When George Anderson was born on 25 September 1837, in Forfarshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Alexander Anderson, was 25 and his mother, Catharine McKenzie, was 20. He married Mary Ann Thorne on 15 February 1860, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Lintrathen, Forfarshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1841 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1870. In 1900, at the age of 63, his occupation is listed as herdsman . He died on 9 April 1906, in Springville, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Springville, Utah, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
The Police Act 1857 was an Act put into place by Parliament to establish a mandatory police force in every county of Scotland.
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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