When Emma Augusta Anderson was born on 2 April 1894, in Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah, United States, her father, John Anderson, was 31 and her mother, Eliza Maria Bischoff, was 26. She married Bernard William Nash on 17 October 1917, in Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. She died on 19 July 1969, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Fountain Green, 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 NamesBy Florence’s niece, Eleanor C. Pratt I was given the Missionary Journals of Sister Emma Augusta Anderson to scan for SPC content and in the body of the journal, I ran into …
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