When James Anderson was born on 3 October 1842, in Garthamlock, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Archibald Anderson, was 37 and his mother, Agnes Adamson, was 38. He married Hannah Matilda Cheney on 1 January 1866, in Fairview, Sanpete, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He immigrated to Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1856 and lived in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1851. He registered for military service in 1865. In 1900, at the age of 58, his occupation is listed as farmer in Fairview, Sanpete, Utah, United States. He died on 27 January 1922, in Fairview, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Fairview Pioneer Cemetery, Fairview, Sanpete, 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 NamesANDERSON, JOHN, farmer and stockman, son of Archibald and Agnes Adamson, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, July 28, 1840. His father came to Utah in ‘55, mother and three sons coming in ‘56, crossing the …
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