When Marian Betty Andrews was born on 7 July 1928, in Frackville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Clyde William Andrews, was 29 and her mother, Matilda A Smith, was 30. She died on 28 November 2009, in Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Saint Clair, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States.
English: variant of Andrew , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This is the usual southern English patronymic form, also found in Wales; the Scottish and northern English form is Anderson . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, e.g. Polish Andrzejewski , Slovenian Andrejčič, Serbian and Croatian Andrić (see Andric ), and Czech Ondráček (see Ondracek ).
Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Aindreis or Irish Mac Aindriú, see McAndrew .
History: This was a common name among the early settlers in New England. Robert Andrews emigrated in 1635 from Norwich, England, to Ipswich, MA. Even before 1635, one Thomas Andrews is recorded as being established in Hingham. A certain William Andrews was a member of John Davenport's company, which sailed from Boston in 1638 to found the New Haven colony.
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