OCCUPATION
Master butcher; also milk vendor, bread carter, greyhound trainer and, in later years, rubber worker and cold storage storeman.
PERSONAL AND FAMILY DETAILS
Born March 15, 1891 at Stanmore NSW Australia.
Son of Arthur William Jones (1861-1925), a builder, and Elizabeth Mary [aka Mary Elizabeth/'Minnie'] Garde (1865-1891), a master mariner's daughter.
Married:
(1) Violet Victoria Porter (1895-1937), from 1915 to 1937 (her death), three sons (John Victor, Henry Victor, and Lloyd Arthur).
(2) Hilda May Trollope (1901-1974), from 1938 to 1952 (his death), one daughter (Beryl Jessie).
Father of John Victor Jones (1917-1918), Henry Victor Jones [later Ellis-Jones] (1919-1985), Lloyd Arthur Jones (1922-1995) and Beryl Jessie Jones (born 1942).
Died September 25, 1952 at Minto NSW Australia.
ANCESTRY
Victor's ancestry was Australian, Welsh, English, Irish and Huguenot.
The family of Victor's grandfather William Ellis Jones's wife, Elizabeth Haylock Coote (1826-1898), on the paternal side of her mother Madeline Henrietta Vernezobre (1803-1883), were members of the prominent Huguenot (French Protestant) family, the Vernezobres. The Vernezobre family originally came from Languedoc, in the south of France, to England via Germany in the early 1700s to escape persecution and possibly death at the hands of French Catholics. Elizabeth Haylock Coote's maternal grandfather David John Vernezobre (born 1755) was born in the (then) Dutch colony of Suriname, on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America, and his father Charles A Vernezobre (1724-1775) as well as his parents were born in Amsterdam, Holland. Other family members were born in Prussia and England, among other places.
Interestingly, there was also a Huguenot connection through Victor's mother, Mary Elizabeth [also known as Elizabeth Mary or Minnie] Garde (1865-1886). The Garde family were originally Huguenots.
BIOGRAPHY
Victor Arthur Jones was born in Stanmore NSW Australia on March 15, 1891.
He was a butcher by trade. He broke from the Jones family tradition in becoming a butcher, much against his father's wishes. Almost everyone else in his family, including his father, his paternal grandfather William Ellis Jones (1826-1908), his elder brother Les [Leslie John Jones (1889-1970)], and Les's sons Cyril, Lloyd, Eric and Mervyn, were involved in the building trade.
Vic's mother died from complications from childbirth only 12 days after his birth. Almost immediately after the death of Vic's mother Minnie, Vic and his older brother Les were effectively reared by their late mother's sister Jessie Davis who had a daughter Dorothy (who was about 10 years younger than Vic) and a son. Vic and Les' father Arthur wanted to marry Jessie, who presumably was not married at the time, but that didn't happen. Instead, Arthur married one Emily Sophia Wilmot (1863-1947) in 1892, and one child, a daughter, Elizabeth Emily Fletcher ('Lil' or 'Lily') Jones (1897-1947), was born of that marriage. Lil was the historian of the Jones side of the family and had custody of old family documents and a Bible brought out to Australia from Wales by her paternal grandfather William Ellis Jones.
On October 13, 1915 at St Peters Church of England, in St Peters, in metropolitan Sydney NSW, Vic married Violet Victoria ('Vi') Porter who had been born in North Carlton, Victoria, Australia on September 28, 1895. Her father Alfred John Porter, from Deal, England, was a seaman who at the time of his retirement was chief steward on RMS "Aorangi" II. Violet's early years had been spent in metropolitan Melbourne, Victoria, but later the Porter family had moved to Sydney, New South Wales. Violet had attended state schools around Sydney.
Violet was a most creative and artistic woman. She painted well and also played the piano skilfully. Her other interests included literature, art and swimming. Violet was strict on living ethically. She would say to her sons, 'You can stoop to the gutter and find nothing. Always do the right thing.' Another saying of hers that her son Harry remembered was this, 'Give mercy, but expect none.' It was sound advice for tough and troubled times. It remains good advice.
Three children were born of the marriage. Sadly, the firstborn child, John Victor (Porter) Jones, died from gastroenteritis on December 25, 1918, at the age of 14 months, after being ill for 14 days. The young child's death certificate records Vic's occupation at that time as being a milk vendor. At the time of the birth of Vic's third son Lloyd (October 19, 1922), his occupation was listed in the certificate as bread carter.
The death of a young child, especially a baby or an infant, invariably places strain on a marriage and many marriages collapse under the strain, sometimes as a result of one of the partners unfairly blaming the other for a state of affairs -- real or imagined -- that purportedly led or otherwise contributed to the child's death. It seems that Violet subsequently developed a certain fondness for alcohol and additional strain was placed on the marriage when she began to look outside it for relief.
Although christened Anglicans, Vic and Violet's sons Harry and Lloyd were sent to a nearby Salvation Army Sunday School, mainly because it was close to their home in Terry Street, Sydenham, a suburb in the inner west of Sydney NSW.
Until he moved out of Sydney about the time of the end of World War II Vic lived in various inner west and south-western suburbs of Sydney including Dulwich Hill, Earlwood and, from the mid-1930s, Drummoyne (at 54 Cary Street). At one stage prior to the Great Depression of 1929-39 Vic owned two butcher shops in Marrickville, a suburb in the inner west of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Vic lost both shops in the aftermath of the Great Depression. He simply could not allow his customers, who were no longer able to pay for their purchases, to go without food for their family. He paid a high price for his generosity and compassion, for he lost virtually everything. In 1930 more than one in five adult males in NSW Australia was without a job. Australian governments responded to the Great Depression with measures such as cuts to government spending, public service salaries and public works cancellations that, NSW premier Jack Lang (1876-1975) claimed, made circumstances even worse Despite that, Vic was never a supporter of Lang who was NSW premier for two terms (1925-27, 1930-32).
Financially, Vic never recovered from the socio-economic effects of the Depression, but he never allowed himself the luxury of bitterness. A worrier by nature but otherwise full of nervous energy, he got on with the business of living and supporting his family as best he could.
Vic's father Arthur had taken his own life on March 14, 1925. Sadly, on May 26, 1937, Vic's first wife Violet would also take her own life. She was buried with Anglican rites at Woronora General Cemetery, Sutherland NSW. Her death left a huge hole in the hearts and lives of Vic and the two boys Harry and Lloyd.
Vic would marry again the next year. On October 15, 1938, at Drummoyne Baptist Church, Drummoyne, in metropolitan Sydney NSW, he married his housekeeper Hilda May Trollope, and his second marriage--her first--proved to be a most happy one. However, more sadness followed when Vic's half-sister, the above mentioned Elizabeth Emily Fletcher Jones also took her own life, on September 15, 1947, less than three weeks' after her mother's death. Vic often said to his second wife Hilda, 'I will tell you about my broken life one day.' That day never happened.
Although Vic didn't wish for more children, at least at the time he married for the second time in 1938, his second wife had other ideas. Although he wasn't too pleased initially when Hilda announced that she was pregnant, he must have warmed to the idea because before his daughter Beryl was born he purchased a little wooden table and chair set which his daughter still has today, and he cried with joy when she was born on June 27, 1942 at Five Dock, in metropolitan Sydney NSW.
Throughout much of the 1930s and 1940s Vic worked as a labourer and rubber worker at Perdriau & Co Rubber Works at Birkenhead Point, Drummoyne, in metropolitan Sydney NSW. (The Perdriau Rubber Company was established in 1904. In 1929 the company merged with the Dunlop Rubber Company of Australia Ltd, forming Dunlop Perdriau Co Ltd. In 1977 the rubber plant closed down and the site was redeveloped into a waterfront shopping centre with, in more recent years, superadded residential components.)
Subsequently, Vic worked for a time in cold stores near Central Railway, Sydney. However, in his later years he had back trouble and found it difficult to continue working. At the very end of his working life he returned briefly to his trade of butchery, helping out in a butcher's shop in Minto, which was then a small semi-rural village on the outskirts of Campbelltown, New South Wales, 'Australia's first green city', where he lived from early 1946 until his death six years later. (Sidelights. Vic's brother Les, a builder, built the Minto residence 'Como' [in Victoria Road], assisted by Vic himself, in 1945. The parcel of land was apparently purchased from the next door neighbour, Ruby Alma Potter (1881-1964), originally a dressmaker, who apparently sold her spare block to Vic and Hilda. She herself had moved to Minto around 1940. Interestingly, the Potter family's home 'Lynwood' was right across the road from the Trollopes' home 'Summerset' in Burns Crescent, Chiswick. One thing is clear—the Joneses (that is, Vic, Hilda and their young daughter Beryl) moved to Minto after visiting Miss Potter; they noticed the vacant block next door to hers and decided to purchase it.)
Minto, which is named after the 1st Earl of Minto (Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (1751-1814)), and built on land granted to the English-born surgeon Dr William Redfern (1774-1833) by NSW Governor Lachlan Macquarie (1762-1824), was a very small but close-knit community until the late 1960s and '70s when the NSW Housing Commission embarked upon a major public housing development. In the 1940s and '50s the locality was mostly used for dairying and poultry farming. For many years there was little more in the way of shops in the township than a general store, a post office (run by Jim Williams, who had been appointed postmaster in 1916, and his wife), a haberdashery store run by a Mrs Brookfield (which previously had been a general store run by William J ('Bill') Harris) and, for a time, a butcher's shop (run for a time by a Mr Barnsley) where, as already mentioned, Vic helped out for a while. In addition, there was a School of Arts, an Anglican Church (St James), a public school, and a showground.
In his final years at Minto Vic devoted himself to his wife and young daughter Beryl, and busied himself with his caged birds--he was constantly building, knocking down and rebuilding wooden bird cages in his backyard--poultry, cats and dogs. Other hobbies and interests of his over the years included athletics, horse racing, training greyhounds, and gardening. He was a non-drinker who enjoyed rolling his own cigarettes using pipe tobacco and with an automatic cigarette rolling machine. He was a great walker and was involved in competitions when he was young. He always walked at a very smart pace with others trying to keep up with him.
Vic was very close to his older brother Les. The two of them were generous to a fault even though neither was financially well-off. At the railway station they would often 'argue' about who was to pay for the tickets. Each would offer to pay the fares for both. The 'argument' would almost invariably end up with each throwing the other's money off the platform. Both Vic and Les were very close to their half-sister Lil.
Some three years or so before his death Vic contracted pulmonary tuberculosis. He was advised by a doctor to enter a sanatorium but he did not want to leave his family. He fought the illness with great stoicism but ultimately succumbed at his residence in Victoria Road, Minto on September 25, 1952, at the age of 61. (Sidelight. The medical practitioner who certified Vic's death was a Campbelltown general practitioner, Polish-born Abraham Wajnryb MD (1912-1993), a Holocaust survivor.) On the following day Vic was cremated at Rookwood Crematorium with Anglican rites, with the Rev J P Dryland officiating at the service.
Vic's estate was valued for New South Wales probate at AUS £1,076 (AUS $2,152) net [approximately AUS $37,831.28 as at 2015], with probate being granted on June 11, 1953 based on a will dated January 29, 1949. The executor of his estate was his son Harry.
Vic was survived by his second wife Hilda (who had cared lovingly for him during his final illness), his two sons Harry and Lloyd and their respective spouses Phyl and Pat, his daughter Beryl, two grandchildren Marilyn and Kevin, and his brother Les (who would marry Vic's widow Hilda in 1954).
In the words of his brother Les, Vic was 'one of the very best'. His former daughter-in-law Pat remembers Victor as a kind, gentle and sentimental man--'a real softie' who 'would cry at the drop of a hat'. His daughter Beryl remembers her father crying as he listened to the annual Anzac Day march broadcast over the radio, and he would often cry at weddings. Another person who knew him referred to him as a 'top bloke'. He was a gentleman in every sense of the word.
'Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.' Marcus Aurelius, Meditations.
See also Find A Grave Memorials # 158274526 (Violet Victoria Porter Jones), # 159604732 (Hilda May Trollope Pollard), # 159420821 (Arthur William Jones), # 153906745 (John Victor 'Jacky' Jones), # 145071151 (Henry Victor 'Harry' Ellis-Jones), # 135153728 (Lloyd Arthur Jones), # 153906924 (Leslie John Jones) and # 170275811 (Elizabeth Emily Fletcher Jones).
Note. This biographical profile was written by Dr Ian Ellis-Jones, of Sydney NSW Australia, who is the grandson of Victor Arthur Jones. Special thanks are due to Mrs Beryl Martin, Victor's daughter, who provided valuable input, and to Lisa McManus who provided some information on the Potter family.
REFERENCE MATERIAL
Ellis-Jones, H V. Unpublished memoir, letters and other writings, family scrapbooks and miscellaneous records. nd. Collection of I D Ellis-Jones.
Master butcher; also milk vendor, bread carter, greyhound trainer and, in later years, rubber worker and cold storage storeman.
PERSONAL AND FAMILY DETAILS
Born March 15, 1891 at Stanmore NSW Australia.
Son of Arthur William Jones (1861-1925), a builder, and Elizabeth Mary [aka Mary Elizabeth/'Minnie'] Garde (1865-1891), a master mariner's daughter.
Married:
(1) Violet Victoria Porter (1895-1937), from 1915 to 1937 (her death), three sons (John Victor, Henry Victor, and Lloyd Arthur).
(2) Hilda May Trollope (1901-1974), from 1938 to 1952 (his death), one daughter (Beryl Jessie).
Father of John Victor Jones (1917-1918), Henry Victor Jones [later Ellis-Jones] (1919-1985), Lloyd Arthur Jones (1922-1995) and Beryl Jessie Jones (born 1942).
Died September 25, 1952 at Minto NSW Australia.
ANCESTRY
Victor's ancestry was Australian, Welsh, English, Irish and Huguenot.
The family of Victor's grandfather William Ellis Jones's wife, Elizabeth Haylock Coote (1826-1898), on the paternal side of her mother Madeline Henrietta Vernezobre (1803-1883), were members of the prominent Huguenot (French Protestant) family, the Vernezobres. The Vernezobre family originally came from Languedoc, in the south of France, to England via Germany in the early 1700s to escape persecution and possibly death at the hands of French Catholics. Elizabeth Haylock Coote's maternal grandfather David John Vernezobre (born 1755) was born in the (then) Dutch colony of Suriname, on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America, and his father Charles A Vernezobre (1724-1775) as well as his parents were born in Amsterdam, Holland. Other family members were born in Prussia and England, among other places.
Interestingly, there was also a Huguenot connection through Victor's mother, Mary Elizabeth [also known as Elizabeth Mary or Minnie] Garde (1865-1886). The Garde family were originally Huguenots.
BIOGRAPHY
Victor Arthur Jones was born in Stanmore NSW Australia on March 15, 1891.
He was a butcher by trade. He broke from the Jones family tradition in becoming a butcher, much against his father's wishes. Almost everyone else in his family, including his father, his paternal grandfather William Ellis Jones (1826-1908), his elder brother Les [Leslie John Jones (1889-1970)], and Les's sons Cyril, Lloyd, Eric and Mervyn, were involved in the building trade.
Vic's mother died from complications from childbirth only 12 days after his birth. Almost immediately after the death of Vic's mother Minnie, Vic and his older brother Les were effectively reared by their late mother's sister Jessie Davis who had a daughter Dorothy (who was about 10 years younger than Vic) and a son. Vic and Les' father Arthur wanted to marry Jessie, who presumably was not married at the time, but that didn't happen. Instead, Arthur married one Emily Sophia Wilmot (1863-1947) in 1892, and one child, a daughter, Elizabeth Emily Fletcher ('Lil' or 'Lily') Jones (1897-1947), was born of that marriage. Lil was the historian of the Jones side of the family and had custody of old family documents and a Bible brought out to Australia from Wales by her paternal grandfather William Ellis Jones.
On October 13, 1915 at St Peters Church of England, in St Peters, in metropolitan Sydney NSW, Vic married Violet Victoria ('Vi') Porter who had been born in North Carlton, Victoria, Australia on September 28, 1895. Her father Alfred John Porter, from Deal, England, was a seaman who at the time of his retirement was chief steward on RMS "Aorangi" II. Violet's early years had been spent in metropolitan Melbourne, Victoria, but later the Porter family had moved to Sydney, New South Wales. Violet had attended state schools around Sydney.
Violet was a most creative and artistic woman. She painted well and also played the piano skilfully. Her other interests included literature, art and swimming. Violet was strict on living ethically. She would say to her sons, 'You can stoop to the gutter and find nothing. Always do the right thing.' Another saying of hers that her son Harry remembered was this, 'Give mercy, but expect none.' It was sound advice for tough and troubled times. It remains good advice.
Three children were born of the marriage. Sadly, the firstborn child, John Victor (Porter) Jones, died from gastroenteritis on December 25, 1918, at the age of 14 months, after being ill for 14 days. The young child's death certificate records Vic's occupation at that time as being a milk vendor. At the time of the birth of Vic's third son Lloyd (October 19, 1922), his occupation was listed in the certificate as bread carter.
The death of a young child, especially a baby or an infant, invariably places strain on a marriage and many marriages collapse under the strain, sometimes as a result of one of the partners unfairly blaming the other for a state of affairs -- real or imagined -- that purportedly led or otherwise contributed to the child's death. It seems that Violet subsequently developed a certain fondness for alcohol and additional strain was placed on the marriage when she began to look outside it for relief.
Although christened Anglicans, Vic and Violet's sons Harry and Lloyd were sent to a nearby Salvation Army Sunday School, mainly because it was close to their home in Terry Street, Sydenham, a suburb in the inner west of Sydney NSW.
Until he moved out of Sydney about the time of the end of World War II Vic lived in various inner west and south-western suburbs of Sydney including Dulwich Hill, Earlwood and, from the mid-1930s, Drummoyne (at 54 Cary Street). At one stage prior to the Great Depression of 1929-39 Vic owned two butcher shops in Marrickville, a suburb in the inner west of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Vic lost both shops in the aftermath of the Great Depression. He simply could not allow his customers, who were no longer able to pay for their purchases, to go without food for their family. He paid a high price for his generosity and compassion, for he lost virtually everything. In 1930 more than one in five adult males in NSW Australia was without a job. Australian governments responded to the Great Depression with measures such as cuts to government spending, public service salaries and public works cancellations that, NSW premier Jack Lang (1876-1975) claimed, made circumstances even worse Despite that, Vic was never a supporter of Lang who was NSW premier for two terms (1925-27, 1930-32).
Financially, Vic never recovered from the socio-economic effects of the Depression, but he never allowed himself the luxury of bitterness. A worrier by nature but otherwise full of nervous energy, he got on with the business of living and supporting his family as best he could.
Vic's father Arthur had taken his own life on March 14, 1925. Sadly, on May 26, 1937, Vic's first wife Violet would also take her own life. She was buried with Anglican rites at Woronora General Cemetery, Sutherland NSW. Her death left a huge hole in the hearts and lives of Vic and the two boys Harry and Lloyd.
Vic would marry again the next year. On October 15, 1938, at Drummoyne Baptist Church, Drummoyne, in metropolitan Sydney NSW, he married his housekeeper Hilda May Trollope, and his second marriage--her first--proved to be a most happy one. However, more sadness followed when Vic's half-sister, the above mentioned Elizabeth Emily Fletcher Jones also took her own life, on September 15, 1947, less than three weeks' after her mother's death. Vic often said to his second wife Hilda, 'I will tell you about my broken life one day.' That day never happened.
Although Vic didn't wish for more children, at least at the time he married for the second time in 1938, his second wife had other ideas. Although he wasn't too pleased initially when Hilda announced that she was pregnant, he must have warmed to the idea because before his daughter Beryl was born he purchased a little wooden table and chair set which his daughter still has today, and he cried with joy when she was born on June 27, 1942 at Five Dock, in metropolitan Sydney NSW.
Throughout much of the 1930s and 1940s Vic worked as a labourer and rubber worker at Perdriau & Co Rubber Works at Birkenhead Point, Drummoyne, in metropolitan Sydney NSW. (The Perdriau Rubber Company was established in 1904. In 1929 the company merged with the Dunlop Rubber Company of Australia Ltd, forming Dunlop Perdriau Co Ltd. In 1977 the rubber plant closed down and the site was redeveloped into a waterfront shopping centre with, in more recent years, superadded residential components.)
Subsequently, Vic worked for a time in cold stores near Central Railway, Sydney. However, in his later years he had back trouble and found it difficult to continue working. At the very end of his working life he returned briefly to his trade of butchery, helping out in a butcher's shop in Minto, which was then a small semi-rural village on the outskirts of Campbelltown, New South Wales, 'Australia's first green city', where he lived from early 1946 until his death six years later. (Sidelights. Vic's brother Les, a builder, built the Minto residence 'Como' [in Victoria Road], assisted by Vic himself, in 1945. The parcel of land was apparently purchased from the next door neighbour, Ruby Alma Potter (1881-1964), originally a dressmaker, who apparently sold her spare block to Vic and Hilda. She herself had moved to Minto around 1940. Interestingly, the Potter family's home 'Lynwood' was right across the road from the Trollopes' home 'Summerset' in Burns Crescent, Chiswick. One thing is clear—the Joneses (that is, Vic, Hilda and their young daughter Beryl) moved to Minto after visiting Miss Potter; they noticed the vacant block next door to hers and decided to purchase it.)
Minto, which is named after the 1st Earl of Minto (Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (1751-1814)), and built on land granted to the English-born surgeon Dr William Redfern (1774-1833) by NSW Governor Lachlan Macquarie (1762-1824), was a very small but close-knit community until the late 1960s and '70s when the NSW Housing Commission embarked upon a major public housing development. In the 1940s and '50s the locality was mostly used for dairying and poultry farming. For many years there was little more in the way of shops in the township than a general store, a post office (run by Jim Williams, who had been appointed postmaster in 1916, and his wife), a haberdashery store run by a Mrs Brookfield (which previously had been a general store run by William J ('Bill') Harris) and, for a time, a butcher's shop (run for a time by a Mr Barnsley) where, as already mentioned, Vic helped out for a while. In addition, there was a School of Arts, an Anglican Church (St James), a public school, and a showground.
In his final years at Minto Vic devoted himself to his wife and young daughter Beryl, and busied himself with his caged birds--he was constantly building, knocking down and rebuilding wooden bird cages in his backyard--poultry, cats and dogs. Other hobbies and interests of his over the years included athletics, horse racing, training greyhounds, and gardening. He was a non-drinker who enjoyed rolling his own cigarettes using pipe tobacco and with an automatic cigarette rolling machine. He was a great walker and was involved in competitions when he was young. He always walked at a very smart pace with others trying to keep up with him.
Vic was very close to his older brother Les. The two of them were generous to a fault even though neither was financially well-off. At the railway station they would often 'argue' about who was to pay for the tickets. Each would offer to pay the fares for both. The 'argument' would almost invariably end up with each throwing the other's money off the platform. Both Vic and Les were very close to their half-sister Lil.
Some three years or so before his death Vic contracted pulmonary tuberculosis. He was advised by a doctor to enter a sanatorium but he did not want to leave his family. He fought the illness with great stoicism but ultimately succumbed at his residence in Victoria Road, Minto on September 25, 1952, at the age of 61. (Sidelight. The medical practitioner who certified Vic's death was a Campbelltown general practitioner, Polish-born Abraham Wajnryb MD (1912-1993), a Holocaust survivor.) On the following day Vic was cremated at Rookwood Crematorium with Anglican rites, with the Rev J P Dryland officiating at the service.
Vic's estate was valued for New South Wales probate at AUS £1,076 (AUS $2,152) net [approximately AUS $37,831.28 as at 2015], with probate being granted on June 11, 1953 based on a will dated January 29, 1949. The executor of his estate was his son Harry.
Vic was survived by his second wife Hilda (who had cared lovingly for him during his final illness), his two sons Harry and Lloyd and their respective spouses Phyl and Pat, his daughter Beryl, two grandchildren Marilyn and Kevin, and his brother Les (who would marry Vic's widow Hilda in 1954).
In the words of his brother Les, Vic was 'one of the very best'. His former daughter-in-law Pat remembers Victor as a kind, gentle and sentimental man--'a real softie' who 'would cry at the drop of a hat'. His daughter Beryl remembers her father crying as he listened to the annual Anzac Day march broadcast over the radio, and he would often cry at weddings. Another person who knew him referred to him as a 'top bloke'. He was a gentleman in every sense of the word.
'Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.' Marcus Aurelius, Meditations.
See also Find A Grave Memorials # 158274526 (Violet Victoria Porter Jones), # 159604732 (Hilda May Trollope Pollard), # 159420821 (Arthur William Jones), # 153906745 (John Victor 'Jacky' Jones), # 145071151 (Henry Victor 'Harry' Ellis-Jones), # 135153728 (Lloyd Arthur Jones), # 153906924 (Leslie John Jones) and # 170275811 (Elizabeth Emily Fletcher Jones).
Note. This biographical profile was written by Dr Ian Ellis-Jones, of Sydney NSW Australia, who is the grandson of Victor Arthur Jones. Special thanks are due to Mrs Beryl Martin, Victor's daughter, who provided valuable input, and to Lisa McManus who provided some information on the Potter family.
REFERENCE MATERIAL
Ellis-Jones, H V. Unpublished memoir, letters and other writings, family scrapbooks and miscellaneous records. nd. Collection of I D Ellis-Jones.
OCCUPATION
Master butcher; also milk vendor, bread carter, greyhound trainer and, in later years, rubber worker and cold storage storeman.
PERSONAL AND FAMILY DETAILS
Born March 15, 1891 at Stanmore NSW Australia.
Son of Arthur William Jones (1861-1925), a builder, and Elizabeth Mary [aka Mary Elizabeth/'Minnie'] Garde (1865-1891), a master mariner's daughter.
Married:
(1) Violet Victoria Porter (1895-1937), from 1915 to 1937 (her death), three sons (John Victor, Henry Victor, and Lloyd Arthur).
(2) Hilda May Trollope (1901-1974), from 1938 to 1952 (his death), one daughter (Beryl Jessie).
Father of John Victor Jones (1917-1918), Henry Victor Jones [later Ellis-Jones] (1919-1985), Lloyd Arthur Jones (1922-1995) and Beryl Jessie Jones (born 1942).
Died September 25, 1952 at Minto NSW Australia.
ANCESTRY
Victor's ancestry was Australian, Welsh, English, Irish and Huguenot.
The family of Victor's grandfather William Ellis Jones's wife, Elizabeth Haylock Coote (1826-1898), on the paternal side of her mother Madeline Henrietta Vernezobre (1803-1883), were members of the prominent Huguenot (French Protestant) family, the Vernezobres. The Vernezobre family originally came from Languedoc, in the south of France, to England via Germany in the early 1700s to escape persecution and possibly death at the hands of French Catholics. Elizabeth Haylock Coote's maternal grandfather David John Vernezobre (born 1755) was born in the (then) Dutch colony of Suriname, on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America, and his father Charles A Vernezobre (1724-1775) as well as his parents were born in Amsterdam, Holland. Other family members were born in Prussia and England, among other places.
Interestingly, there was also a Huguenot connection through Victor's mother, Mary Elizabeth [also known as Elizabeth Mary or Minnie] Garde (1865-1886). The Garde family were originally Huguenots.
BIOGRAPHY
Victor Arthur Jones was born in Stanmore NSW Australia on March 15, 1891.
He was a butcher by trade. He broke from the Jones family tradition in becoming a butcher, much against his father's wishes. Almost everyone else in his family, including his father, his paternal grandfather William Ellis Jones (1826-1908), his elder brother Les [Leslie John Jones (1889-1970)], and Les's sons Cyril, Lloyd, Eric and Mervyn, were involved in the building trade.
Vic's mother died from complications from childbirth only 12 days after his birth. Almost immediately after the death of Vic's mother Minnie, Vic and his older brother Les were effectively reared by their late mother's sister Jessie Davis who had a daughter Dorothy (who was about 10 years younger than Vic) and a son. Vic and Les' father Arthur wanted to marry Jessie, who presumably was not married at the time, but that didn't happen. Instead, Arthur married one Emily Sophia Wilmot (1863-1947) in 1892, and one child, a daughter, Elizabeth Emily Fletcher ('Lil' or 'Lily') Jones (1897-1947), was born of that marriage. Lil was the historian of the Jones side of the family and had custody of old family documents and a Bible brought out to Australia from Wales by her paternal grandfather William Ellis Jones.
On October 13, 1915 at St Peters Church of England, in St Peters, in metropolitan Sydney NSW, Vic married Violet Victoria ('Vi') Porter who had been born in North Carlton, Victoria, Australia on September 28, 1895. Her father Alfred John Porter, from Deal, England, was a seaman who at the time of his retirement was chief steward on RMS "Aorangi" II. Violet's early years had been spent in metropolitan Melbourne, Victoria, but later the Porter family had moved to Sydney, New South Wales. Violet had attended state schools around Sydney.
Violet was a most creative and artistic woman. She painted well and also played the piano skilfully. Her other interests included literature, art and swimming. Violet was strict on living ethically. She would say to her sons, 'You can stoop to the gutter and find nothing. Always do the right thing.' Another saying of hers that her son Harry remembered was this, 'Give mercy, but expect none.' It was sound advice for tough and troubled times. It remains good advice.
Three children were born of the marriage. Sadly, the firstborn child, John Victor (Porter) Jones, died from gastroenteritis on December 25, 1918, at the age of 14 months, after being ill for 14 days. The young child's death certificate records Vic's occupation at that time as being a milk vendor. At the time of the birth of Vic's third son Lloyd (October 19, 1922), his occupation was listed in the certificate as bread carter.
The death of a young child, especially a baby or an infant, invariably places strain on a marriage and many marriages collapse under the strain, sometimes as a result of one of the partners unfairly blaming the other for a state of affairs -- real or imagined -- that purportedly led or otherwise contributed to the child's death. It seems that Violet subsequently developed a certain fondness for alcohol and additional strain was placed on the marriage when she began to look outside it for relief.
Although christened Anglicans, Vic and Violet's sons Harry and Lloyd were sent to a nearby Salvation Army Sunday School, mainly because it was close to their home in Terry Street, Sydenham, a suburb in the inner west of Sydney NSW.
Until he moved out of Sydney about the time of the end of World War II Vic lived in various inner west and south-western suburbs of Sydney including Dulwich Hill, Earlwood and, from the mid-1930s, Drummoyne (at 54 Cary Street). At one stage prior to the Great Depression of 1929-39 Vic owned two butcher shops in Marrickville, a suburb in the inner west of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Vic lost both shops in the aftermath of the Great Depression. He simply could not allow his customers, who were no longer able to pay for their purchases, to go without food for their family. He paid a high price for his generosity and compassion, for he lost virtually everything. In 1930 more than one in five adult males in NSW Australia was without a job. Australian governments responded to the Great Depression with measures such as cuts to government spending, public service salaries and public works cancellations that, NSW premier Jack Lang (1876-1975) claimed, made circumstances even worse Despite that, Vic was never a supporter of Lang who was NSW premier for two terms (1925-27, 1930-32).
Financially, Vic never recovered from the socio-economic effects of the Depression, but he never allowed himself the luxury of bitterness. A worrier by nature but otherwise full of nervous energy, he got on with the business of living and supporting his family as best he could.
Vic's father Arthur had taken his own life on March 14, 1925. Sadly, on May 26, 1937, Vic's first wife Violet would also take her own life. She was buried with Anglican rites at Woronora General Cemetery, Sutherland NSW. Her death left a huge hole in the hearts and lives of Vic and the two boys Harry and Lloyd.
Vic would marry again the next year. On October 15, 1938, at Drummoyne Baptist Church, Drummoyne, in metropolitan Sydney NSW, he married his housekeeper Hilda May Trollope, and his second marriage--her first--proved to be a most happy one. However, more sadness followed when Vic's half-sister, the above mentioned Elizabeth Emily Fletcher Jones also took her own life, on September 15, 1947, less than three weeks' after her mother's death. Vic often said to his second wife Hilda, 'I will tell you about my broken life one day.' That day never happened.
Although Vic didn't wish for more children, at least at the time he married for the second time in 1938, his second wife had other ideas. Although he wasn't too pleased initially when Hilda announced that she was pregnant, he must have warmed to the idea because before his daughter Beryl was born he purchased a little wooden table and chair set which his daughter still has today, and he cried with joy when she was born on June 27, 1942 at Five Dock, in metropolitan Sydney NSW.
Throughout much of the 1930s and 1940s Vic worked as a labourer and rubber worker at Perdriau & Co Rubber Works at Birkenhead Point, Drummoyne, in metropolitan Sydney NSW. (The Perdriau Rubber Company was established in 1904. In 1929 the company merged with the Dunlop Rubber Company of Australia Ltd, forming Dunlop Perdriau Co Ltd. In 1977 the rubber plant closed down and the site was redeveloped into a waterfront shopping centre with, in more recent years, superadded residential components.)
Subsequently, Vic worked for a time in cold stores near Central Railway, Sydney. However, in his later years he had back trouble and found it difficult to continue working. At the very end of his working life he returned briefly to his trade of butchery, helping out in a butcher's shop in Minto, which was then a small semi-rural village on the outskirts of Campbelltown, New South Wales, 'Australia's first green city', where he lived from early 1946 until his death six years later. (Sidelights. Vic's brother Les, a builder, built the Minto residence 'Como' [in Victoria Road], assisted by Vic himself, in 1945. The parcel of land was apparently purchased from the next door neighbour, Ruby Alma Potter (1881-1964), originally a dressmaker, who apparently sold her spare block to Vic and Hilda. She herself had moved to Minto around 1940. Interestingly, the Potter family's home 'Lynwood' was right across the road from the Trollopes' home 'Summerset' in Burns Crescent, Chiswick. One thing is clear—the Joneses (that is, Vic, Hilda and their young daughter Beryl) moved to Minto after visiting Miss Potter; they noticed the vacant block next door to hers and decided to purchase it.)
Minto, which is named after the 1st Earl of Minto (Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (1751-1814)), and built on land granted to the English-born surgeon Dr William Redfern (1774-1833) by NSW Governor Lachlan Macquarie (1762-1824), was a very small but close-knit community until the late 1960s and '70s when the NSW Housing Commission embarked upon a major public housing development. In the 1940s and '50s the locality was mostly used for dairying and poultry farming. For many years there was little more in the way of shops in the township than a general store, a post office (run by Jim Williams, who had been appointed postmaster in 1916, and his wife), a haberdashery store run by a Mrs Brookfield (which previously had been a general store run by William J ('Bill') Harris) and, for a time, a butcher's shop (run for a time by a Mr Barnsley) where, as already mentioned, Vic helped out for a while. In addition, there was a School of Arts, an Anglican Church (St James), a public school, and a showground.
In his final years at Minto Vic devoted himself to his wife and young daughter Beryl, and busied himself with his caged birds--he was constantly building, knocking down and rebuilding wooden bird cages in his backyard--poultry, cats and dogs. Other hobbies and interests of his over the years included athletics, horse racing, training greyhounds, and gardening. He was a non-drinker who enjoyed rolling his own cigarettes using pipe tobacco and with an automatic cigarette rolling machine. He was a great walker and was involved in competitions when he was young. He always walked at a very smart pace with others trying to keep up with him.
Vic was very close to his older brother Les. The two of them were generous to a fault even though neither was financially well-off. At the railway station they would often 'argue' about who was to pay for the tickets. Each would offer to pay the fares for both. The 'argument' would almost invariably end up with each throwing the other's money off the platform. Both Vic and Les were very close to their half-sister Lil.
Some three years or so before his death Vic contracted pulmonary tuberculosis. He was advised by a doctor to enter a sanatorium but he did not want to leave his family. He fought the illness with great stoicism but ultimately succumbed at his residence in Victoria Road, Minto on September 25, 1952, at the age of 61. (Sidelight. The medical practitioner who certified Vic's death was a Campbelltown general practitioner, Polish-born Abraham Wajnryb MD (1912-1993), a Holocaust survivor.) On the following day Vic was cremated at Rookwood Crematorium with Anglican rites, with the Rev J P Dryland officiating at the service.
Vic's estate was valued for New South Wales probate at AUS £1,076 (AUS $2,152) net [approximately AUS $37,831.28 as at 2015], with probate being granted on June 11, 1953 based on a will dated January 29, 1949. The executor of his estate was his son Harry.
Vic was survived by his second wife Hilda (who had cared lovingly for him during his final illness), his two sons Harry and Lloyd and their respective spouses Phyl and Pat, his daughter Beryl, two grandchildren Marilyn and Kevin, and his brother Les (who would marry Vic's widow Hilda in 1954).
In the words of his brother Les, Vic was 'one of the very best'. His former daughter-in-law Pat remembers Victor as a kind, gentle and sentimental man--'a real softie' who 'would cry at the drop of a hat'. His daughter Beryl remembers her father crying as he listened to the annual Anzac Day march broadcast over the radio, and he would often cry at weddings. Another person who knew him referred to him as a 'top bloke'. He was a gentleman in every sense of the word.
'Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.' Marcus Aurelius, Meditations.
See also Find A Grave Memorials # 158274526 (Violet Victoria Porter Jones), # 159604732 (Hilda May Trollope Pollard), # 159420821 (Arthur William Jones), # 153906745 (John Victor 'Jacky' Jones), # 145071151 (Henry Victor 'Harry' Ellis-Jones), # 135153728 (Lloyd Arthur Jones), # 153906924 (Leslie John Jones) and # 170275811 (Elizabeth Emily Fletcher Jones).
Note. This biographical profile was written by Dr Ian Ellis-Jones, of Sydney NSW Australia, who is the grandson of Victor Arthur Jones. Special thanks are due to Mrs Beryl Martin, Victor's daughter, who provided valuable input, and to Lisa McManus who provided some information on the Potter family.
REFERENCE MATERIAL
Ellis-Jones, H V. Unpublished memoir, letters and other writings, family scrapbooks and miscellaneous records. nd. Collection of I D Ellis-Jones.
Master butcher; also milk vendor, bread carter, greyhound trainer and, in later years, rubber worker and cold storage storeman.
PERSONAL AND FAMILY DETAILS
Born March 15, 1891 at Stanmore NSW Australia.
Son of Arthur William Jones (1861-1925), a builder, and Elizabeth Mary [aka Mary Elizabeth/'Minnie'] Garde (1865-1891), a master mariner's daughter.
Married:
(1) Violet Victoria Porter (1895-1937), from 1915 to 1937 (her death), three sons (John Victor, Henry Victor, and Lloyd Arthur).
(2) Hilda May Trollope (1901-1974), from 1938 to 1952 (his death), one daughter (Beryl Jessie).
Father of John Victor Jones (1917-1918), Henry Victor Jones [later Ellis-Jones] (1919-1985), Lloyd Arthur Jones (1922-1995) and Beryl Jessie Jones (born 1942).
Died September 25, 1952 at Minto NSW Australia.
ANCESTRY
Victor's ancestry was Australian, Welsh, English, Irish and Huguenot.
The family of Victor's grandfather William Ellis Jones's wife, Elizabeth Haylock Coote (1826-1898), on the paternal side of her mother Madeline Henrietta Vernezobre (1803-1883), were members of the prominent Huguenot (French Protestant) family, the Vernezobres. The Vernezobre family originally came from Languedoc, in the south of France, to England via Germany in the early 1700s to escape persecution and possibly death at the hands of French Catholics. Elizabeth Haylock Coote's maternal grandfather David John Vernezobre (born 1755) was born in the (then) Dutch colony of Suriname, on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America, and his father Charles A Vernezobre (1724-1775) as well as his parents were born in Amsterdam, Holland. Other family members were born in Prussia and England, among other places.
Interestingly, there was also a Huguenot connection through Victor's mother, Mary Elizabeth [also known as Elizabeth Mary or Minnie] Garde (1865-1886). The Garde family were originally Huguenots.
BIOGRAPHY
Victor Arthur Jones was born in Stanmore NSW Australia on March 15, 1891.
He was a butcher by trade. He broke from the Jones family tradition in becoming a butcher, much against his father's wishes. Almost everyone else in his family, including his father, his paternal grandfather William Ellis Jones (1826-1908), his elder brother Les [Leslie John Jones (1889-1970)], and Les's sons Cyril, Lloyd, Eric and Mervyn, were involved in the building trade.
Vic's mother died from complications from childbirth only 12 days after his birth. Almost immediately after the death of Vic's mother Minnie, Vic and his older brother Les were effectively reared by their late mother's sister Jessie Davis who had a daughter Dorothy (who was about 10 years younger than Vic) and a son. Vic and Les' father Arthur wanted to marry Jessie, who presumably was not married at the time, but that didn't happen. Instead, Arthur married one Emily Sophia Wilmot (1863-1947) in 1892, and one child, a daughter, Elizabeth Emily Fletcher ('Lil' or 'Lily') Jones (1897-1947), was born of that marriage. Lil was the historian of the Jones side of the family and had custody of old family documents and a Bible brought out to Australia from Wales by her paternal grandfather William Ellis Jones.
On October 13, 1915 at St Peters Church of England, in St Peters, in metropolitan Sydney NSW, Vic married Violet Victoria ('Vi') Porter who had been born in North Carlton, Victoria, Australia on September 28, 1895. Her father Alfred John Porter, from Deal, England, was a seaman who at the time of his retirement was chief steward on RMS "Aorangi" II. Violet's early years had been spent in metropolitan Melbourne, Victoria, but later the Porter family had moved to Sydney, New South Wales. Violet had attended state schools around Sydney.
Violet was a most creative and artistic woman. She painted well and also played the piano skilfully. Her other interests included literature, art and swimming. Violet was strict on living ethically. She would say to her sons, 'You can stoop to the gutter and find nothing. Always do the right thing.' Another saying of hers that her son Harry remembered was this, 'Give mercy, but expect none.' It was sound advice for tough and troubled times. It remains good advice.
Three children were born of the marriage. Sadly, the firstborn child, John Victor (Porter) Jones, died from gastroenteritis on December 25, 1918, at the age of 14 months, after being ill for 14 days. The young child's death certificate records Vic's occupation at that time as being a milk vendor. At the time of the birth of Vic's third son Lloyd (October 19, 1922), his occupation was listed in the certificate as bread carter.
The death of a young child, especially a baby or an infant, invariably places strain on a marriage and many marriages collapse under the strain, sometimes as a result of one of the partners unfairly blaming the other for a state of affairs -- real or imagined -- that purportedly led or otherwise contributed to the child's death. It seems that Violet subsequently developed a certain fondness for alcohol and additional strain was placed on the marriage when she began to look outside it for relief.
Although christened Anglicans, Vic and Violet's sons Harry and Lloyd were sent to a nearby Salvation Army Sunday School, mainly because it was close to their home in Terry Street, Sydenham, a suburb in the inner west of Sydney NSW.
Until he moved out of Sydney about the time of the end of World War II Vic lived in various inner west and south-western suburbs of Sydney including Dulwich Hill, Earlwood and, from the mid-1930s, Drummoyne (at 54 Cary Street). At one stage prior to the Great Depression of 1929-39 Vic owned two butcher shops in Marrickville, a suburb in the inner west of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Vic lost both shops in the aftermath of the Great Depression. He simply could not allow his customers, who were no longer able to pay for their purchases, to go without food for their family. He paid a high price for his generosity and compassion, for he lost virtually everything. In 1930 more than one in five adult males in NSW Australia was without a job. Australian governments responded to the Great Depression with measures such as cuts to government spending, public service salaries and public works cancellations that, NSW premier Jack Lang (1876-1975) claimed, made circumstances even worse Despite that, Vic was never a supporter of Lang who was NSW premier for two terms (1925-27, 1930-32).
Financially, Vic never recovered from the socio-economic effects of the Depression, but he never allowed himself the luxury of bitterness. A worrier by nature but otherwise full of nervous energy, he got on with the business of living and supporting his family as best he could.
Vic's father Arthur had taken his own life on March 14, 1925. Sadly, on May 26, 1937, Vic's first wife Violet would also take her own life. She was buried with Anglican rites at Woronora General Cemetery, Sutherland NSW. Her death left a huge hole in the hearts and lives of Vic and the two boys Harry and Lloyd.
Vic would marry again the next year. On October 15, 1938, at Drummoyne Baptist Church, Drummoyne, in metropolitan Sydney NSW, he married his housekeeper Hilda May Trollope, and his second marriage--her first--proved to be a most happy one. However, more sadness followed when Vic's half-sister, the above mentioned Elizabeth Emily Fletcher Jones also took her own life, on September 15, 1947, less than three weeks' after her mother's death. Vic often said to his second wife Hilda, 'I will tell you about my broken life one day.' That day never happened.
Although Vic didn't wish for more children, at least at the time he married for the second time in 1938, his second wife had other ideas. Although he wasn't too pleased initially when Hilda announced that she was pregnant, he must have warmed to the idea because before his daughter Beryl was born he purchased a little wooden table and chair set which his daughter still has today, and he cried with joy when she was born on June 27, 1942 at Five Dock, in metropolitan Sydney NSW.
Throughout much of the 1930s and 1940s Vic worked as a labourer and rubber worker at Perdriau & Co Rubber Works at Birkenhead Point, Drummoyne, in metropolitan Sydney NSW. (The Perdriau Rubber Company was established in 1904. In 1929 the company merged with the Dunlop Rubber Company of Australia Ltd, forming Dunlop Perdriau Co Ltd. In 1977 the rubber plant closed down and the site was redeveloped into a waterfront shopping centre with, in more recent years, superadded residential components.)
Subsequently, Vic worked for a time in cold stores near Central Railway, Sydney. However, in his later years he had back trouble and found it difficult to continue working. At the very end of his working life he returned briefly to his trade of butchery, helping out in a butcher's shop in Minto, which was then a small semi-rural village on the outskirts of Campbelltown, New South Wales, 'Australia's first green city', where he lived from early 1946 until his death six years later. (Sidelights. Vic's brother Les, a builder, built the Minto residence 'Como' [in Victoria Road], assisted by Vic himself, in 1945. The parcel of land was apparently purchased from the next door neighbour, Ruby Alma Potter (1881-1964), originally a dressmaker, who apparently sold her spare block to Vic and Hilda. She herself had moved to Minto around 1940. Interestingly, the Potter family's home 'Lynwood' was right across the road from the Trollopes' home 'Summerset' in Burns Crescent, Chiswick. One thing is clear—the Joneses (that is, Vic, Hilda and their young daughter Beryl) moved to Minto after visiting Miss Potter; they noticed the vacant block next door to hers and decided to purchase it.)
Minto, which is named after the 1st Earl of Minto (Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (1751-1814)), and built on land granted to the English-born surgeon Dr William Redfern (1774-1833) by NSW Governor Lachlan Macquarie (1762-1824), was a very small but close-knit community until the late 1960s and '70s when the NSW Housing Commission embarked upon a major public housing development. In the 1940s and '50s the locality was mostly used for dairying and poultry farming. For many years there was little more in the way of shops in the township than a general store, a post office (run by Jim Williams, who had been appointed postmaster in 1916, and his wife), a haberdashery store run by a Mrs Brookfield (which previously had been a general store run by William J ('Bill') Harris) and, for a time, a butcher's shop (run for a time by a Mr Barnsley) where, as already mentioned, Vic helped out for a while. In addition, there was a School of Arts, an Anglican Church (St James), a public school, and a showground.
In his final years at Minto Vic devoted himself to his wife and young daughter Beryl, and busied himself with his caged birds--he was constantly building, knocking down and rebuilding wooden bird cages in his backyard--poultry, cats and dogs. Other hobbies and interests of his over the years included athletics, horse racing, training greyhounds, and gardening. He was a non-drinker who enjoyed rolling his own cigarettes using pipe tobacco and with an automatic cigarette rolling machine. He was a great walker and was involved in competitions when he was young. He always walked at a very smart pace with others trying to keep up with him.
Vic was very close to his older brother Les. The two of them were generous to a fault even though neither was financially well-off. At the railway station they would often 'argue' about who was to pay for the tickets. Each would offer to pay the fares for both. The 'argument' would almost invariably end up with each throwing the other's money off the platform. Both Vic and Les were very close to their half-sister Lil.
Some three years or so before his death Vic contracted pulmonary tuberculosis. He was advised by a doctor to enter a sanatorium but he did not want to leave his family. He fought the illness with great stoicism but ultimately succumbed at his residence in Victoria Road, Minto on September 25, 1952, at the age of 61. (Sidelight. The medical practitioner who certified Vic's death was a Campbelltown general practitioner, Polish-born Abraham Wajnryb MD (1912-1993), a Holocaust survivor.) On the following day Vic was cremated at Rookwood Crematorium with Anglican rites, with the Rev J P Dryland officiating at the service.
Vic's estate was valued for New South Wales probate at AUS £1,076 (AUS $2,152) net [approximately AUS $37,831.28 as at 2015], with probate being granted on June 11, 1953 based on a will dated January 29, 1949. The executor of his estate was his son Harry.
Vic was survived by his second wife Hilda (who had cared lovingly for him during his final illness), his two sons Harry and Lloyd and their respective spouses Phyl and Pat, his daughter Beryl, two grandchildren Marilyn and Kevin, and his brother Les (who would marry Vic's widow Hilda in 1954).
In the words of his brother Les, Vic was 'one of the very best'. His former daughter-in-law Pat remembers Victor as a kind, gentle and sentimental man--'a real softie' who 'would cry at the drop of a hat'. His daughter Beryl remembers her father crying as he listened to the annual Anzac Day march broadcast over the radio, and he would often cry at weddings. Another person who knew him referred to him as a 'top bloke'. He was a gentleman in every sense of the word.
'Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.' Marcus Aurelius, Meditations.
See also Find A Grave Memorials # 158274526 (Violet Victoria Porter Jones), # 159604732 (Hilda May Trollope Pollard), # 159420821 (Arthur William Jones), # 153906745 (John Victor 'Jacky' Jones), # 145071151 (Henry Victor 'Harry' Ellis-Jones), # 135153728 (Lloyd Arthur Jones), # 153906924 (Leslie John Jones) and # 170275811 (Elizabeth Emily Fletcher Jones).
Note. This biographical profile was written by Dr Ian Ellis-Jones, of Sydney NSW Australia, who is the grandson of Victor Arthur Jones. Special thanks are due to Mrs Beryl Martin, Victor's daughter, who provided valuable input, and to Lisa McManus who provided some information on the Potter family.
REFERENCE MATERIAL
Ellis-Jones, H V. Unpublished memoir, letters and other writings, family scrapbooks and miscellaneous records. nd. Collection of I D Ellis-Jones.
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