Henry Jones

? Tradition / unproven (dashed on the chart). FOUNDER OF THE JONESES OF BANDON AND DROMBEG; father of Edward Jones of Drombeg (I81045), grandfather of Henry Jones of Drombeg (I81043). SOURCES: Brady, Clerical & Parochial Records (1863): Drombeg 'came to the family in the seventeenth century'; Edward of Drombeg m. a Honner. Cole, Church & Parish Records of Cork, Cloyne & Ross (1903) p.257: Drombeg 'built in the year 1703 by Henry Jones, a descendant of Henry Jones, a major in Cromwell's army, who settled in Bandon' (page images on file; the Townsend Family Records rec. 343 copies Cole). Forename and rank rest on Cole only. No primary record names him. DATES: est. b. ABT 1615 (Cromwellian army in Ireland 1649-53); Edward ABT 1645; Henry ABT 1665. Agreed 12 Oct 2026. DROMBEG: house c.1660 by its fabric (NIAH reg. 20914302); not rebuilt 1703 (Cole's date is a lease misreading). Pender's Census c.1659: Drombeg held by Richard Cambridge, 15 people; no Jones among Bandon's tituladoes. The family's tenure of Drombeg therefore lies between 1659 and Edward's lease of 1708 (agreement 1707). RECORDS SEARCHED 12 Oct 2026: Cork Remonstrance 23 Oct 1649 (EEBO-TCP A58528) - 39 signatories, no Jones. Dunlop, Ireland under the Commonwealth - a Major Henry Jones, Dublin garrison 1653-59, Lt-Col of Markham's foot 1659; no Munster connection recorded. 1641 Depositions - Henry Jones of Cork, aged c.31 in 1654, soldier-witness to Carlow rebels of 1641, signs by mark (MS 812 ff.153-158); William Jones of Kilbrogan, tanner, b. c.1604, robbed 1642 (MS 822 f.45), examined 1654 (MS 827); John Jones of Ringrone, b. c.1629. Pender c.1659 - Henry Jones, titulado of Coolmoreen, Templemichael parish, Kinalea (34 people, 12 English). Bennett, Hist. of Bandon - no Major Jones. Vicars and Phillimore will indexes - no Henry Jones of Bandon. None of these is identified with this man. NEXT: Books of Survey & Distribution 1670 (Coolmoreen); Caulfield, Council Book of Cork, App. B (Depositions of Cromwell's Adherents, 1654); Kilbrogan register 1653- (RCB). [DIRECT ANCESTOR OF THE COMPILER: flag added 24 Jul 2026 by walking the tree from Aynsley, so that this marker is reliable and can be searched.]