When Mary Ellen Andrews was born on 19 August 1841, in Naunton, Worcestershire, England, her father, John Andrews, was 24 and her mother, Elizabeth Wise, was 26. She married Thomas Beaumont Midgley Jr. on 1 January 1861, in Nephi, Juab, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1900 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1916. She died on 4 February 1916, in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1847: Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States
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English: variant of Andrew , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This is the usual southern English patronymic form, also found in Wales; the Scottish and northern English form is Anderson . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, e.g. Polish Andrzejewski , Slovenian Andrejčič, Serbian and Croatian Andrić (see Andric ), and Czech Ondráček (see Ondracek ).
Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Aindreis or Irish Mac Aindriú, see McAndrew .
History: This was a common name among the early settlers in New England. Robert Andrews emigrated in 1635 from Norwich, England, to Ipswich, MA. Even before 1635, one Thomas Andrews is recorded as being established in Hingham. A certain William Andrews was a member of John Davenport's company, which sailed from Boston in 1638 to found the New Haven colony.
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