Brief Life History of Robert Donald
When Robert Donald Patterson was born in 1909, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, his father, James Patterson, was 20 and his mother, Florence Decima Champion, was 21. He married Mavis Maud Oakes in 1935, in Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia. He died on 24 March 1952, in Illawarra, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 43, and was buried in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
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Spouse and Children
1909–1952 Male
1912–2001 Female
Parents and Siblings
1889–1953 Male
1888–1955 Female
Siblings (5)
1909–1952 Male
1910–1963 Male
1912– Male
1914–1968 Female
1917– Female
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1911
Age 2
1914
Age 5
1921
Age 12
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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