Jonas
Foot
Junior
Born in Portland Head, New South Wales (Australia)
Ancestors 
Son of Jonas Foot
and Mary Ann (Arndell) Foot
Brother of
Mary Ann (Foot) Carpenter, William Richard (Foote) Foot, Samuel John (Foote) Foot, Rebecca Jane (Foote) Foot, Robert Foot, Jemima Sophia Foot, Thomas Arndell Foot, George Foot, James Foot and Sarah Jane (Foot) Morris
Husband of
Fanny Jane (Boyce) Foot
— married
5 Feb 1879 in Raymond Terrace, New South Wales (Australia)
Descendants 
Father of
Florence Gertrude Foot, Isabel (Foote) Wilson, Florence Alberta (Foot) Sketchley, Stanley James Foot, Ruby Ednah (Foot) McPherson, Vera Victoria (Foot) Adams, Rebecca Jane (Foot) Wilson and Walter George Foot
Died
at age 59
in Seaham, New South Wales (Australia)
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Biography
Jonas Foot was born on 26th April 1838 in Portland Head, New South Wales (Australia), the son of Mary Ann Foot and Jonas Foot. [1]
Jonas was a farmer
He was a farmer, at the front (as was his father also) pushing for a reduction in transport costs for their produce at a community meeting in 1867. [2]
Aged 41 years, Jonas married Fanny Jane Boyce on 5th February 1879 in Raymond Terrace, New South Wales. [3] They had six daughters and two sons, losing one of each in infancy (the first and last-born):
- Florence Gertrude (1879-80), infant mortality
- Isabel (1881-?), married surname Wilson
- Florence Albreta (1882-1944), married surname Sketchley
- Stanley James (1883-1963)
- Ruby Ednah (1885-1973), married surname McPherson
- Vera Victoria (1887-1966), married surname Adams
- Rebecca Jane (1889-1983), [4] married surname Wilson
- Walter George Foot (1891-91), infant mortality
"Suffering an incurable malady, and was to have gone to the hospital for incurables", Jonas died by hanging himself on 17th December 1897 in Seaham, New South Wales. He was aged 59 years. [5][6][7]
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| Jonas and Fanny Foot, headstone |
Sources
- ↑ New South Wales Birth Index #1467/1838 V18381467 22
- ↑ Article on involvement in public meeting to arrange freight service by boat, The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser, Tuesday 2 Apr 1867
- ↑ New South Wales Marriage Index #4609/1879; name incorrectly listed as Fort
- ↑ New South Wales Death Index #104331/1983
- ↑ New South Wales Death Index #13325/1897
- ↑ Article on suicide of Jonas, SMH, Monday 20 December 1897
- ↑ Link to headstone photo and info
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jonas by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jonas by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Andy Foot
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 700 markers, haplogroup R-S5246, Ancestry member andyfoot, FTDNA kit #B600124, MitoYDNA ID T13214 [compare]
- Karen Johnson :
Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test
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~1.56%
Linda (Taylor) Renolds :
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~1.56%
~6.25%
Kerry Douglas :
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~1.56%
Marg (Oakhill) Hamilton :
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~1.56%
~12.50%
William Blundell :
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-
~0.78%
M (Noon) Newman :
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~0.39%
~1.56%
Jill (McMillan) Mills :
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~0.39%
Noel Cavanough :
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~0.39%
~1.56%
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~0.39%
Eric Broome :
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~0.39%
Bill Huxley :
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~0.39%
Kaye (White) Tucker :
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~0.39%
Jennifer (Cavanough) Steele :
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