Maj. John Maddock Jones

Extract from a letter by George Abbas Kooli D'Arcy to Mrs AA Ruck (Ellie): " a supposed wealthy squire, married the General's eldest daughter. I don't think she was ever very pretty, but very clever. My Father had great faith in her advice> As boys we used to stop at the Jone's place in Wales near LLangollen. Afterwards the Major fell into the sere and yellow leaf, his father died in debt and the old place had to be sold. The Major and his wife retired to Hvre de Grace, where they both died supported by my father and the Aunts" The history of the princes, the lords marcher, and the ancient nobility of Powys Fadog, and the ancient lords of Arwystli, Cedewen, and Meirionydd John Maddock Jones of Pen y Bryn, Major of the Royal Denbigh Militia, married Margaret Maria Isabella, eldest daughter of Major-General Robert D'Arcy, Royal Engineers, by whom he had no issue. He dissipated and sold all the estates of his father and mother, excepting the property left to his father at Penley in Flintshire, which was left him by his kinsman, Roger Hanmer of Maes Gwaelod, and a tenement in Fen y Bryn, bought from Mostyn Owen of Plas Kynaston, which he, John Maddock, was not permitted to enjoy, but was entailed on William Maddock Williams, his nephew.