Name of “Jack Jones” from Dreda Joyce Jones (nee Trainer b.1920).

Place of birth (Auckland) provided by Sarah Ferguson (nee Churton) b.1970

Name of “John Thomas Harold JONES”, year of birth 1909, from Birth search on New Zealand BDM website in June 2018:
1909/24052. Jones, John Thomas Harold. Mother: Grace. Father: John

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Auckland Central General Roll for 1935, found in June 2018:
Jones, Grace, 2 Canada Street. married
Jones, John, 2 Canada Street. waterside worker
Jones, John Thomas Harold, 2 Canada Street. marble polisher

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Auckland Central General Roll for 1938, found in June 2018:
Jones, John Thomas Harold, 2 Canada Street, C.2. marble polisher
Jones, Jean Elizabeth, 2 Canada Street, C.2. married
Jones, Grace, 2 Canada Street, C.2. married [Mother]

New Zealand, World War II Ballot Lists January 1942, found in June 2018:
Jones, John Thomas Harold, waterside worker, 2 Canada St., Newton, Auckland.

Full date and place of birth, divorced in 1944 in High Court, Auckland from research file27 in June 2018.

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Grey Lynn General Roll for 1946, found in June 2018:
Jones, John Thomas Harold, 202 Richmond Rd, waterside worker

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Auckland Central General Roll for 1949, found in June 2018:
Jones, John Thomas Harold, 125 Wellesley Street, C.1., watersider

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Auckland Central Supplementary Roll No. 1 for 1963, found in June 2018:
Jones, John Thomas Harold, 52A Union St, labourer

From Papers Past found in June 2018:
New Zealand Herald, 12 June 1928, Page 12
POLICE COURT NEWS.
CHARGE ESTABLISHED.
A WITNESS CONGRATULATED.
BREACH OF PROBATION TERM.
Uncorroborated evidence established a charge of indecency against John Thomas Harold Jones, aged 19, stonemason, who pleaded not guilty in the Police Court yesterday before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.
The chief witness, a young woman, said she reported tho matter to the police. Jones was in Middleton Road, Remuera, when she saw him first, but when he was accosted by a policeman in Broadway, Newmarket, it was some little time later. Mistaken identity was accused's defence. "I was never in Middleton Road," he said.
In holding Jones guilty, the magistrate convicted him and ordered him to come up for sentence if called upon within six months.

From Papers Past found in June 2018:
Auckland Star, 25 May 1931, Page 3
COULD NOT REMEMBER.
STONEMASON'S ALLEGED THEFT.
Pleading not guilty, at the Police Court this morning, to a charge of stealing goods valued at 15/10 belonging to some person unknown, and to an alternative charge of receiving, John Thomas Harold Jones (22), a stonemason, said he did not knew where he got the goods from.
"I shouldn't wonder at that, for he is supposed to have had 26 beers," said Detective Sergeant Kelly, who asked for a remand until next Monday.
Accused was remanded on bail.

From Papers Past found in June 2018:
Northern Advocate, 26 May 1931, Page 7
ALLEGED THEFT
SUSPECT’S BAD MEMORY. (Special to "Northern Advocate.”)
AUCKLAND, Monday.
Pleading not guilty at the Police Court to a charge of stealing goods valued at £510, belonging to some person unknown, and to an alternative charge of receiving, John Thomas Harold Jones (32), a stonemason, said he did not know where he got the goods from. “I shouldn’t wonder at that, for he is supposed to have had 26 beers,” said Detective-Sergeant Kelly, who asked for a remand until next Monday. Accused was remanded on bail.

From Papers Past found in June 2018:
New Zealand Herald, 2 June 1931, Page 12
POLICE COURT NEWS
ALLEGATIONS OF THEFT
EARLY MORNING ARREST
A charge of stealing provision*, tobacco and a bathing costume, of a total value of 15s 10d, the property of some person or persons unknown, was denied in the Police Court yesterday by John Thomas Harold Jones, aged 22, stonemason (Mr. Dickson).
Detective-Sergeant Kelly stated that at an early hour on May 24 accused was accosted by a constable in Pitt Street. He could not give a satisfactory explanation as to where he had obtained a number of unwrapped articles found in his possession. lie told the constable that with seven other young men he had been to a farmhouse in Mangere, where he had consumed a considerable quantity of liquor.
The arresting constable stated that when accused was taken into custody he was not intoxicated. With the exception of the bathing costume, all the articles in question were new. "He is young so I will adjourn the case for six months on condition that he takes out a prohibition order," said the magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt.

From Papers Past found in June 2018:
New Zealand Herald, 8 February 1936
INDECENT LANGUAGE
MAN SENT TO PRISON "A MENACE TO WOMEN"
"The evidence leads me to suppose that you are a menace to decent women in the streets, and I do not think you are the sort of man who should be at liberty," said, Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday, when John Thomas Harold Jones, a young man appearing on summons, admitted six charges of using indecent language, and three charges of using insulting language.
Senior-Detective Hall said complaints had been received by the police that a man on a bicycle was making himself a ' nuisance in the Grafton district by : using indecent language to women. Accused was apprehended by Detectives Aplin and Brown, who were patrolling i the district in a motor-car, and be admitted he was the man who had been using indecent language.
Mr. Hall added that accused had been offending in this manner for a period of two years, his practice being to address offensive remarks to every woman he passed on his bicycle. On one occasion in November he was followed by Detective Brown, but made his escape.
Accused was sentenced to six months' imprisonment on one charge, and, on the other charges, was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months' of his discharge from prison.

From Papers Past found in June 2018:
Auckland Star, 17 June 1943, Page 3
DIVORCE GRANTED
A decree nisi was granted to-day bv Mr. Justice Fair in an undefended divorce petition, John Thomas Harold Jones (Mr. Cleal) v. Jean Elizabeth Jones, on the ground of separation by mutual agreement for more, than three years.

New Zealand Herald, 18 June 1943, Page 5
DIVORCE GRANTED
On the ground of separation by agreement, John Thomas Harold Jones (Mr Cleal) was yesterday granted a decree nisi against Jean Elizabeth Jones.

No record of death could be found on the New Zealand BDM website as at March 2024.

Divorce record for 1944 titled, "Jones, John Thomas Harold v Jones, Jean Elizabeth", held in the Auckland repository, and found from the Archives New Zealand Collections website in August 2025.

No record of burial on the Auckland Council Cemetery Search was found in August 2025.