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Mary Edith (Minnie) Jones
Place of birth: Llanfrothen
Service: Lady Superintendent, HM Factory Penrhyndeudraeth, 1916? - 1918
Death: 1964, Cause not known
Notes: Minnie Jones was the sister of Bessie Jones [qv]. She was appointed Lady Superintendent of the Munitions factory at Penrhyndeudraeth, probably in 1916 when it reopened after an explosion and nationalisation. In September 1918 she showed Mrs Lloyd George around the works when she came to open the new Y W C A attached to the factory. When production ceased in December 1918, Minnie was presented with a silver bowl ‘by the Women Workers of H M Factory as a mark of esteem and appreciation of many kindnesses’. Minnie was the recipient of Bessie Jones’s letters from France. She later became a JP.
Reference: WaW0441
Newspaper report
Report of Mrs Lloyd George’s visit to H M Factory Penrhyndeudraeth. North Wales Chronicle13th September 1918.
Newspaper report
Report of the presentation of a silver bowl to ‘Miss M E Jones, Supervisor’. North Wales Chronicle 13th December 1918.
Mary Elizabeth Jones
Place of birth: Llanfairfechan
Service: Stewardess, Cunard Steam Ship Company, \\\'Many years\\\'
Death: 1915/05/17, SS Lusio, Cause not known
Memorial: Mercantile Marine Memorial to the Missing, Tower Hill, London
Reference: WaW0256
Mary Elizabeth (May) Jones
Place of birth: Llanfairfechan
Service: Stewardess, Cunard Steam Ship Company
Death: 1915/05/17, SS Lusitania, Drowning / Boddi
Memorial: Mercantile Marine Memorial to the Missing, Tower Hill, London
Notes: May had been a senior stewardess with the Cunard Steam Ship Company for many years. She drowned aged 43 when SS Lusitania was torpedoed on 17th May 1917, together with 14 other stewardesses including Jane Howdle [qv]. Eight survived. She was buried with other victims at Old Cobh Cemetery, Queenstown, Ireland.
Reference: WaW0261
Mary R Jones
Service: Nurse, QAIMNS reserve / Wrth gefn yn y QAIMNS
Notes: Mary’s name appears at no 21 on the Roll of honour of those who served in WWI, Kings Cross Welsh Chapel London. She must have been a trained nurse working in London, but nothing is known of her.
Reference: WaW0199
Mary Jones’s name on Roll of Honour
Mary R Jones’s name on Roll of honour of those who served in WWI, Kings Cross Welsh Chapel London
Nellie Jones
Place of birth: Angorfa, Holyhead
Memorial: Armenia Chapel, Holyhead, Anglesey
Notes: Nothing is known of Nellie Jones, whose name appears on the Roll of Honour in Armenia Chapel, Caergybi. Sister of Maggie Jones.
Sources: http://www.anglesey.info/holyhead-armenia-chapel-war-memorials.htm
Reference: WaW0166
Roll of Honour
Record of the war service of Nellie Jones on the Roll of Honour of Armenia Chapel Holyhead
Olwen Jones (née Lewis)
Service: Wife, mother
Notes: 'My grandmother Olwen Jones with her two daughters, Dora Louise, on the left, aged two+ and Frances, right thirteen months younger. This was taken in 1916, when my grandfather [Percy Jones, Welsh Regiment] was conscripted and sent to France. He was wounded, but eventually returned to Abercarn and they had two more children post the war.' Rosemary Scadden.
Reference: WaW0036
Olwen Jones and daughters
Olwen Jones with her daughters Dora and Frances. Photograph taken when husbad Percy Jones was conscripted in 1916.
R E Jones
Place of birth: Swansea ?
Service: Pharmacist, Swansea Infirmary Ysbyty Abertawe , 1916 -
Notes: Notes [En] Miss R E Jones, an experienced practitioner, was appointed Pharmacist at Swansea Hospital in October 1916, beating the two male applicants for the post. She was to be paid a salary of £176 a year.
Reference: WaW0462
Winnie Jones
Place of birth: Llangenny
Service: Farm worker, WLA
Notes: Winnie and her sister Doris were farmer’s daughters, and worked for the Women’s Land Army
Reference: WaW0168
Zillah Mary Jones
Place of birth: Llanpumsaint
Service: Nurse, TFNS, 1914 - 1919
Notes: Born in Carmarthenshire in the 1870s, Zillah trained at St Bartholomew’s hospital in London. She seems to have worked as a private nurse for many years, a job that included accompanying patients to Egypt and the West Indies, she was called up in 1914 to serve on the hospital ship Carisbrooke Castle. Some of the Welsh soldiers she cared for were delighted to find someone in authority who could speak Welsh. Whilst there she was promoted from Staff Nurse to Sister. According to her memoir, she had hoped to join the RN Nursing Service, having forgotten that she had already signed up to the TFNS. In October 1915 she was posted to the 4th Northern General Hospital, Lincoln, despite hoping for another Hospital Ship appointment. She records that her replacement on Carisbrooke Castle suffered from appalling sea-sickness. Whilst at Lincoln (where she remained for the rest of the War) she had a bicycle accident and broke her ankle badly; there is much correspondence about this on her War Office file. After demobilisation she went back to private nursing. Her memoir was published in 1964.
Sources: A Sister’s Log: A Nurse\\\'s Reminiscences. Gomerian Press, 1964
Reference: WaW0432
Edith C Kenyon
Place of birth: Doncaster
Service: Writer
Death: 1925, Cause not known
Notes: Edith C Kenyon, a doctor’s daughter, had part of her upbringing in Machynlleth. She was an extremely prolific writer of novels for adults and children, and occasional non-fiction. Towards the end of her life she wrote a number of Welsh inspired romances, with title such as Nansi’s Scapegoat, The Winning of Glenora, The Wooing of Myfanwy, and The Marriage of Mari. This was serialised with much publicity in the Cambria Daily Leader in 1916. Her use of the Ceredigion landscape was much admired. She also wrote at least one war themed book for children: Pickles – A Red Cross Heroine. Her work was popular in both the United States and Australia.
Reference: WaW0455
Book
Pickles, A Red Cross Heroine by Edith C Kenyon, published by Collins. ‘Pickles dropped the deadly thing over the vasty deep’.
Newspaper cutting
Heading and opening paragraphs of The Marriage of Mari. Cambria Daily Leader 26th October 1916.
Newspaper advertisement
Full column promotion of the serialisation of The Marriage of Mari. Cambria Daily Leader 23rd October 1916.
Newspaper report
Review of The Wooing of Mifanwy [sic] in an Australian paper. The Advertiser Adelaide 22nd March 1913.