When Walter Malcolm Anderson was born on 2 August 1907, in Portage, Porter, Indiana, United States, his father, Nels Anderson, was 46 and his mother, Amanda Johnson, was 35. He married Marjorie Cuson on 3 July 1926, in Lake, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Portage Township, Porter, Indiana, United States in 1940. He died on 23 March 1991, in Indiana, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Portage, Porter, Indiana, United States.
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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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