Frank E. Peterson

Brief Life History of Frank E.

When Frank E. Peterson was born about 1872, in Rockland, Knox, Maine, United States, his father, James Frank Peterson, II, was 37 and his mother, Mary Eliza Griffin, was 36. He married Sarah May Wight on 25 August 1909, in Belfast, Waldo, Maine, United States. He lived in Rockland, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States in 1930. He died in 1958, in Maine, United States, at the age of 87.

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Frank E. Peterson
1872–1958
Sarah May Wight
1872–1958
Marriage: 25 August 1909

Sources (7)

  • Frank E Peterson, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Frank E. Peterson - birth: about 1872; Rockland, Knox, Maine, United States
  • Frank Edward Peterson, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"

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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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