Brief Life History of Earl Martin
When Earl Martin Patterson was born on 1 July 1893, in Ripley, Jackson, Virginia, United States, his father, Holly Asbury Patterson, was 24 and his mother, Rosetta Lane, was 23. He lived in United States in 1949 and Allegheny City, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States in 1950. He died on 3 July 1978, in Washington, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Washington Cemetery, Washington, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Earl Patterson, "United States Census, 1950"
- Martin E Patterson, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
- Earl Patterson, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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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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