When Andreas John Anderson was born on 27 April 1851, in Glömserud, Västra Götaland, Sweden, his father, Andreas Andersson, was 34 and his mother, Stina Caisa Andersdotter, was 30. He married Isabella Melissa Judd on 19 January 1874, in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 9 daughters. He immigrated to Castle Garden, New York County, New York, United States in 1860 and lived in Grantsville, Tooele, Utah, United States in 1920. He registered for military service in 1871. He died on 6 December 1928, in Declo, Cassia, Idaho, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Grantsville, Tooele, Utah, United States.
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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.
Possible Related NamesFrank L. Clark was born July 22, 1877 in Grantsville, Utah, to Thomas Henry Clark and Rachel Susan Hale Clark. Teresa Belle Anderson was born Nov.11, 1875 in Grantsville Utah, to John Andreas Anderso …
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