When Martha Ellen Williamson was born in 1881, in Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Jesse Williamson, was 27 and her mother, Sarah Anne Cook, was 24. She married David Holbrook on 28 July 1907. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Pitstone, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom in 1881 and Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1891. She died in 1957, in Hampstead, London, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 76.
English (Northern) and Scottish: from the Middle English personal name William + patronymic -son ‘son of William’. This surname is also found in Northern Ireland (Ulster), especially in Antrim.
Americanized form of Norwegian, Danish, and North German Wilhelmsen , Swedish Wilhelmsson, or Dutch and North German Willemsen , all cognates of 1.
History: This surname was brought to North America from northern England and northern Ireland independently by numerous different bearers from the 17th century onward. Timothy Williamson is recorded in Plymouth Colony in 1643.
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