When Meta Luise Jansen was born on 12 September 1910, in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia, Germany, her father, Bernhard Jansen, was 35 and her mother, Katharina Maria Juergensen, was 33. She died on 22 April 1957, at the age of 46.
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Dutch, Flemish, Norwegian, Danish, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Jan, a shortened vernacular form of Johannes (see John ). In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the variant Janssen . Compare Janson 1 and Johnson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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