Description
Anderson means “son of Anders” — and thousands of unrelated fathers, each called Anders or Andrew, invented the name independently in parish after parish from Aberdeen to York. From the medieval clerks who spelled by ear to the officer who held Fort Sumter, this is the story of a surname with no single bloodline and a thousand beginnings.
Inside: the oak in the shield, fifteen remarkable lives, the places the name built — and the numbers we can stand behind.
The Surname Histories Series traces one family name per volume through etymology, migration, heraldry, famous bearers, and the towns that carry the name — a coffee-table keepsake for anyone who bears the name, past, present, and future, and for all those who love them.
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