When Katherine Pauline Patterson Hicks was born on 30 March 1923, in Gaston, North Carolina, United States, her father, George Washington Patterson, was 23 and her mother, Minnie Elmina Howell, was 18. She lived in Gastonia Township, Gaston, North Carolina, United States in 1940 and Clover, York, South Carolina, United States in 1985. She died on 20 May 1985, in Gastonia, Gaston, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in York, South Carolina, United States.
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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