Joan Emmett was born on 12 May 1920, in Stockport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom. She married Thomas James Roberts on 4 April 1942, in Moore, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom. She died on 20 February 2005, at the age of 84.
English:
from the Middle English female personal name Emmot, an interchangeable pet form of Emma, first introduced into England from France by the Normans, among whom it was extremely popular. Compare Emm .
habitational name from either Emmot near Colne (Lancashire) or Emmett in Bishop's Tawton (Devon). The former is from Old English ēa-gemōt ‘junction of the streams’. The latter is from Old English emnet ‘plain, level ground’, referring to the flat land here.
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