Over 200 pages of records including transcribed wills, land and court documents, and merchant records. Primarily Somerset, Dorset and London, including merchant activity of the London family within Colonial Virginia. Also there are some records for Devon, Gloucester, and Oxford.The records document the changes made to the surname by various families. The wills are primarily from 1550's throught 1700 and the various records are from the 1300's through the 1700's.Surname variations Jeanes, Jean, Janes, Jane, Genys, Jenys, Jenis and others.

William Janes immigrated to the United States in 1637 and settled in Northfield, Connecticut.