When John Bean was born about 1722, his father, Johannes Biehn, was 71 and his mother, Marieke Van Fossen, was 30. He married Catharine M Cassel in 1753, in Skippack Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States in 1790. He died about 1800, in Worcester Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Lower Skippack Mennonite Cemetery, Skippack, Skippack Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States.
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English: nickname for a pleasant person, from Middle English bēne ‘friendly, amiable’.
English: metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of beans, from Middle English bene ‘bean’ (Old English bēan ‘beans’, a collective singular). The broad bean, Vicia faba, was a staple food in Europe in the Middle Ages. The green bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, came from South America and was not introduced to Europe until the late 16th century. The word bene was commonly used to denote something of little worth, and occasionally it may have been applied as a nickname for someone considered insignificant.
English: possibly a habitational or topographic name. Redmonds, Dictionary of Yorkshire Surnames, cites Adam del Bene of Harrogate (1351) as evidence to suggest that in the Harrogate area, where the Yorkshire name later proliferated, it may have been derived from a place where beans grew.
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