When Christian Jacobison was born on 7 August 1667, in Haddingtonshire, Scotland, her father, Charles Jakobsone, was 29 and her mother, Margaret Macnab, was 29. She married William Johnston on 12 July 1698. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Haddington, Haddingtonshire, Scotland in 1667.
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English, Swedish, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): patronymic from the personal name Jacob denoting ‘Jacob's son’. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, including Scandinavian (see 2 below) and, in some cases, Croatian Jakobović (which is from the personal name Jakob ).
Americanized form of Swedish Jacobsson or Jakobsson and Danish, Norwegian, North German, or Dutch Jacobsen or Jakobsen , all cognates of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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