65th Regiment

Hello Sir

Irish Civil records only start in 1864 for Catholics so you will be reliant on Church records and certain other limited resources.

I have done a quick search for Jones in the tithe Applottment books for Louth and was surprised to find 21 listed including 1 Edward Jones but in Point, Dundalk. This town is about 20 miles north of Drogheda and a large town in its own right. The tithe applottment was a church tax on owners / renters of 1 acre and up levied in 1823 to 1837. See http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/home.jsp

On the site here http://www.rootsireland.ie/ifhf/search.phpe you can register and do limited searches for people in most counties but you must pay to see the full register certificate. This site gives you a record of available records too.

Of course the site Family Search is free, this is the Mormon or Church of the Latter Day Saints site.

See https://www.familysearch.org/ There are a number of Edward Jones turn up in Ireland and in Louth but will need filtering to see.

The site run by the Irish Times gives good information on records and family location but you must pay for records.

See http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/  From surname distribution on this site there is good spread of the name Jones but only about 500 families in the entire country.

An excellent site for Louth is http://www.jbhall.freeservers.com/ However while very interesting reading you may not find the exact family.

Also this site has a number of links of Louth interest. http://www.termonfeckinhistory.ie/links_7.html 

Also in the time you are referring Drogheda would have been a major passenger port especially to Liverpool but there are no passenger records as at the time and I think still it is a common travel area.

Regards

Pat