Brief Life History of Herbert
Herbert Anderson was born on 6 March 1914, in South Australia, Australia as the son of Selena Anderson. He died on 21 April 1970, in his hometown, at the age of 56.
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World Events (3)
1918
Australian troops sent to fight in South African War.
1918
Battle on the Somme. Australian forces capture Mont St. Quentin.
1921
Edith Cowan is elected to the Western Australia Parlaiment. She is the first woman parliamentarian in Australia.
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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