A Jones & Sons

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Trying to complete a date line for the Jones Bootmaker history, does anyone have a subscription to ancestory.com? as there is a Jones family tree here and I need the birth/death dates for Alfred's sons from, to determine when each store could have been opened.
Also, can anyone read the last town on the third row?:
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Leonardo da Vintage said:
Is it Worthing? It would make sense with the other locations in the South.
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I think so thank you!
Leonardo da Vintage said:
I've always wondered if these were anything to do with this company. They read "Expressly For Jones E Sons Ltd". Probably not, but if you come across anything please let me know!
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No I don't think so, the 'E' was probably included to differentiate from the many Jones bootmakers around. It is rather odd to have the E after the Jones. This might indicate a different country of origin, where Jones is a first name?
I've already managed to find another very similar group of Jones who were bootmakers around the same time but completely unrelated (business wise, though the family must be at some point in the past!) They emigrated to America though.
Also, I'm not sure but I don't think the company I'm researching were calling themselves Jones & Sons by the 1960s.
 
Coming back to this because I found out today that Jones have been manufacturing Ferragamo shoes for retail in the UK since the 1920's! I had no idea Ferragamo shoes were ever made outside of Italy (I knew they were retailed worldwide) nor that it was that early (it does appear to have continued until the 50s or 60s too)
Here is a pair of bar shoes designed by Ferragamo and made by Jones in England:
http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1364932

And Ruth in hindsight (having handled a lot more shoes in the meanwhile!) the fact your shoes state 'Expressly For' indicate that Jones & Sons was a retail shop, not the manufacturer. I see that on shoes made for higher end stores as 'no name' shoes (Harrods did similarly). I do think now that the E should be a ampersand as written in the old handwriting script E and & looked very similar, probably the stamp maker mistook the order. OR it was to keep with that very linear font style...
 
...and although you may no longer need this, if I am reading the family tree correctly, the children of Alfred and Emma were:

-- Alfred William Henry Jones (1861-1942)
-- Ernest Jones (1863-1911)
-- Horace Jones (1866-1943)
-- Frank Jones (1867-1961)
-- Herbert Rudkin Jones (1869-1954)
-- Edgar Jones (1870-1952)
-- Edward Jones (1872-1963)
-- Walton Jones (1873-1933)
-- Emma Florence Jones (1875-1951)
-- George Archibald Jones (1877-1935)
-- Ada Blanche Jones (1879-1953)
-- Alice Edith Jones (1881-1934)
-- Frederick Charles Jones (1882-1964)
-- Claude Victor Jones (1883-1957)
 
Thank you so much Lynne! That is exactly what I needed.
I had read the Jones website info, but I can never catch when they update those sort of things - it is becoming more typical for British companies to list their Heritage history online now though, which does make it easier.
 
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