When Betty Peterson was born on 22 March 1932, in Mineral Hills, Iron, Michigan, United States, her father, Roy Levi Peterson, was 22 and her mother, Marian I Waite, was 20. She died on 1 June 2007, in Michigan, United States, at the age of 75.
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1909–2000 Male
1911–1995 Female
1930–1931 Male
1932–2007 Female
English, Scottish, and German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, e.g. Norwegian and Danish Pedersen and Pettersen and their Swedish cognates (see 2 below), Polish Piotrowicz , Slovenian Petrič, Petrovčič, and Petrovič (see Petric , Petrovic ).
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Petersson, a cognate of 1 above, and also of its variant Pettersson . Compare 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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