When Charles Riddle Patterson was born on 11 July 1859, in Greenfield, Weakley, Tennessee, United States, his father, Riddle Patterson, was 37 and his mother, Elizabeth Tubbs, was 27. He married Elizabeth "Betty" Caudle in 1879. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Weakley, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years and Civil District 9, Weakley, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. He died on 24 December 1920, in Greenfield, Weakley, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Patterson, Rutherford, Tennessee, 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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