Tour Scotland photograph of the Joseph Neil Paton, Celtic Cross, gravestone in the Dunfermline Abbey Churchyard, Fife, Scotland.Joseph Neil Paton was a well known Dunfermline designer of damask work. Joseph Noel Paton his son, also produced damask work in Dunfermline.
This surname is thought to have come from Paton the son of the 14th century Scots nobleman Sir Patrick Herring. Various forms of the name Paton deriving from the Gaelic form of Paton, which is Macphaiden meaning son of Patrick. The Mac was dropped over the years and the spelling was changed but Paton remained the closest to the original.
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