When William Patterson was born on 4 November 1784, in Henniker, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Joseph Patterson, was 34 and his mother, Susannah Duncan, was 38. He married Lydia Joslyn on 10 February 1810, in Henniker, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Manchester, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States in 1850. He died on 26 April 1862, in Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Old Cemetery, Henniker, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States.
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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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