Identity area
Type of entity
Family
Authorized form of name
Anderson family (descendants of Thomas Sr.)
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Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
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Description area
Dates of existence
Branch begins in 1745
History
The Anderson family were descendants of Thomas Sr. (1745-1841) and Mary Anderson, who emigrated to Sackville, New Brunswick, from Yorkshire, England, in the early 1770s. Settling at Cole’s Island, situated on the Tantramar Marsh near Sackville, the first two generations engaged in farming. Titus Anderson, grandson of Thomas Sr., became a master mariner, the first of many seafaring men in the Anderson family of Sackville.