Tom Jones might have been known as a great Welsh singer for a long time, but he is actually three-quarters English, if his family history is to be believed. As per the 1911 census that were released for the first time on June 9, the singer had just one grandparent who was of Welsh blood, while the other three had parents from the West Country.
During his long career, which took off in the mid-1960s, Sir Jones, 69, had made much of his Welsh origins. 
His father was a coal miner and he was born in Pontypridd and describes himself as a “proud, proud Welshman”. The census records for 1911 show his paternal grandparents were James Woodward, an ironmonger’s haulier born in Gloucestershire, and Anne Woodward, from Wiltshire.
His paternal grandparents, James and Anne Woodward, were born in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire respectively, while his maternal grandmother was one of the star’s few ancestors to have laid down early roots in Wales.
Details from the 1911 Census revealed that Ada Jones, the Grammy Award-winning singer’s maternal grandmother, was born in Jones’ hometown of Pontypridd, but even her lineage can be traced east of the border, as the old Government texts showed that her mother and father lived in Somerset and Wiltshire.
The singer’s only true Welsh-blooded ancestor was his great grandfather, Albert Jones, registered in the census as a miner born in Cardiff.
However, the 67-year-old of Nefyn, Gwynedd, who turned her home into a museum dedicated to Jones, added: “He many have English blood but it pumps through a Welsh heart. He is all Welsh".
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Sir Tom Jones is more English than Welsh, reveal family records
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