When Joseph Jordan was born on 18 January 1716, in Isle of Wight, Virginia, United States, his father, Richard Jordan, was 45 and his mother, Rebecca Ratcliff, was 31. He married Patience Ricks in 1746, in Isle of Wight, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Seaboard, Northampton, North Carolina, United States in 1880. He died after 21 February 1789, in Northampton, North Carolina, United States, and was buried in Isle of Wight, Virginia, United States.
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English, German, French (mainly Alsace and Haute-Savoie), Polish, Czech, and Slovenian; Spanish and Hungarian (Jordán): from the Christian personal name or nickname Jordan. This is taken from the name of the river Jordan (Hebrew Yarden, a derivative of yarad ‘to go down’, i.e. to the Dead Sea). At the time of the Crusades it was a common practice for crusaders and pilgrims to bring back flasks of water from the river in which John the Baptist had baptized people, including Christ himself, and to use it in the christening of their own children. As a result Jordan became quite a common personal name.
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