Robert Burnet Jones

Slave-owner and Attorney General in Barbados. Given as 'of Ades in Sussex.' Husband of Elizabeth Susannah Jones (q.v.). Of their daughters, Mary married the 9th Lord Arundell (as his second wife) in 1806; Anna or Ann married the diplomat David Morier; Charlotte married Abraham Parry Cumberbatch (q.v.); and Dorothy married Abel Rous Dottin (q.v.).

1. Robert Burnet Jones, s. Benjamin of Isle of Barbados arm. Matric. Pembroke College Oxford 13/05/1767 aged 17.

2. Will of Robert Burnet Jones proved 14/10/1817. In the will he expressed his desire to be buried in the country not in London. He left his four sons-in-law and five daughters 20 guineas each [for rings presumably]; he left the bulk of his property to his wife subject to £200 p.a. to his son Joseph Jones and to transfers of consols after her death of £5000 (or so much as would bring his previous settlements on them up to £5000 each) to his daughters Charlotte Cumberbatch, Ann [sic] and David Morier (on whom he had previously settled £3000), his son Henry Jones (then in the East Indies) and his son Joseph Jones. He had already transferred £5000 to his son John Applewhaite Jones clerk. He left £1500 to be divided among his grandchildren, the children of Lord and Lady Arundell; and £1500 among his Cumberbatch grandchildren.

For Ades, see E.g Burke's Commoners 1836.

1. Ancestry.com, Oxford University Alumni, 1500-1886 [database online]

2. PROB 11/1597/182