Ruth Alice Anderson

Female1907–

Brief Life History of Ruth Alice

When Ruth Alice Anderson was born in 1907, in Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, her father, Stanley Robert Anderson, was 39 and her mother, Alice Pomeroy, was 21.

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Stanley Robert Anderson
1868–1907
Alice Pomeroy
1886–1932
Ruth Alice Anderson
1907–

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    Siblings (1)

    World Events (3)

    1911

    Age 4

    Canberra is founded and designated as the capital. The Federal Capital Territory is established as an area of two 360 square kilometers in the Yass-Canberra district.

    1914

    Age 7

    August: Australia becomes involved in World War One as Britain is preparing to declare war on Germany.

    1918

    Age 11

    Australian troops sent to fight in South African War.

    Name Meaning

    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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