G6: David Jones 1834-1893 & Rachel Ellen Jones
David Jones was born in 1834 in Brongwyn, Cardiganshire, Wales. He was the first child of Evan Jones (1781) & Jemima Davies.
Brongwyn is a parish and small village in the county of Cardigan, two and a half miles north-west of Newcastle in Emlyn terminal station on the branch from Pencader of the Great Western railway, 6 ¾ south-east by east from Cardigan, 22 from Lampeter and 284 from London, in the hundred of Troed-yr-aur, petty seasonal division of Penrhiwpal, county court district and union of Newcastle in Emlyn, and in the rural deanery of Sub-Aeron, archdeaconry of Cardigan and diocese of St. David’s. The church of St. Mary is an ancient building of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, porch and tower containing one bell. The church affords 74 sittings. The register dates from the year 1790. The soil is slatey. Chief crops are wheat and potatoes and some land under pasture.
David married Rachel Ellen Jones on November 11, 1858, in Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire, Wales. Rachel Ellen Jones was born in 1831 in Brongwyn, Cardiganshire, Wales, to Esther Jones and John Jones.

They had seven children in 21 years, John Jones 1859-1927; Mary Jones 1860-1933; Ann Jones 1862-1929; Esther Hetty Jones 1863-1933; Sarah Elizabeth Jones 1865 ; Margaret Jones 1873 and David Samuel Jones 1878-1941.
David died on April 25, 1893, at the age of 59. Rachel died on April 4, 1901, at the age of 70.