Henry Jones

The lease of Drombeg from the Hollow Sword Blades Company, dated 27 October 1708, was taken in his father Edward's name; by 1709 Henry was the sitting tenant named in the deeds, and it was under him that the family's hold on the hillside above Glandore became a fact of record, for the better part of three centuries. He was witnessing deeds by 1712, standing trustee for his neighbours by 1719, and was buried at Ross in July 1743. His wife is the family's oldest unanswered question: one nineteenth-century compiler calls her a Miss Townsend and gives no forename and no source, and the only real support for it is that two of his grandsons were christened with Townsend as a middle name. The stone circle known as the Druids' Altar stood in the fields he leased, and his descendants took their tea on it for two hundred years.

Research notes

HENRY JONES OF DROMBEG. Son of Edward Jones of Drombeg and a Honner (Brady, Clerical & Parochial Records, 1863); grandson of the founder Henry Jones (I81047). Est. b. ABT 1665; bur. Ross 9 Jul 1743. RECORDS: (1) Act of Attainder 1689 (King, State of the Protestants, 1691, App. p.250, page image): 'Henry Jones of Bandon Gentleman', listed with William Ware, John Sullevan, Ralph Charters of Bandon; Bennett, Hist. of Bandon (1869) p.236 prints the same. Identification with this man: ~. (2) The Drombeg lease of 27 Oct 1708 (Hollow Sword Blades Co., lives renewable for ever, 11l 5s 3d; agreement 7 May 1707) is recited in the Encumbered Estates Court rental of 1852 as made to EDWARD JONES (I81045); never registered. The 1709 memorial (3) names the sitting lessee as Henry. Father and son per Brady. (3) ROD mem. 1843 (reg. 1710): the Company sells Drombeg & Knockeridane (74a 3r 24p, 'late part of the estates of the late King James II before his accession') to Ralph Freke, 7-8 Jul 1709, subject to the Company's lease to Henry Jones. (4) ROD mem. 4757: 14 Mar 1712, witness with Richard Beamish of Garranloughane and John Jones of Bandon to John Honner of Crohane's mortgage; styled 'Henry Jones of Dromoegg Gent'; signs 'Hen: Jones'. (5) ROD mem. 7199: 28 Oct 1712, witness with Richard Hungerford to Dame Katherine Moore's execution of the Alcock-Moore-Southwell settlement. (6) ROD mem. 4774: 9 Dec 1713, marriage settlement, with Nathaniel Jones of Macroom. (7) ROD mem. 13570: 31 May/1 Jun 1719, trustee (with Ald. Wm Lambley of Cork) of the settlement of Crohane on the marriage of William Honners, 2nd son of John Honners of Crohane, with Ann Lambley. (8) Ross burial 9 Jul 1743. (9) Encumbered Estates Court rental, 2 Apr 1852, Lot 1 (page image): Droumbeg House and Demesne, 180a 3r 20p, 'held under a Lease from the Hollow Swords Blades Company to Edward Jones, dated 27th October 1708, for Lives Renewable for Ever, at the Yearly Rent of 11l 5s 3d', renewal fine 5l 13s 4d at fall of each life; 'the original Lease of 1708 is not forthcoming, but an agreement dated 7th May 1707... will be handed to the Purchaser, as also the subsequent Renewals'; last renewal 16 Feb 1848 from the Baroness Carbery to Rev. Richard Francis Webb, surviving trustee of Rev. Jonas Travers Jones's settlement; 90a in Harry Jones's hands, remainder let to James Regan and Denis McCarthy. WIFE: unrecorded. Brady alone calls her 'Miss Townsend', no forename or source; no Jones-Townsend marriage bond in the Cork & Ross index; none in the Townsend Family Records before 1867. Grandsons Edward Townsend Jones and John Townsend Jones named in the 1774 will. A 'Mary Jones late of Droumbeg' bur. Ross 24 May 1761 is not attached. ASSOCIATES ON RECORD: John Jones of Bandon, gent and JP (co-witness 1712; certifies Henry's affidavit 1712; 12+ Bandon deeds 1708-15; buys a lease for 260l 1713, mem. 5047; witness only in mems 3116/3117/3879/5048; never Provost - Provosts were Samuel Bruce 1712, George Howse 1714, Daniel Conner 1721). Relationship to Henry: not stated in any record. Richard Beamish of Garranloughane (I81011, husband of Mary Townsend I81012): co-witness 1712; his son George m. Henry's daughter Frances 1748. John Honner of Crohane: Henry witnesses for him 1712 and is his trustee 1719. CORRECTIONS ON FILE: mem. 13570 is the Honners-Lambley marriage, Henry trustee (the tree once married him to Ann Lambley - struck Jul 2026); mem. 1843 makes him prior lessee, not co-grantee; 'John Jones Provost' in the ROD index was a column slip; mems 3116/3117/3879 recite other families' title (Armitage-Bull, Pigott-Stawell), not Jones title. Daughters per the 1776 will of his nephew Alexander Martin, cross-checked against Cork & Ross bonds. [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.]

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