When Dorothy Elaine Matson was born on 30 November 1929, in Nyah West, Victoria, Australia, her father, Kenneth Milton Matson, was 31 and her mother, Rita Dorothy Susanna Lewis, was 27. She married Ronald Denis Marshall on 30 May 1950, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She died on 9 October 2003, in Baxter, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 73.
English (Kent and Yorkshire): patronymic, either from the Middle English personal name Matte (see Matt ) + -son, or a shortened form of Mattison or Mattinson , in each case derived from a pet form of Matthew . Alternatively, a variant of the metronymic Madson (‘son of Maud’), with devoicing of /d/ to /t/.
Americanized form (and a rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Matsson: patronymic from the personal name Mats, a short form of Mat(t)hias or Mat(t)heus (see Matthew ).
Americanized form of Danish and Norwegian Madsen and Matsen , cognates of 2 above.
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