When Alvus Houston Patterson was born on 17 May 1826, in Tazewell, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States, his father, Thomas Adam Patterson, was 37 and his mother, Lydia Bedia McDowell, was 34. He married Martha Fillmore on 23 December 1846, in Franklin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 12 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 18 November 1900, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Payson City Cemetery, Payson, Utah, Utah, United States.
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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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