When Isaac Anderson was born on 14 May 1731, in Norra Sonarp, Jönköping, Sweden, his father, Anders Nilsson, was 36 and his mother, Beata Svensdotter, was 30. He married Lena Svensdotter on 12 June 1764, in Nävelsjö, Jönköping, Sweden. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 18 July 1804, in Sonarp, Jönköping, Sweden, at the age of 73, and was buried in Jönköping, Sweden.
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In Treaty of Abo, Sweden ceded southeast Finland to Russia.
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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