Brief Life History of Anna
When Anna Patterson was born on 31 August 1859, in Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, David Patterson, was 37 and her mother, Jane Adair, was 33. She died on 10 January 1929, in Boon, Wexford, Michigan, United States, at the age of 69.
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Family Time Line
Sources (2)
- Mrs. Anne Corey, "Michigan Deaths and Burials, 1800-1995"
- Anna Corey, "Michigan Death Certificates, 1921-1952"
Spouse and Children
– Male
1859–1929 Female
Parents and Siblings
1823– Male
1827– Female
Siblings (3)
1849– Male
1850– Female
1859–1929 Female
World Events (3)
1863
Age 4
1863 · The Battle at Gettysburg
Age 4
1868 · The Representation of the people (Scotland) Act 1868
Age 9
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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