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  rorkesdriftvc.com - Pte. William Jones
At this stage, I decided it pertinent to research all the branches of alleged descendants of William Jones VC and to investigate reports that there were 2 later children born to William Jones VC and Elizabeth Frodsham, in a 'rose-coloured-spectacles' attempt to re-unite all the descendants of William Jones VC.
Kathryn Carpenter was married to William Jones, the son of the Elizabeth Goddard and 593 Private William Jones marriage.
The legacy of that line, the line of William Jones junior, remains in the looks of myself, brother and father, and is the only clue that remains as to the eventual whereabouts of the son born of 593 Private William Jones VC and the ill-fated Elizabeth Goddard.
www.rorkesdriftvc.com /vc/tony_jones_author.htm   (3013 words)

  
 rorkesdriftvc.com - Pte. William Jones
William and Elizabeth were married on 25th July 1875 and the marriage certificate shows that 593 Pte William Jones's father, William Jones Snr, is now quoted as deceased; William Jones Snr, was thought to have died at some time prior to 1867.The marriage took place at The Wesleyan Methodist Church, Farnham, Aldershot, Surrey.
William Jones, who we shall now refer to as 593 junior, was born to 593 Pte William Jones and his wife Elizabeth on the 18th November 1876,at Western Heights, Hougham, Dover, County of Kent.
William Jones, 593 jnr's birthplace is misspelled as 'Dovver Barracks'.
www.rorkesdriftvc.com /vc/tony_jones_doc.htm   (4556 words)

  
 Indo-European Languages - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Even on these premises the argument was unsound, for the same authority also recorded a confusion of tongues at Babel, so that it was unreasonable to expect that languages thus violently metamorphosed could be referred so easily at a later period to the same original.
The first person to indicate very briefly the existence of the Indo-European family, though he gave it no distinctive name, was Sir William Jones in his address to the Bengal Oriental Society in 1786.
Unfortunately Sir William Jones's views as to the relationship of the languages were not adopted for many years by later investigators.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Indo-European_Languages   (8440 words)

  
 Photo Gallery
William and Thomas Jones, brothers and children of the same father, William Jones Snr, were born 12 years apart, and whilst Thomas remained in Wales to be brought up by his elder sisters, William Jones was born in Bristol, then shortly moved to Evesham in Worcestershire.
This would be the very first time (according to the GRO indexes) that 593 Private William Jones VC was to be represented in public by proven blood descendants, as depicted by the previous DNA tests that both branches had been involved in.
William Jones VC died in 1913.It had been a long wait for him to see this date, it had been a long time coming.
www.zuluwar-usuthu.com /Gallery.html   (483 words)

  
 Jones Realty
Jones is a common family name that comes from the term 'Son of John' or 'Son of Joan' but can also be attributed to the name 'Jonah' – a name of Icelandic origins suggesting a Viking connection.
Jones, was a posthumous British recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Jones was born in Putney to a wealthy family, and attended Eton College.
www.artistbooking.com /trips/117/jones-realty.html   (1221 words)

  
 Jones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jones is a common family name that comes from the term 'Son of John' but can also be attributed to the name 'Jonah.
Jones Fracture, a fracture of the fifth metatarsal of the foot
The Jones Jones Jones event was attended by rock singer and ex-Bond girl Grace Jones, opera singers Dame Gwyneth Jones and Gwyn Hughes Jones and was presented by Blue Peter presenter Gethin Jones and former S4C presenter Gwenllian Jones, the latter having travelled especially from Sydney, Australia.
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 Charles Jones Australian Politician   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Commonly known as "Charlie", C.K. Jones was born in Newcastle, NSW and was educated at Cooks Hill High School to the equivalent of the seventh grade.
Charlie Jones was commissioned as a minister with the election of the Whitlam Government in 1972 and served as the Minister for Transport until that government was dismissed on November 11 1975.During this period, Mr Jones attempted to improve the co-ordination of Australia's transport systems.
Mr Jones proposed a model urban train carriage that could be used in the train systems of the major capitals and also attempted to inaugerate an Inter-state Commission as proposed by Section 101 of the Australian Constitution.
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 William Jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Jones is a common name, especially in Wales, and there have been several well-known individuals of this name, including:
Sir William Jones (optician) (1763-1831), an English optician.
William Jones (wrestler), a professional wrestler who also served in the US military.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Jones   (294 words)

  
 :: What Happened After??? ::
Another example was a certain "Sgt JONES VC" who was at the training camp in Pochefstroom and in contemporary papers of the time is shown quite clearly as being at Rorke's Drift and winning a VC there.
Pte William JONES VC was seen towards the end of his life wandering the streets of Manchester with his granddaughter in his arms to protect her from the Zulu, quite obviously suffering from the pangs of that terrible day.
Fred HITCH VC on the other hand was known to have been quiet and unobtrusive when he lived the remainder of his life out in Chiswick, London and never once boasted that he won this highest honour.
www.genealogyworld.net /azwar/what.html   (1030 words)

  
 WE are the Joneses
Commander Jones was badly wounded in the leg, but with the help of three surviving seamen he kept the midships gun in action until he was hit by a shell which took off his leg.
On 3 September 1916 at Guillemont, France, the platoon to which Sergeant Jones belonged was ordered to a forward position and during the advance came under heavy machine-gun fire, the officer being killed and the platoon suffering a great many casualties.
Colonel Jones and his reconnaissance party managed to gain the top of a recently secured re-entrant, but the enemy continued to pour fire on the battalion advance which was in danger of faltering.
homepage.ntlworld.com /we.thejoneses/vc.htm   (751 words)

  
 rorkesdriftvc.com - Pte. William Jones
Incidentally in the same graveyard, Section M, grave 1826, is the grave of George Stringer VC, won on 8 March 1916 in Mesopotamia.
There are plaques to the two VCs on the outside of the larger of the two churches.
Defending the post hospital to the last, he and Robert Jones managed to remove six men to safety, the seventh being killed.
www.rorkesdriftvc.com /vc/jones2.htm   (334 words)

  
 FIRST AMENDED ACTION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
William Jones 10000 Mount High Blvd. Nowhere, California SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF CALAMITY William Jones) CASE NO. ________) Plaintiff,) FIRST AMENDED ACTION) OF TRESPASS, AND v.
William Jones (hereinafter "Plaintiff") is one of the people of California, and in this court of record complains of Mary Smith (hereinafter "Defendant-A"), Robert Smith (hereinafter "Defendant-B"), and State of California (hereinafter "Defendant-C"), who are each summoned to answer the said Plaintiff in a plea of trespass and trespass on the case, to wit:
On October 8, 1997, in the city of Disruption, County of Calamity, California, Plaintiff William Jones duly travels on a bicycle eastward on Highland.
www.chrononhotonthologos.com /lawnotes/example/action2.htm   (1829 words)

  
 William Jones (VC) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Jones (1839 - 15 April 1913) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
On 22/23 January 1879 at Rorke's Drift, Natal, South Africa, Private William Jones and another man (Robert Jones) defended one of the wards in the hospital to the last, until six out of the seven patients had been removed.
The seventh was delirious and although they managed to dress him, they could not induce him to move and when they returned to carry him away he was being stabbed to death in his bed.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Jones_(VC)   (256 words)

  
 Catherine Zeta-Jones - Avoo - Ask Us A Question - Catherine Zeta-Jones (born 25 September 1969) is an Academy ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Born Catherine Jones, in Treboeth, in the parish of Llangyfelach, a working class area of Swansea, West Glamorgan in Wales.
She is the middle of three children born to Dai Jones, a Welsh sweet factory owner, and Patricia Fair who hails from an Irish Catholic family.
Her elder brother, David A. Jones (also known as Cameron Jones), is Vice President of the film company, Initial Entertainment.
www.electronicdevicesiworld.com /wiki3-Catherine_Zeta-Jones   (1453 words)

  
 War Stories from Blackwood's and The Strand: Britain's Soldiers, Recruitment, and the Victoria Cross
As he finishes his narrative, Jones patriotically asserts that his "thought was only to fight as an English soldier ought to for his most gracious Sovereign Queen and for the benefit of old England" (291).  Heroism becomes a reflection of duty, of duty to the Queen and to "old England."
As with the illustration of Robert Jones, the sketch shows William Jones with his rifle in hand, bayoneting the nearest Zulu attacking the door.  In this representation of Rorke's Drift, however, the injured who are saved by Jones's valiant acts are positioned on either side of him.
In both the VC narratives and The Hound of the Baskervilles, heroism and valor are conjoined most emphatically in the rescue of a fallen comrade.
www.lib.utulsa.edu /speccoll/bibliographies/sherlockholmes/Watson'sBrothers-in-arms.htm   (1116 words)

  
 Venture Capital in Florida's Great Northwest in Northwest Florida - Okaloosa - Walton - Bay - Escambia - Santa Rosa
Aside from the major VC markets in the large cities and technological hubs there are some very strong areas of VC in Florida.
Additional components of the infrastructure include identifying potential VC investors in the area that are cognizant of the area’s demographics and technical base.
His recommendation for whatever approach is taken to create the "culture" is a refrain heard often in the VC circles, "Due Diligence!" To reorient the thinking of the investment community for our region we will need to exercise due diligence in a concerted effort.
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 Zulu and VCs in The AnswerBank: Media
The Jones I am talking about is Sgt Jones, WIlliam I think who is buried in a paupers grave in Philllips Park Cemetery Manchester just across from the Velodrome and died 1913
There is a William Jones in the film, but he has the rank of Private.
I believe Sgt. Jones may have been amalgamated with a few other people to become the character of Private Henry Hook, played by James Booth in the film, who was one of the two main characters in the infirmary scenes.
www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Media/Question76473.html   (491 words)

  
 Robert Jones VC
William Jones Vc and Robert Jones VC of the 2nd Battalion 24th regiment, South Wales Borderes.
the seventh, sergeant Maxwell being delirious, refused to be helped, and on Robert Jones re turning to take him by force he found him being stabbed by the Zulus in his bed, Robert Jones died in 1898 in Peterchurch Herefordshire.
The seventh, Sergeant Maxwell, being delirious, refused to be helped, and on Robert Jones returning to take him by force he found him being stabbed by the Zulus on his bed.
www.zuluwar.com /jones_vc.htm   (687 words)

  
 Medal of Honor
On October 29, 1963, in what might otherwise have been his final combat mission, Versace was helping lead a group of civilian irregulars in an attack on a Viet Cong command post in Thoi Binh district, An Xuyen province.
He stood upright and fired at enemy positions in the dense vegetation along the river to cover the hurt men.
Once they were out, he returned to his position, refused medical attention and joined another Howitzer crew that drove out the VC.
home.comcast.net /~jbenner411/medal_honor.htm   (2226 words)

  
 John Kasey Papers
Wrote letter to William H. Tate, received one from brother William Kasey and one from lawyer Dabney re Kasey v.
William Stockton, Daniel W. Williams, Preston Bennett, John Bernard, Benjamin Bernard, Board family, William Ray.
William Yates, Uncle Thomas Kasey, John C. Meador, William Holley, father Alexander Kasey, Christopher Bewley.
www.stithvalley.com /bgspring/kasey/kaseydiary.htm   (2212 words)

  
 DNA & Ancestry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jones nephews or cousins of 593,as they will 'all' be in possession of the markers that
Jones VC's son',via many written and oral accounts that pepper the history of the story of the
and with the presence of William Jones VC as a lodger in the Frodsham household at the
www.zuluwar-usuthu.com /DNA_+_Ancestry.html   (6329 words)

  
 Jarvis Documents
William Holland, Arnold Holland, Henry Gaither, Jr., Benjamin Gaither, Josina Holland, Nathan Holland.
Sept 1838 - John McClannon to Enoch Brock and William Jarvis for $100, 40 acres (all the residue of the Wright Smith tract not conveyed to William Nash adj.
Davie County, NC Feb, 1839 - William Jarvis to Samuel W. Hughes and wife of Weakly Co., TN for $100, 2/7 interest in tract formerly owned by Henry Brickhouse decd of Rowan on Cedar Crk adj Widow Kerby, Dr. Francis A. and William Cuthrell.
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 USMC/COMBAT HELICOPTER ASSOCIATION
By April, the VC were using many new tactics to lure helicopters into ambushes, such as popping smoke near LZs and waiting until after the gunships had made their runs, to fire on transport helos.
He then came under VC attack and lifted off, leaving some of his passengers in the LZ whom immediately came under heavy VC fire.
As they scrambled aboard, the VC resumed their attack on the helo crew and its new passengers.
www.popasmoke.com /chronology.html   (11128 words)

  
 Roots: The Progress of Science
A manuscript of the Rig Veda was brought to the Society by its founder, Sir William Jones, for inspection.
Goorudas Banerjee was Vice-Chancellor in 1886 and Asutosh Mookerjee succeeded Andrew Pedlar in 1906, and on becoming VC was determined to provide opportunities for research, which he himself had been denied.
When in 1937, S Chandrashekhar - who had researched at Calcutta for a brief period nine years earlier - described what have come to be known as "fl holes", A S Eddington at the same Royal Society meeting expressed his doubts and Chandrasekhar had to wait for almost half a century for his Nobel prize.
sankalpa.tripod.com /roots/s1scprog.html   (4711 words)

  
 Articles index started with wi
William Arthur Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill
William Carr Beresford, Viscount, Baron Beresford of Albuera and Dungarvan, Duke de Elvas Beresford
William Cavendish, 1st Duke Of, Marquess of Hartington, Earl of Devonshire, Baron Cavendish of Hardwick Devonshire
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 Williams, Jones Associates - Venture Capital Directory and Sample Business Plans.
Williams, Jones Associates - Venture Capital Directory and Sample Business Plans.
Williams, Jones & Associates, Inc. is a registered investment advisor providing investment management services to private individuals, retirement plans and non-profit organizations.
Williams, Jones & Associates, Inc. was founded in April 1988 as the successor to MacKay-Shields Associates,...
vclocator.com /Venture-Capital/04700/Williams,-Jones--Associates.html   (313 words)

  
 Star: Reliving bloody battles gone by   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
First there was John Roberts, a descendant of Private William Jones, VC, of Rorke's Drift fame, who came to research his ancestor.
More recently, came Bill Williams-Jones, another descendant of a Private Jones who was killed in the battle.
Stubbs added: "What a moment of emotional drama - 126 years after that historic event the descendants of Private William Jones and Dabulamanzi's great-grandson were listening to Rob relate the story of the Battle of Rorke's Drift.
www.thestar.co.za /index.php?fArticleId=3154366&fSectionId=497&fSetId=505   (846 words)

  
 Part 8 - The Reminiscences of Captain Thomas Chatfield at Churbuck.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jones formerly of the U.S.N. (her captain Buchanan had been wounded by a musket ball the day before, when the Merrimac had sunk both the Congress and the Cumberland, sailing sloops of war.) It was a fortunate circumstance that the Monitor arrived in Hampton Roads the night before the battle.
A boarding party consisting of Acting Master William Dennison (Executive office) and Arthur, with the Paymaster – to assist in examining her papers – and ten armed men, were sent aboard.
Captain Morris was a very restless sort of fellow, and after a time declared that he would not wait for Catesby Jones to come down the river to fight him: but, on the contrary, he would go up the river and fight Jones.
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