When Alfred Gustav Anderson was born on 22 January 1864, in Hamneda, Kronoberg, Sweden, his father, Johan Anderson, was 34 and his mother, Nilla Hoken Hakansdotter, was 36. He married Eliza Margaret Peterson on 15 March 1892, in Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 2 daughters. He immigrated to Canada in 1902 and lived in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Northwest Territories, Canada in 1911 and Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920. He died on 4 August 1946, in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 82, and was buried in Taber, Alberta, Canada.
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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 NamesAlfred was born in sweden came to utah from denmark with his sister at the age of 15 years old . Alfred made his home in benjamin utah until he got married . After he & eliza were married they moved t …
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