Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas Anderson was born on 24 June 1888, in Govan, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Peter Martin Anderson, was 30 and his mother, Helen Marshall Malcolm, was 26. He married Lydia Berneice Robinson on 19 June 1917, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Barrow in Furness, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1891 and United States in 1949. He died on 16 October 1963, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Wahsatch, Summit, Utah, United States.
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- Thomas Anderson, "United States 1950 Census"
- Certified copy of an Entry Of Birth for Thomas Anderson
- Thomas Anderson, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1890 · Opening of the Forth Railway Bridge.
The Forth Bridge is a railway bridge across the Firth of Forth river in the east of Scotland, 9 miles west of Edinburgh City Center. It is considered as a symbol of Scotland and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was opened on 4 March and was the longest single cantilever bridge span in the world until 1919. It is still in operation.
1908
London, United Kingdom hosts Summer Olympic Games.
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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