When George Johns was born on 11 May 1860, in Cove, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Johns, was 32 and his mother, Elizabeth Edgell, was 27. He lived in Surrey, England, United Kingdom in 1861. He died in March 1879, in Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 18.
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English and Welsh: variant of John with genitival or excrescent -s, or a variant of Jones . It is common in Cornwall and Devon, south Wales, the West Midlands and Lancashire. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, such as Albanian Gjonaj or any other Albanian patronymic from the personal name Gjon ‘John’ and its variants or derivatives; see also examples at Johnson .
German: patronymic from John or a shortened form of Johannes .
Americanized form of Swiss German Schantz .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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