Brief Life History of James P.
When James P. Patterson was born on 17 July 1916, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Patrick Patterson, was 35 and his mother, Mary Ann Weidler, was 24. He died on 11 October 1999, in his hometown, at the age of 83.
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Spouse and Children
1916–1999 Male
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Parents and Siblings
1881–1959 Male
1891–1958 Female
Siblings (14)
1912–1978 Male
1914–1989 Male
1916–1999 Male
1917–1918 Male
1919–1991 Female
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1917
Age 1
1917 · Joining the First World War
Age 1
1941
Age 25
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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