When Jack Pontz was born on 21 April 1940, his father, Lester Andrew Pontz, was 46 and his mother, Martha Louise Johnson, was 24. He died in February 2003, at the age of 62.
German: variant of Porz, a habitational name from a town so named near Cologne. The name proves the point that the name (from Latin porta) and the object (‘city gate’) came to the ancient Germanic north with the Romans who introduced construction in stone. Compare Ports .
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