When George W. Anderson was born in November 1852, in New Jersey, United States, his father, John Apgar Anderson, was 23 and his mother, Mary Castner, was 21. He married Margaret Jane 'Jennie' Hazlet on 8 December 1877, in Warren, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Lebanon Township, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States for about 10 years and Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States in 1920. He died in 1924, at the age of 72, and was buried in Glen Gardner, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States.
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.
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