When Mary Johnson Anderson was born on 16 June 1846, in Hörset, Berga, Kronoberg, Sweden, her father, Jons Andersson, was 54 and her mother, Johanna Caterina Andersdotter, was 41. She married Nils Christian Christiansson Flygare on 24 October 1877, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Sweden in 1846 and Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States for about 20 years. She died on 15 April 1933, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Ogden, Weber, 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
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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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