When Rebecca L Peterson was born in 1843, in Blount, Tennessee, United States, her father, William P. Peterson, was 47 and her mother, Rebecca Nancy Brewer, was 49. She married A. M. Fry on 11 December 1860, in Blount, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son.
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.
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