Claim: Jones of Faerdref Uchaf a Welsh gentry family from the parish at Merionethshire which they have a cadet branch of the Hughes of Gwerclas family; additionally, the ancestor of the family was John ap Rhydderch ap John ap Hywel ap Gruffydd ap Rhys, of Faerdref Uchaf, who appears in the visitations of Wales in 1594.
Evidence: They are a cadet branch of the Hughes of Gwerclas family, descending from the younger brother of the 7th Baron of Kymmer-yn-Edeirnion, Gruffydd ap Rhys ab Ieuan (d. 1489), 'Baron of and Branas', who was famed for his pilgrimage to Santiago di Compostella.