Owen Faulkes Jones was born in 1812 in Pentraeth, Anglesey, Wales. He married his wife Ann Pritchard in Wales, and they had three children: Mary (b. ci. 1848), John (b. ci. 1853), and William F (b. June 15, 1854). The family resided in Llanddyfnan, Anglesey, Wales from the 1850s through the 1880s. Owen died in Pembrokeshire, Wales on December 18, 1885.