When Eugenia Patterson was born on 4 April 1847, in Lancaster, Grant, Wisconsin, United States, her father, David Baker Patterson, was 31 and her mother, Cornelia Miner Sheffield, was 31. She married Warren Hannum Jr in August 1869, in Lancaster, Grant, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Wisconsin, United States in 1870 and Grant, Wisconsin, United States in 1910. She died on 27 June 1915, in Lancaster, Whitman, Washington, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Lancaster, Grant, Wisconsin, 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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