This notebook contains an alphabetical listing for the JONES surname abstracted from the Committee For Compounding 1643-1660. A copy of a page from my notes is shown below. Family groups are clustered and the counties involved are included. They were classified as a "Papist", "recusant", and "dissenter". A "recusant" was one of the Roman Catholics in England who formerly incurred legal and social penalties for refusing to attend services of the Church of England. A "dissenter" was defined as a non-conformist.
These are pages from my personal research. It explores which JONES families were on what side of the fence, Catholic or Protestant.
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