When John Jacob Tanner was born on 17 July 1763, in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, British North America, his father, Johann George Tanner, was 21 and his mother, Johanna Judith Seelig, was 17. He married Anna Maria Barbara Crouse on 4 February 1783, in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 7 daughters. He died on 10 January 1837, in his hometown, at the age of 73.
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In 1820, Cape Breton Island rejoined Nova Scotia. It is located on the Northeastern part of Nova Scotia. Until then it had been owned by the French until 1763. Than was in British control and a separate colony in 1784.
English (southern) and Dutch: occupational name for a tanner of skins, Middle English tanner, Middle Dutch taenre. The Middle English form derives from Old English tannere, from Late Latin tannarius, reinforced by Old French taneor, from Late Latin tannator; both Late Latin forms derive from a verb tannare, possibly from a Celtic word for the oak, whose bark was used in the process.
German: topographic name from Middle High German tan ‘woods, pine forest’ for someone who lived near such terrain.
German: habitational name for someone from any of several places called Tanne (in the Harz Mountains, Bavaria, East Prussia, Switzerland) or Tann (Hesse, Bavaria), Thann (Bavaria, Austria, Alsace), Tannen (southern Germany, Switzerland), Thannen (Bavaria).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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