This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_921549727_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Lana, In reply to request on Robert James Patterson, I cannot tell if he is a relation or not as unfortunately I do not know the names of Alexander's brothers. I only know that he had brothers who came with him from Northern Ireland and his brothers were active Orangemen, but my brother was not. As you noted, the gernation is similar, so could possibly be. In reply to your query on my search methods, I have relied primarily on my father and his records and photographs. He has photos of gravesites which gave me birth and death dates. Also, I was able to obtain Alexander's will which gave me the names of his children and the maiden name of his wife and wife's sisters name. If you want other info. on researching in Philadelphia, try the new rootsweb site at www.rootsweb.com/~paphilad/> and this will give you names and addresses of city offices and other info. Other than this, I cannot tell you much more. I like you do not live near Philly--I live in Minnesota. When I get back again, I hope I may be able to search newspapers for obituaries. These have been a great source of info, on my mother's side and I hope they will be the same for my father's side. Searching ship passenger lists has not produced any results. Alexander and Sarah, his wife, were born 1848-1849 and Great Britain did not keep records of births back then. Sorry I could not provide more info. on any of Alexander's brothers but he did not visit much. My grandfather used to say he was a man who liked to keep his feet under his own table. David P. --part0_921549727_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.sk.sympatico.ca.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-zd03.mx.aol.com (rly-zd03.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.227]) by air-zd01.mail.aol.com (v56.26) with SMTP; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 13:08:41 -0500 Received: from raiden.sk.sympatico.ca (raiden.sk.sympatico.ca [142.165.5.180]) by rly-zd03.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id NAA16013 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 13:08:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from sk.sympatico.ca (prnask01d02010137.sk.sympatico.ca [142.165.115.37]) by raiden.sk.sympatico.ca (8.9.1/8.8.6) with ESMTP id MAA22325185 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 12:08:37 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 11:56:30 -0600 From: rob and lana <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Organization: NCEM X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Patterson Genealogy References: <[email protected]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit [email protected] wrote: > I understand that you are doing research into the Pattersons of Philadelphia. > My family came form Philadelphia. My great grandfather Alexander Patterson > came form Northern Ireland with other brothers. One of them became a vice- > president of a railroad in northeast PA. Alexander was married to a Sarah > McMasters. He was born 1849 in Northern Ireland. Sarah gave birth to a > number of children--Edward (b. 1884) who was my grandfather, William, Robert, > Margaret, Matilda and Walter (b. 1892). Does any of this correspond with any > of your research? Do you have any more information? Thanks for your > response. David P. David...thank you for writing. I am doing research on the Pattersons of the Philadelphia area, but keep coming up with dead ends. I'm living in a Native community in northern Saskatchewan, Canada and am limited as to resources. I was recently discouraged when I sent for a marriage certificate from the Philadelphia Archives that I was sure would provide me with the information I needed, only to discover that I either have the wrong date or the marriage for some odd reason was not registered. Your information is intriguing to Mme.'s your great grandfather would be around the same age/generation as the Robert Patterson (married 6/27/1883, wife's name is Kate Wirth who was born 1858 and died 1888 at 29 yrs.) I am trying to find information on. We suspect he, too, may have come from Ireland or Scotland. He was a cloth cutter in Philadelphia who died fairly young (we suspect - we have no records of his death) leaving an orphaned son at approximately age 7. The son's name was Robert James Patterson who was raised at a boy's school called Girard College. This Robert James Patterson was my husband's grandfather. If you have any information that may tie in with this I'd appreciate hearing from you again. And I'd like to know what you have used as resources in your search of the Philadelphia Pattersons. I look forward to hearing from you again. Lana Patterson --part0_921549727_boundary--