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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Parents and Siblings
1868–1907 Male
1886–1932 Female
Siblings (1)
1907– Female
World Events (3)
1911
Age 4
1914
Age 7
1918
Age 11
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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