sketcher and poet, grew up at Park, near Oswestry, Wales, where she was raised as a family member by her cousins, the Kinchants. According to Stanley Leighton , Mrs Kinchant refused to have anything further to do with her after she married Henry Jones, son of a tanner of Welshpool, so after touring the Continent, the pair migrated to South Australia. There Henry became a successful and wealthy squatter, owner of Binnum Binnum Station from the 1840s, while 'the pretty and ladylike’ Mrs Jones, said Leighton, '“queened” it over the ladies of the bush; she had a scrap-book full of her own poetry and she drew a little too’. Leighton attended a ball at Binnum Binnum in 1868, by which time there were two sons, Redmond and Caton, 'both nice boys’.
The family apparently returned to Britain soon afterwards in order to educate the lads and some of Mrs Jones’s watercolour sketches of South Australian subjects remain in a private collection there. She may have been the 'Jones’ who painted snow scenes and sent them to the 1859 exhibition of the South Australian Society of Arts, and/or the 'Jones’ who painted a view of Tintern Abbey, which Mr Hodgkiss lent to the same exhibition.
- Writers:
- Staff Writer
- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
