When Hilda Persdotter Anderson was born on 11 November 1859, in Ledsjö, Skaraborg, Sweden, her father, Pehr Andersson, was 39 and her mother, Maria Catharina Larsson, was 40. She married John August Eriksson on 23 February 1882, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She immigrated to Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1866 and lived in Salmon, Lemhi, Idaho, United States in 1910 and Grantsville, Tooele, Utah, United States for about 30 years. She died on 1 January 1968, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 108, and was buried in Grantsville City Cemetery, 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.
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