JONES PITTAWAY
SMITHSON FAMILY TREE
Pittaway Branch
I
don't know much about the Jones Branch of my family, Jones was the
second husband of my grandmother,
Herculina Johanna Coetzer. I believe, for reason of social
well-being (sic), the surname of Herculina's younger children was
changed from Pittaway to Jones on the 27-5-1942. Jones later
left Herculina and the children.
Herculina's son, Arthur Henry Jones (my father) grew up on a mining
consession
which they apparently left after the separation with Jones.
My father was in boarding school at Prince Edwards in Salisbury
(Harare) Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) from 12(?) to 18 years old, he then
qualified as a telecommunications technician with the PTC
(Rhodesias Poste and Telecom Corporation).
He worked for the PTC as aprentice and then put up telephone lines
and the posts along a few dusty and deserted roads in the then
Southern-Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
I will try get down all the fantastic stories that I know about my
father and my mother…
I'm sure that a short bit of history from everyone could make this,
perhaps, a precious resource of the family.
My Great-great-great-grandparents
Jones,
b: …, …,(?)
Married : ?, b: ??.
(?)
My Great-great-grandparents
Children :
1. , b: .
Married :
(?).
Children :
1.
My great-grandparents
Jones,
b: .
Married: , b:
??(?)
, .
My grandparents
Children :
1. Jones,
b: ???
(?)(English)(?)
Married: Herculina Johanna
(Pittaway) Jones,
nee Coetzer,
b: 27/6/1896 at Cashal near Melsetter, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe).
(Married 1st: Rueben Joseph
Pittaway),
(cf.
Pittaway
Branch)
— Divorced.
(?)
My parents
Herculina Johanna
(Pittaway) Jones,
nee Coetzer,
(my grandmother)
Children:
1.
Ruben Pittaway, b: 19…, …, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe).
2. Edith Elizabeth Beattie, nee Coetzer (father R.J. Pittaway) b:
19-7-1923
(?) in
Salisbury (Harare), changed name to Jones on 27/5/42. Rhodesia
(Zimbabwe). Died in Harare, Zimbabwe, ………19(?).
Married - David Smith Beattie
(my uncle) (cf. Beattie
Branch), b: 20-7-1917
(?), Brechin,
Scotland.
3. Arthur Henry
Jones (nee
Pittaway)(my
father), b:
1930?, birth registration entry No. 304/31 shows father as Ruben
Joseph Pittaway, b:(?).
(recorded for records search). Surname was changed to Jones on the
27-5-1942 after his mother remarried Jones. Died 30-07-1992,
Mottingham, London, UK.
Married: Margaret
Smithson,
(cf.
Smithson
Branch), b: ……………in Durham, England.
Children:
1. Stephen Jones, b: …………1964, …, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe).
— Married: Sharon …………, b: ……1966. Has children. Courtney Megan
Jones, b: ……
2. Rodney Jones, b: 14-04-1966, …, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe).
— Children:
1. Daughter, Rossanna
(?) .
2.
Daughter, Leonie
(?)
3. Jeremey Jones, b: …………1968, …, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Has no
children.
4. Dennis Jones,
(That's me ;-) b: 11-03-1969, Kariba, Rhodesia
(Zimbabwe).
— Union: Marie-Pierre Leroux, b: 5-7-1959, Chartres, France, Has
children. Emma Stéphanie Jones, b: 24-9-1988, Camden, London,
UK.