Janeway

Janeway
This unusual and interesting surname is an early medieval English name, originally denoting an Italian national, someone from Genoa in the province of Liguria. The name "Janaway(s)" is the medieval English spelling of the Old French word "Genoveis", meaning a Genoese, in Italian, "Genovese". Genoa was an important seaport in the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages and there was a busy trade with England especially in silks and spices. Consequently merchants and master mariners from Genoa were to be found in all the costal and trading towns of Europe. There is some indication that the name "Janaway" was used as a nickname for a clever, resourceful person, since this was the opinion held of the Genoese in medieval times. The modern surname can be found recorded as Jan(n)away(s), Jan(e)way, Gannaway and Jennaway. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of William de Janna, which was dated 1273, in the "Hundred Rolls of Kent", during the reign of King Edward 1, known as "The Hammer of the Scots", 1272 - 1307. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

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  • Janeway — may refer to:Medical* Janeway Children s Health and Rehabilitation Centre, children s hospital * Janeway lesion a medical termPeople* Charles Janeway (1943 2003), immunologist * Charles Alderson Janeway (1909 1981), pediatrician * Eliot Janeway… …   Wikipedia

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  • Janeway-Läsion — Janeway Läsionen sind kleine erythematöse oder hämorrhagische Flecken oder Knoten der Handinnenflächen oder Fußsohlen. Sie sind pathognomonisch für infektiöse (bakterielle) Endokarditis. Meist ist der zugrunde liegende Keim ein Staphylokokkus.[1] …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Janeway lesion — Janeway lesions are non tender, small erythematous or haemorrhagic macular or nodular lesions on the palms or soles only a few millimeters in diameter that are pathognomonic of infective endocarditis.cite journal | last = Farrior | first = J.B. | …   Wikipedia

  • Janeway, signo de — sintomat. Conjunto de lesiones en la piel rojizas que se forman en las palmas de las manos o de los pies en pacientes afectados de una endocarditis bacteriana lenta, como la enfermedad de Jaccoud Osler. Medical Dictionary. 2011 …   Diccionario médico

  • Janeway Children's Health and Rehabilitation Centre — The Janeway Children s Health and Rehabilitation Centre is a children s hospital located in St. John s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.It was founded as the Dr. Charles Alderson Janeway Child Health Centre in 1966 and used the former base… …   Wikipedia

  • Janeway, Eliot — ▪ 1994       U.S. economist and writer (b. Jan. 1, 1913, New York, N.Y. d. Feb. 8, 1993, New York), proposed the controversial and thought provoking theory that political pressures shape economic and market trends and was dubbed Calamity Janeway… …   Universalium

  • Janeway, Elizabeth — ▪ 2006 Elizabeth Ames Hall        American writer (b. Oct. 7, 1913, New York, N.Y. d. Jan. 15, 2005, Rye, N.Y.), was a best selling novelist in the 1940s who transformed herself into a critic, social historian, and feminist. Her popular novels… …   Universalium

  • Janeway lesions — red spots on the palm of the hands caused by a bacterial infection of the heart (see endocarditis). E. G. Janeway (1841 1911), US physician …   Medical dictionary

  • Janeway lesion — Jane·way lesion (jānґwa) [Edward Gamaliel Janeway, American physician, 1841–1911] see under lesion …   Medical dictionary

  • Janeway lesions — red spots on the palm of the hands caused by a bacterial infection of the heart (see endocarditis) [G. Janeway (1841–1911), US physician] …   The new mediacal dictionary

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