Brief Life History of Robert
When Robert Patterson was born on 3 February 1802, in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Patterson, was 22 and his mother, Jane McGregor, was 22. He died in Childs, Cecil, Maryland, United States, and was buried in Childs, Cecil, Maryland, United States.
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- Robert, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Robt Patterson, "England, Northumberland, Parish Registers, 1538-1950"
- Robert Patterson, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
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1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1833 · The Factory Act Restricts Child Labor
The Factory Act restricted the hours women and children could work in textile mills. No child under the age of 9 were allowed to work, and children ages 9-13 could not work longer than 9 hours per day. Children up to the age of 13 were required to receive at least two hours of schooling, six days per week.
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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