When Edna Jane Patterson was born in January 1875, in Ontario, Canada, her father, James Angus Patterson, was 32 and her mother, Margaret Graham, was 29. She married Charles Hastings Doyle Croke on 23 July 1909, in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. She lived in British Columbia, Canada in 1911 and Representative District 9, Kent, Delaware, United States in 1920. She died on 9 July 1950, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 75, and was buried in Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada.
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 .
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