When William Andrews was born on 26 August 1733, in Accomack, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Robert Andrews I, was 66 and his mother, Elizabeth Shepherd, was 69. He married Anna Maria Hall about 1760, in Accomack, Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 7 daughters. He died on 4 April 1777, in Accomack, Virginia, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in Accomack, Virginia, United States.
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English: variant of Andrew , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This is the usual southern English patronymic form, also found in Wales; the Scottish and northern English form is Anderson . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, e.g. Polish Andrzejewski , Slovenian Andrejčič, Serbian and Croatian Andrić (see Andric ), and Czech Ondráček (see Ondracek ).
Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Aindreis or Irish Mac Aindriú, see McAndrew .
History: This was a common name among the early settlers in New England. Robert Andrews emigrated in 1635 from Norwich, England, to Ipswich, MA. Even before 1635, one Thomas Andrews is recorded as being established in Hingham. A certain William Andrews was a member of John Davenport's company, which sailed from Boston in 1638 to found the New Haven colony.
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