, Wales; Death: 10 SEP 1694 , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Spouse: Mary Jones; Marriage: 09 SEP 1665 Friends Meeting, , Shropshire, England." Cited on: Lonand T.Whisler Tree - Mary Jones. This site also states her father was "Roger Jones" and that Mary was Christened in 1648 at St. Olave's, Southwark, Surrey; Jones was a very common name and this is probably a different family. Surrey is very far from Wales and eight years is unusually long between birth and baptism, especially at that time.
5. ↑ Whitten-Saunders-Crawford-Kelly Family Tree - Mary Jones
6. ↑ "Genealogical Notes Relating to the Families of Lloyd, Pemberton, Hutchinson, Hudson, and Parke," by Thomas Allen Glenn; privately printed: Philadelphia, 1896.
7. ↑ Source: #S2
8. ↑ Source: #S3
9. ↑ Source: #S4
10. ↑ Source: #S4
11. ↑ Source: #S4

• Royal Ancestry, by D. Richardson, Vol. III, p. 593.
• Find A Grave Memorial# 63347574 - Mary Lloyd
• Source: S2 Pedigree Resource File CD 49: (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 2002)
• Source: S3 Ancestral File (TM): The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Published: June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998 Repository: #R1 Repository: R1
• Source: S4 hofundssonAnces.ged Repository: #R1
• Source: S495 Ancestral File Number

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Jones-3856 was created on March 18, 2011 through the import of knox17032011.ged.

• WikiTree profile Jones-6222 was created through the import of FAMILY 6162011.GED on June 20, 2011 by Michael Stephenson. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Michael and others.

• Thank you to Erin Breen for rejecting proposed matches with over 25 other profiles for a "Mary Jones" on WikiTree on July 23, 2012.

• Thank you to Chet Snow who researched this profile, wrote the biographical sketch and added sources, October 2, 2015.