Brief Life History of Tempy
When Tempy Patterson was born in 1788, in Orange, North Carolina, United States, her father, Capt Mark Patterson, was 44 and her mother, Amelia Barbee, was 47.
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Parents and Siblings
1744–1809 Male
1741–1809 Female
Siblings (9)
1770–1838 Female
1775– Female
1775–1852 Male
1778–1862 Female
1776– Female
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1788 · The First Presidential Election
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1789
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1789 · Becomes 12th State
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Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: variant of Patrickson ‘son of Patrick ’, which was either shortened to Patrison and metathesized to Patterson, or shortened from Paterickson to Patterson.
Irish: in Ulster, this name is of English or Scottish origin, but in County Galway, it was also taken by bearers of the Gaelic name Ó Caisín ‘descendant of the little curly-headed one’ (from Gaelic casín ‘curly’), which is usually Anglicized as Cussane. In addition to the confusion between Irish Gaelic casín ‘curly’ and cosán ‘path’, there has also been an erroneous assumption that the English name Patterson is somehow derived from the English word path.
English: 19th-century variant of Patteson, a shortened form of Pattinson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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