Brief Life History of John Ryan
John Ryan Anderson was born on 11 March 1931, in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. He died on 12 October 1992, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States, at the age of 61.
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- John R Anderson in entry for Robert Browning Unmussig and Debra Ann Anderson Bowdoin, "Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988"
- John Ryan Anderson in entry for Bernard Benjamin Bowdoin and Debra Ann Anderson, "Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988"
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1932
Age 1
1932
Age 1
1941 · Pentagon is Built in Arlington
Age 10
Name Meaning
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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