Brief Life History of Peterson
When Peterson was born in April 1928, in Afton, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States, his father, Fielding Bruce Peterson, was 23 and his mother, Blanche Eunice Lynch, was 22. He died in April 1928, in his hometown, at the age of 0.
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Family Time Line
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- Legacy NFS Source: Peterson - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Peterson
Parents and Siblings
1904–1958 Male
1906–1968 Female
Siblings (4)
1928–1928 Male
1929–1929 Male
1938–2023 Female
1945– Female
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, e.g. Norwegian and Danish Pedersen and Pettersen and their Swedish cognates (see 2 below), Polish Piotrowicz , Slovenian Petrič, Petrovčič, and Petrovič (see Petric , Petrovic ).
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Petersson, a cognate of 1 above, and also of its variant Pettersson . Compare 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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