John Patten

Male

Melbourne, Victoria

Australia

Profile Information:

What surnames are you interested in researching?
ASHMORE - Derbyshire, UK> NSW, Australia
AVERY - Bundjalung, Clarence River, NSW, QLD, Australia
BETTY - Dorset, Somerset, UK
BETTY-FISHER - Dorset, Somerset, UK
COLLITS - UK> NSW, Australia
DEMPSEY - Co. Kildare, IRELAND> Australia
FISHER-BETTY - Dorset, Somerset, UK
FISHER - Dorset, Somerset, Devon, UK>NSW, Australia
GAUNT - Derbyshire, UK> SA, VIC, NSW, Australia
HALLETT - Somerset, UK
HALLETT FISHER - Middlesex UK> NSW, Australia
MARSHALL - Manchester, UK> NSW, Australia
MCNAMARA - Co. Galway, IRELAND> NSW, Australia
MOORE - Worcestershire, UK> NSW, Australia
MORRIS - Warwickshire, UK> NSW, Australia
MORTIMER / MORTIMOR / MORTIMORE - Devon, UK>Sussex, UK> NSW, Australia
PAGE - Co. Clare, IRELAND> NSW, Australia
PATTEN - Yorta Yorta, Murray River, VIC, NSW, Australia
PULLEY - UK> NSW, Australia
ROPE - London, UK> NSW, Australia
SMITH - Stockholm, SWEDEN> VIC, NSW, Australia
TATHAM - Durham, Yorkshire, UK> VIC, NSW, Australia
What countries and other locations are you interested in researching?
Australia, Ireland, England, Sweden, Bundjalung, Yorta Yorta
What is your level of genealogy knowledge?
Advanced Family History Researcher
If you are a genealogy expert, what are your specialties?
Indigenous Australian (Aboriginal) genealogy
Do you have a genealogy website or blog or belong to a Genealogy Society?
pattenproject.com/family

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  • Geniaus

    John I have 7 Google Wave invites - pls email me with your email address (a gmail one is good) to bibliaugrapher@gmail.com and I'll nominate you.

    Nov 11, 2009

  • Jack Patten

    Hello John,
     
    Yes. I think that might have been me. Was your Dad a Union or Labor Party official?
     
    Briefly, probably 20 years ago a friend of mine from North Stradbroke Island, Estelle Bertossi, an aboriginal woman of the island asked me if I was any relation to Jack Patten. I said I didn't know and she gave me a little pamphlett about Jack Patten.
     
    It wasn't until 1995 and I was dragged kicking and screaming into email and internet, that I would Google my name as a Civil Mariage Celebrant, and found I was drowned out by this other Jack Patten.  I was fascinated by his story, and wondered about his education, and how he was able to communicate in such times to acheive what he did. I was born in 1934, so I can recall the period of the later years of Jack's life, and the social circumstances of the time..
     
    Just recently I happened on your blog and tried to follow it up, but being an I.T.  dunce had trouble getting through. It was your comment about looking for antecedents from Somerset that attracted me. My great-grandfather Samuel Patten was born in West Chinnock, Somerset, and the Patten family was obviously pretty thick on the ground in East and West Chinnock and Chiselborough.
     
    My wife Audrey has got us back to a Roger Patten in the 1600's and we can also show that the Patten's migrated to Australia in numbers, many to the area south of Sydney, Kiama etc.,
     
    As a Korean War veteran I have noticed that a whole stack of Pattens reside in the Warnambool area in Victoria, and served in the RAN in Korea and since.
     
    John, my email is trulyromantic@bigpond.com, website is www.trulyromantic.com.au  My phone number are 07-38223229 and 0417758737.
     
    We would be happy to share with you any of our research. I think it would be a mighty co-incidence if we don't have a common ancestor in times past. A cousin of mine is the father of Luke Patten, a full back for Canterbury, and I was always happy if someone asked me about Wes Patten, who played for Balmain at one time, and I would claim him too.
     
    Regards
     
    Jack Patten.

    Jun 21, 2012

  • Anne Zealley

    Hi there, my name is Anne (Patten maiden name) and Ive traced my family tree back to Somerset uk with John Patten born circa 1578. Please feel free to contact me and see if we have any links with each other’s trees.

    thanks, Anne 

    yesterday