When Roy Franklin Janes was born on 14 January 1890, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, his father, Thomas John Jane, was 34 and his mother, Mary Jane Leatherland, was 36. He died on 22 October 1898, in his hometown, at the age of 8, and was buried in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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English (southern): variant of Jane , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s (see Jayne ).
Slovenian and Croatian (of Slovenian origin) (Janeš): variant of Slovenian Janež, from an old equivalent of the Latin personal name Johannes (see John ), or a topographic name or metonymic occupational name from janež ‘anise’. Compare Yanes .
Czech (Janeš, Jáneš): from a pet form of the personal name Jan .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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