Researching Davy Jones
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 339169 people with the Jones surname? In that year Jones was ranked number 2 for popularity in the UK. |
Records of Davy Jones on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Davy Jones and the Jones Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 393190 people with the Jones surname in the UK? Jones is now ranked number 2 for popularity in the UK. |
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Some Famous People called Davy Jones
Davy Jones (musician)
David Thomas Jones (30 December 1945 – 29 February 2012) was an English musician, singer, actor and businessman. Jones is best known as a member of the band the Monkees and a co-star of the TV series The Monkees (1966–1968). He was considered a teen idol.
Aside from his work on The Monkees TV show, Jones' acting credits include a Tony-nominated performance as the Artful Dodger in the original London and Broadway productions of Oliver! and a guest-starring role in a hallmark episode of The Brady Bunch television show and a later reprised parody film.
Source: Davy Jones (musician), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaDavy Jones (baseball)
David Jefferson Jones (June 30, 1880 – March 30, 1972), nicknamed "Kangaroo", was an outfielder in Major League Baseball. He played fifteen seasons with the Milwaukee Brewers / St. Louis Browns, Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox, and Pittsburgh Rebels. Jones played with some of the early legends of the game, including Ty Cobb, Sam Crawford, Frank Chance, Three Finger Brown, Hugh Duffy and Jesse Burkett. Also, he played part of one year with the Chicago White Sox, where several of his teammates would later be implicated in the 1919 Black Sox scandal. Jones was immortalized in the classic 1966 baseball book The Glory of Their Times by Lawrence Ritter.
Davy Jones was mostly a platoon rather than a full-time player who was decent with the bat and swift on his feet. He played in the major leagues from to, compiling a .270 career batting average with 1,020 hits.
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