When Niels Peter Anderson was born on 13 April 1874, in Hjørring, Denmark, his father, Niels Andersen, was 36 and his mother, Anna Christensen, was 24. He married Ada Lena Nielson on 9 August 1905, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Elsinore Election Precinct, Sevier, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 6 June 1951, in Elsinore, Sevier, Utah, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Elsinore, Sevier, 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.
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Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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