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Left to Right – Ian Patton, Gary Patton, Ernie Patton & Douglas (Dar) Patton
 
G’day and Welcome to my website. 
 
“This site is for you Caitlin Anne, Brylie Grace, Ava Louise & Eli Robert”
 
Whether you are an immediate family member or a distant relative who has just started on their search for their family roots, Welcome.
I began my research in 1980 following a Patton Family Reunion that I was unable to attend due to being in the Army at the time.
 
I want to acknowledge the previous research of other family Researchers who have assisted me greatly in my understanding of my various family tree branches.
The following people have impacted on my research the most and for that I am truly grateful.
 
Marian Elizabeth “May” Patton 1882-1963
Caroline Francis “Carrie” Patton 1913-1981
Ellen Christine “Christine” Sommerville (nee DAFFY) 1952-2009 (PATTON Family)
Douglas John “Doug” Hutchinson 1940-1995 (PATTON Family),
Glenda Miller (HARRISON & SHEARGOLD Families).
 
Possibly, like you, I knew little of my Family History on either my Father’s Patton Family or my Mother’s Harrison Family.  I started out asking questions and writing the information in a school exercise book.  I purchased a C64 Computer and became a member of BBS Network which gave me access to FidoNet email  
 
The C64 provided me with basic word processing and I generated some of my first reports for family members on this forerunner to the modern day PC.  When the Amstrad Computer with it’s 400Mb Hard Drive was released and the advent of modern day email, linked up with some Family Research Discussion Groups and my research grew.  Many of my enquiries regarding my family research still exist within the Search Engines.
 
I taught myself some HTML web design coding and established my first Webpage “Genealogy In Action”
 
If you were expecting to find a work of literary genius you will be sadly disappointed, my research is “piecemealed” from now over 40 years of research which I am gradually consolidating and trying to streamline the narratives of the various families that I have been researching.
 
Each Family listed on this website has a connection to me.
 
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This website has been created to celebrate those who have gone before us., to remember their legacy and to create a link between our past and our future.
Sometimes others choose not to be part of your life but that still doesn’t stop you from loving and passing history and stories on to those who may never know how much you love them.
 
  
LEST WE FORGET

“An Adult’s reality is but a Child’s fantasy …. and an Adult is really only a confused Child”
 – Gary Patton 1971 (9 years of age)

PATTON FAMILY of WANDONG

PATTON FAMILY
3 x Great Grandson of William Patton (1828 - 1909), Arrived from the Orkney Islands into Port Phillip onboard the Stratheden on the 27th January 1846. Married Charlotte Palethorpe on the same day that Governor Latrobe was turning the first sod of soil for the construction of the Yan Yean Reservoir (Major Melbourne Water Supply).
William & Charlotte owned a 100 acre property "Mount Hope", he built the first store in Wandong, worked on the construction of the Comet Tramway, Sawmills & Village.
And he worked on the construction of the Melbourne to Sydney Rail Line through Wandong & Heathcote Junction.
(Click on the image to learn more about this family)
 

SINCLAIR FAMILY of ORKNEY

SINCLAIR FAMILY
4 x Great Grandson of William Paton & Annie Sinclair. William & Annie married at Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands on the 16th January 1790.
(Click on the image to learn more about this family)
 

THE ORKNEY ISLANDS


HISTORY OF THE ORKNEY ISLANDS

HARRISON FAMILY of EUROA

HARRISON FAMILY
2 x Great Grandson of George Harrison (1849 - 1939), Son of Convict George Harrison and the first European baby born in Euroa, Victoria, Australia, born on the Sevens Creek behind the Old Flour Mill
(Click on the image to learn more about this family)

SCOTT FAMILY TREE

SCOTT FAMILY
5 x Great Grandson of Warrant Officer John Scott R.N.(1764 - 1805), Secretary, Friend and Confidante to Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson
(Warrant Officer Scott was killed by a cannonball when standing next to Nelson onboard the HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar)
(Click on the image to learn more about this family)

SHEARGOLD FAMILY of EUROA

Campbelltown, Tasmania
SHEARGOLD FAMILY
4 x Great Grandson of Convict, Henry Sheargold (1799 - 1873), Wiltshire England, transported to Australia for "Machine Breaking" at the start of the Industrial Revolution in 1831
(Click on the image to learn more about this family)

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First online edition published by © Gary Ian Patton, 1992,
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