Andrews
Son of Andrew — apostle, patron saint, common name.
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The seat of Andrews
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Stake your name →What does the Andrews name mean?
Patronymic — son of Andrew (Greek Andreas, 'manly'). Andrew was a common mediaeval Christian first name on account of the apostle, and through him on account of Saint Andrew the patron saint of Scotland. The patronymic Andrews is densely English in modern distribution, though the surname is also strong in Scotland and Northern Ireland through the Saint-Andrew association.
The history of Andrews
Andrews is among the top-100 English surnames, with strong distributions across the southern counties and the West Country. The Andrews family of Lathbury, Buckinghamshire, was a 17th-century Catholic gentry family; the Andrews of Norwich and the Andrews of Pembrokeshire were 18th-century mercantile lines. By the Victorian era the surname was diffused across the Anglophone world.
Julie Andrews (Julia Wells, b. 1935), the Walton-on-Thames-born actress and singer, won the 1964 Best Actress Oscar for Mary Poppins and starred as Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1965); she was created Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2000. V.C. Andrews (Cleo Virginia Andrews, 1923–1986), the Portsmouth, Virginia-born novelist of Flowers in the Attic (1979), wrote one of the bestselling Gothic-horror series in American publishing. Roy Chapman Andrews (1884–1960), the Wisconsin-born paleontologist, led the American Museum of Natural History expeditions to Mongolia in the 1920s that found the first dinosaur eggs.
Notable bearers of the Andrews name
- Julie Andrews (b. 1935) — actress, singer (Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music)
- V.C. Andrews (1923–1986) — novelist (Flowers in the Attic)
- Roy Chapman Andrews (1884–1960) — paleontologist