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Paterson Name Meaning
Scottish: patronymic from a pet form of Pate 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Paterson
Name Distribution of Paterson Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Paterson families
 149 - 296  50 - 148 |
 1 - 49  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Paterson families
|
290 - 577 97 - 289 |
1 - 96 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Paterson families
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2,975 - 5,947 992 - 2,974 |
1 - 991 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Paterson census records
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Paterson Family Origin
Paterson Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Paterson
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Paterson Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Paterson census records
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Paterson Civil War Service Records
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