Can we clarify the father of Mary Jones (Lloyd) 1644-1683?

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Can we clarify the father of Mary Jones (Lloyd) 1644-1683? I seen a source that says Col. Roger Jones of Welshpool, Governor of Dublin was her father. Wikitree says Gilbert Jones. Can someone please help?
WikiTree profile: Mary Lloyd
in Genealogy Help by Charles Stuller G2G Rookie (220 points)
edited by Charles Stuller

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It's all explained on the first paragraph of her profile:

Mary Jones was born in 1644 in Welshpool (Y Trallwng), Montgomeryshire, Wales. According to Burke's "Landed Gentry of England," she was the daughter of Colonel Roger Jones, Governor of Dublin in the reign of James II, who defeated the Marquis of Ormond in 1649. However, in the "Collection of Memorials" she is said to have been the daughter of Gilbert Jones, of Welshpool, Wales. A problem arises from the fact that the Colonel Jones who routed the Marquis of Ormond at Rathmines, near Dublin in 1649 had the Christian name, according to both Leland and Plowden, of Michael, not Gilbert or Roger. More importantly, Colonel Michael Jones' family had emigrated from Wales to Ireland in the 16th Century; they were from Merionthshire, not Montgomeryshire, where Welshpool, widely-acknowledged as Mary Jone's birthplace, is located.

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