Brief Life History of Olof
When Olof Anderson was born on 8 January 1818, in Sweden, his father, Anders Olsson, was 32 and his mother, Katarina Eriksdotter, was 26. He died on 2 May 1829, at the age of 11.
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Sources (2)
- Olof Andersson, "Sweden Baptisms, 1611-1920"
- Household Examination Record Sweden, Värmland Church Records, 1509-1925; index 1640-1860; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DCSC-BN?cc=1978776&wc=Q66Y-SM7%3A260752301%2C260757002%2C261201401
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Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.
German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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