Brief Life History of Janna
When Janna Jager was born on 19 March 1797, in Heteren, Gelderland, Netherlands, her father, Derck Jager, was 50 and her mother, Hendrijna van Reeden, was 32. She married Jan Willem Jansen on 19 February 1815, in Hemmen, Gelderland, Netherlands. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 10 daughters. She died on 2 May 1839, in her hometown, at the age of 42.
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- Marriage Record of Jan Jerfaas Jansen & Stintje Blotenburg M. 1874
- Janna Jager, "Netherlands, Archival Indexes, Vital Records, 1600-2000"
- Jantje Jager in entry for Hendrina Jansen, "Netherlands, Archival Indexes, Vital Records, 1600-2000"
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World Events (4)
1799
The United East India Company is liquidated.
1813
The Dutch defeated the French.
1813 · Netherlands Regains Independence
In 1810, when Louis Bonaparte resigned from the throne, the Netherlands was annexed from the French. Finally in 1814, the Netherlands became sovereign and independent.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Bernhard, Dieter, Gunter, Hans, Irmgard, Kurt, Wilhelm, Wolfgang.
German (also Jäger) and Jewish (Ashkenazic; Jäger); Dutch: occupational name for a hunter, from Middle High German jeger(e), Middle Low German jeger(e), Middle Dutch jagher ‘hunter’. See also Jaeger , compare Yager and Yauger .
Slovenian; Slovak (mainly Jáger, also Jäger): occupational name for a hunter, from jager (Slovak jáger), a colloquial loanword from Middle High German (see Jaeger ). This surname is also found in Czechia (also Jáger) and Croatia. Compare Yager .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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