David Jones (missionary)

At 16, he offered himself for service with the London Missionary Society (LMS) and was sent to Gosport for training, with his friend Thomas Bevan.

David Jones would have met at this time Anne Marie Mabille the lady who became his 2nd wife on 20 July 1821, in Port Louis; they would name their first child born about 1823 in Madagascar Lucy.

David Jones would maintain a lifelong association with Lucy Darby's family in Gosport.

David Jones and Marie Anne Mabille would have five children including Lucy their first, who was named after his first wife who had died soon after they arrived in Madagascar.

Directed by the LMS to serve in Madagascar, Jones and Bevan with their families landed at Tamatave from Mauritius in September 1818.