When Philip Christiáán Janson was born on 17 December 1826, in Cape Town, Cape, Cape Colony, South Africa, his father, Johannes Arnoldus Jansen, was 35 and his mother, Maria Christina Ziedeman, was 31. He married Geertruyda Johanna Eckhard on 15 October 1844, in Cape Town, Cape, Cape Colony, South Africa. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter.
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Sand River Convention. Britain recognizes Transvaal as the independent Afrikaner South African Republic.
Xhosa cattle sacrifices lead to famine.
Diamonds discovered in Orange Free State and Kimberley.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Nils, Lars, Anders, Helmer, Jan-Erik, Johan, Sven. German Kurt, Otto, Reinhard, Ernst, Gerhard, Gotthard, Hans, Juergen, Siegfried, Udo.
Americanized form (and a rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Jansson , a cognate of 4 and 5 below.
Americanized form of Dutch, Flemish, North German, Norwegian, and Danish Jansen and Janssen , cognates of 4 and 5 below.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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