When Jasper Long was born in 1609, in Dorchester, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, his father, Joseph James Longe, was 29 and his mother, Elizabeth Emary, was 27.
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English and French: nickname for a tall person, from Old English lang, long, Old French long ‘long, tall’ (equivalent to Latin longus). Compare Dulong and Lelong .
Irish (Ulster and Munster): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Longáin (see Langan ).
German: variant of Lang ‘long’ and, in North America, also an altered form (translation into English) of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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