When Daniel Jansen was born on 8 May 1749, in Klütz, Kreis Nordwestmecklenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, his father, Juergen Otto Jansen, was 37 and his mother, Catharina Margaretha Ovens, was 33. He married Dorothea Maria Wedderkopp on 15 October 1773, in Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 1 August 1798, in Neukirchen, Tondern, Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia, Germany, at the age of 49, and was buried in Neukirchen, Quern, Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia, Germany.
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Dutch, Flemish, Norwegian, Danish, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Jan, a shortened vernacular form of Johannes (see John ). In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the variant Janssen . Compare Janson 1 and Johnson .
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