Mary "Maria" Jones

William Jones' first wife died, and he remarried to Mary Nix on 17 April 1731 at St. Lawrence Jewry, London to Mary, the youngest daughter of cabinet-maker George Nix and his wife Sarah, baptized 16 Oct 1709 at Saint Paul Covent Garden, Westminster, London, England.

The marriage allegation was 16 Jan 1730. Mary was listed as age 25, spinster, of the Parish of St Paul, Covent Garden. William was listed as of the Parish of St. Martin's in the Fields.

William Jones was 56 at the time of their marriage and had been previously married to the widow of his counting house employer. Mary and William had three children, George who died young, and two of whom survived to adulthood: Mary, born in 1736 (married Frank Rainsford) and William born 10 years later, who married Anna Maria Shipley. Apparently neither Mary nor William Jun. had children.

Mary Jones was widowed in 1749, and when her son attended Oxford, relocated there also, where she died in 1780.

From the DNB article for William Jones:

biographical notes

From Memoirs of the life, writings and correspondence of sir William Jones, by lord Teignmouth. With the life of lord Teignmouth, and notes, by S.C. Wilks. (2017). Google Books. Retrieved 15 March 2017, from page 98

After the retirement of Lord Macclesfield to Sherborne Castle, Mr. Jones resided with his Lordship as a member of his family, and instructed him in the sciences. In this situation he had the misfortune to lose the greatest part of his property, the accumulation of industry and economy, by the failure of a banker: but the friendship of Lord Macclesfield diminished the weight of the loss, by procuring for him a sinecure place of considerable emolument. The same nobleman, who was then teller of the exchequer, made him an offer of a more lucrative situation; but he declined the acceptance of it, as it would have imposed on him the obligation of more official attendance than was agreeable to his temper, or compatible with his attachment to scientific pursuits.
In this retreat he became acquainted with Miss Mary Nix, the youngest daughter of George Nix, a cabinetmaker in London, who, although of low extraction, had raised himself to eminence in his profession, and, from the honest and pleasant frankness of his conversation, was admitted to the tables of the great, and to the intimacy of Lord Macclesfield. The acquaintance of Mr. Jones with Miss Nix terminated in marriage; and from this union sprang three children, the last of whom, the late Sir William Jones, was born in London, on the eve of the festival of Saint Michael, in the year 1746; and, a few days after his birth, was baptized by the christian name of his father. The first son, George, died in his infancy; and the second child, a daughter, Mary, who was born in 1736, married Mr. Rainsford, a merchant retired from business in opulent circumstances. This lady perished miserably, during the year 1802, in consequence of an accident from her clothes catching fire.
Mr. Jones survived the birth of his son William but three years. He was attacked with a disorder, which the sagacity of Dr. Mead, who attended him with the anxiety of an affectionate friend, immediately discovered to be a polypus in the heart, and wholly incurable. This alarming secret was communicated to Mrs. Jones, who, from an affectionate but mistaken motive, could never be induced to discover it to her husband; and, on one occasion, displayed a remarkable instance of self-command and address in the concealment of it. A well-meaning friend, who knew his dangerous situation, had written to him a long letter of condolence, replete with philosophic axioms on the brevity of life: Mrs. Jones, who opened the letter, discovered the purport of it at a glance, and being desired by her husband to read it, composed in the moment another lecture so clearly and rapidly, that he had no suspicion of the deception; and this she did in a style so cheerful and entertaining, that it greatly exhilarated him. He died soon after, in July 1749, leaving behind him a great reputation and moderate property.

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• http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Jones.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jones_(mathematician)_
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