where did they get the name john doe
John Doe The name "John Doe" (or "John Doo"), "Richard Roe," along with "John Roe", were regularly invoked in English legal instruments to satisfy technical requirements governing standing and jurisdiction, beginning perhaps as early as the reign of England's King Edward III (1327â€“1377).[6] Other fictitious names for a person involved in litigation in medieval English law were "John Noakes" (or "Nokes") and "John-a-Stiles" (or "John Stiles").[7]
Myers Myers is an English, Dutch and German origin surname. The English surname traces its origins to Anglo-Saxon England, from the Old English word maire (originally maior) meaning "mayor".[1] The German origin of the surname Myers has the meaning "steward or bailiff," as in the magistrate of a city or town. The English origin of the surname has two possible sources: from the Old French mire meaning "physician" or the Old Norse myrr meaning "marsh".[2]