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Jones (Belville)
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Belville in the parish of Ballyloughloe, county Westmeath, was the home of the Jones family. It was a small estate, in the mid-nineteenth century, confined to the townland of Belville, 242 acres. Gustavus Robert Jones was the son of Gustavus Jones and his wife Susan Margaret Holmes of the Moycashel family. Gustavus R Jones had two sisters who were married to Thomas Elwood of Strandhill, County Mayo and Archdeacon Trench. He married Hester E Butler Bryan. By the mid-1870s he appears to have been living in Cong, county Mayo, the home of the Elwood family, when he was recorded as the owner of 242 acres in county Westmeath. At the time of both the 1901 and 1911 censuses he was described as a widower living at Greaghans in the parish of Hollymount, county Mayo with his two nieces, Alice and Hester Elwood. In the 1870s Gustavus Robert Jones of Galway owned 709 acres in county Tipperary. He was a member of the Jones family of Belville, county Westmeath, see Irish Chancery Reports, Vol 13, page 416.
The Jones family of Moate were related to the Belville family (O'Brien). On 12 December 1837 William Jones of the city of London executed a deed with Edward C Browne of Paradise Row, Dublin, to bar the entail on the townland of Jones Lake, (Abstracts of Deeds Inrolled in Chancery 1834-1839, (1840), 115).
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