Nicholas Church in Harwich a few months after his first wife's Sara's death in 1603. Jones married his second wife, Josian Gray (nГ©e Thompson), widow of Richard Gray, age 19, at St. Sara had no more children and died at age 27. But the Church Burial Register records the infant's death on 17 April 1596. Within a year of his marriage to Sara they had a boy named Thomas, after Sara's father. The two families combined their shipping interests to mutual advantage. At his death, her father provided considerable funds for her and a 1/12 share in his ship Apollo. Sara had a wealthy father, Thomas Twitt, who had strong shipping interests. She was Jones' neighbour, living opposite each other on Kings Head Street, Harwich both residences still exist as visitor attractions. She was aged 17 and had been born about 1576. Nicholas Church, Harwich on 27 December 1593. The family home of Christopher Jones' first wife Sara Twitt is across from the Jones home on Kings Head Street and is now a hostelry, the Alma. Jones' mother Sybil married Robert Russell after his father's death and continued to reside at the Jones family home on Kings Head Street in Harwich which is presently a visitor attraction. The senior Jones was also a mariner and ship owner who died in 1578, leaving to his young son, bearing his name, his interest in the ship Marie Fortune when he should attain the age of eighteen years. Christopher Jones is believed to have been born in Harwich, Essex around 1570, although baptismal records are blank for his parish church for the period of time between April 1565 and June 1571.

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