Anders History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

The freedom of the North American colonies was enticing, and many Scots left to make the great crossing. It was a long and hard journey, but its reward was a place where there was more land than people and tolerance was far easier to come by. Many of these people came together to fight for a new nation in the American War of Independence, while others remained loyal to the old order as United Empire Loyalists. The ancestors of Scots in North America have recovered much of this heritage in the 20th century through Clan societies and other such organizations. A search of immigration and passenger lists revealed many important and early immigrants to North America bearing the name of Anders:

Anders Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

• Anna Anders, who landed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1734 4
• Baltzer Anders, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1734 4
• Georg Anders, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1734 4
• Michel Anders, who landed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1737 4
• Joh Peter Anders, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1740 4
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Anders Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

• Charles Anders, who landed in Allegany (Allegheny) County, Pennsylvania in 1836 4
• Georg Anders and his wife Johanna, who settled in Texas in 1854 with their four children
• Ernst Fried Anders, who sailed from Bremen to New York with his family in 1854
• Josef Anders, who arrived in New Orleans in 1871
• Eliason Anders, who settled in Kansas in 1873

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Anders Settlers in Canada in the 20th Century

• Albert E Anders, who arrived in St John, Ncw Brunswick in 1907
• Doris Anders, who arrived in Saint John, New Brunswick in 1907
• Mrs. E Anders, who landed in Saint John, New Brunswick in 1907
• Frank Anders, who arrived in Saint John, New Brunswick in 1907

• William Alison "Bill" Anders (b. 1933), former NASA Astronaut, one of the first three persons to have left Earth orbit and traveled to the Moon aboard Apollo 8 5
• Major Frank LaFayette Anders (1875-1966), United States Army soldier awarded the Medal of Honor in 1906 6
• Allison Anders (b. 1954), American film and television director 7
• Carl David Anders (b. 1905), American physicist
• Thomas Anders (b. 1963), German singer, composer and record producer 8
• Peter Anders (1908-1954), German operatic tenor 9
• Lieutenant-General Wladyslaw Anders (1892-1970), Polish officer awarded the Croix de Guerre in the Second World War 10
• Bjarne Anders Strand (b. 1946), Norwegian alpine skier who skied at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble
• Per Anders Rudling (b. 1974), Swedish-American historian, an associate professor of the Department of History at Lund University
• K. Anders Ericsson (1947-2020), Swedish psychologist and Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University