When Robert Paterson was born on 4 January 1747, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, his father, John Paterson, was 43 and his mother, Margaret Dykes, was 41. He married Margaret Jamieson on 4 December 1767, in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He died in 1828, in Stonehouse, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 81, and was buried in Stonehouse, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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Scottish: variant of Patterson .
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