When Margaret Jane Jordan was born in 1855, in Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States, her father, Samson Harrison Jordan, was 26 and her mother, Jane Elizabeth Steele, was 32. She married John Robert Pethel on 22 October 1874, in Rowan, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Atwell Township, Rowan, North Carolina, United States in 1880. She died about 1884, in Rowan, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 30.
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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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