Patterson Family History
Patterson Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: patronymic from a pet form of
Pate, a short form of Patrick.Irish: in Ulster of
English or Scottish origin; in County Galway, a surname taken by
bearers of Gaelic Ó Caisín ‘descendant of the little
curly-headed one’ (from Gaelic casán), which is usually
Anglicized as Cussane.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Patterson
Name Distribution of Patterson Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Patterson families
 989 - 1,976  330 - 988 |
 1 - 329  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Patterson families
|
249 - 496 84 - 248 |
1 - 83 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Patterson census records
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Patterson Family Origin
Patterson Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Patterson Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Patterson Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Patterson census records
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Military Service by Patterson
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