When Amos D. Johns was born in 1847, in Walworth, Walworth, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Amos Dike Johns, was 35 and his mother, Beaulah Walston, was 41. He died in 1847, at the age of 0, and was buried in East Delavan Union Cemetery, Delavan, Walworth, Wisconsin, United States.
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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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