When Jeanne Williams was born on 10 November 1920, in McKeesport, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Nicholas J. Williams Jr., was 34 and her mother, Pearl Blanche Rivers, was 32. She married Robert Emil Andreen on 14 June 1943, in Duquesne, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States. She lived in Duquesne, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. She died on 18 May 2000, at the age of 79, and was buried in Dravosburg, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States.
English: variant of William , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This form of the surname is also common in Wales. In North America, this surname has also absorbed some cognates from other languages, such as Dutch Willems . Williams is the third most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
History: This surname was brought to North America from southern England and Wales independently by many different bearers from the 17th century onward. Roger Williams, born in London in 1603, came to MA in 1630, but the clergyman was banished from the colony for his criticism of the Puritan government; he fled to RI and founded Providence.
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