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Jan Family Crest
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Where did the English Jan family come from? What is the English Jan family crest and coat of arms? When did the Jan family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Jan family history?

The Jan surname is a patronymic name created from the personal name Jan, which was a Middle English variant of the name John.

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Anglo-Norman names are characterized by a multitude of spelling variations. When the Normans became the ruling people of England in the 11th century, they introduced a new language into a society where the main languages of Old and later Middle English had no definite spelling rules. These languages were more often spoken than written, so they blended freely with one another. Contributing to this mixing of tongues was the fact that medieval scribes spelled words according to sound, ensuring that a person's name would appear differently in nearly every document in which it was recorded. The name has been spelled Janes, Jans, J'Anes, Jeanne, Jeynes, Jayne, Jane and many more.

First found in Worcester, where they held a family seat from very early. They were also found early in Cornwall, where a record in the Ministers' Accounts of the Earldom of Cornwall shows a Simon Ianes in 1297. A John Janne was listed in the Subsidy Rolls for Cornwall in 1327, and a William Jan was listed in the Subsidy Rolls of Somerset in that same year.


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This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Jan research. Another 248 words(18 lines of text) covering the years 1275, 1499, 1510, and 1620 are included under the topic Early Jan History in all our PDF Extended History products.

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Another 30 words(2 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Jan Notables in all our PDF Extended History products.

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For many English families, the political and religious disarray that plagued their homeland made the frontiers of the New World an attractive prospect. Thousands migrated, aboard cramped disease-ridden ships. They arrived sick, poor, and hungry, but were welcomed in many cases with far greater opportunity than at home in England. Many of these hardy settlers went on to make important contributions to the emerging nations in which they landed. Among early immigrants bearing the name Jan or a variant listed above were:

Jan Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century


  • John Jansson Jan, who landed in Colorado in 1881

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The Jan Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Jan Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.

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