Joines meaning | Last name Joines origin

Joines is a variant form of Jones. The son of Jone, the Welsh pronunciation of John meaning "gracious gift of Jehovah".

Surname Joines is variant of Jones. A genitive form of John, through Johnes, common everywhere in England, but super abundant in Wales. Next to John Smith, John Jones is probably the most common combination of names in Britain. As the Registrar-general well observes, "the name of John Jones is in Wales a perpetual incognito, and being proclaimed at the cross of a market-town would indicate no one in particular." From the able Report of the same functionary (XVI. 1856), we learn that Jones is, for numerousness, second only to Smith; for while within a given period the number of Smiths registered throughout England, as born, married, or dead, amounted to 33,557, the Joneses in like circumstances were 33,341 -a singularly close approximation. Old Daniel Fenning, the author of the immortal phrase, "Smith, Jones, Brown, and Robinson," was therefore quite right as to the order of precedence of the first two names, though the Reg. Gen. puts Brown sixth, and Robin son eleventh, on the roll of common surnames. The existing number of Joneses is estimated at 51,000 families, or about a quarter of a million of individuals.

The commonness of some surnames, especially the Welsh, renders the bearers of them, though of good family, undistinguishable from the ignobile vulgus. Mr. Edwards may be of as ancient blood as Mr. Neville, and high -sounding Mr. St. John is after all inferior in antiquity to plain Mr. Jones. For example-

JONES of Llanerchrugog Hall, Denbighshire, descends in a direct line from Gwaithvoed, lord of Cardigan and Gwent, A.D. and represents one of the Fifteen Noble Tribes of North Wales.
JONES of Trewythen, county of Montgomery, derives from Cadwgan, lord of Nannau, son of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, King of Powys.
JONES of Hartsheath, county of Flint, claims from Cowryd ap Cadvan, a chieftain of Dyffryn Clwyd in Denbighland. B.L.G.