Category: Longwood

Longwood, Victoria 3665

October 25, 2017

Longwood Football Club Centenary 1888 – 1988

The Patton Family has a long association with the Longwood Football Club. The following articles from the Euroa Gazette in 1988 celebrate the centenary of this great community organisation, known as “The Bullants” and...

Carracher / Cocks Family / Euroa / Grant / Heathcote / Longwood / Patton Family / Upper Plenty / Wallan

October 13, 2017

Patton’s Move To Longwood (1942)

It’s funny to think that a family that moved to a small town, so closely aligned to the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, were themselves descendants of those that fought against Napoleon in the Napoleonic...

Longwood / Patton Family

October 12, 2017

Longwood, Victoria 3665 – The Town That Napoleon Bonaparte Named

The Patton family made their way to Longwood in the 1940’s. Timber brought them to Longwood, much in the same way that timber took the family to the Plenty Ranges in the mid 1800’s...

Paton, Patton, Patoun Family Associated Families

Edinburgh / Euroa / Kirkwall & St.Ola / Leith Edinburgh Scotland / Longwood / NEW DISCOVERY / Orkney Islands / Patton Family / Reunion / Scotland / Tasmania / Upper Plenty / Wallan / Wandong

October 10, 2017

Paton, Patton, Patoun Family Associated Families

Over the last few months I’ve identified that Russell Patton, son of Robert & Matilda Patton from Kirkwall, died at Bathurst River in The Gambia, Africa. Robert Russell Patton’s wife Hannah, and son Ebenezer...

Twelve Months That Turned Into More Than Half A Century

Cocks Family / Heathcote / Longwood / Patton Family / Wallan / Wandong

September 24, 2017

Twelve Months That Turned Into More Than Half A Century

Douglas William Arthur Patton was born on the 25th May 1884 in Wallan. His parents house “Shaldon Cottage” was just out from Wallan near the turn-off to Wandong & Whittlesea. Son of Charles Douglas...

Longwood / Patton Family / Upper Plenty / Wallan / Wandong

August 22, 2017

6 Generations in 3 Photos

William Patton

Longwood / Patton Family / Upper Plenty / Wallan / Wandong

August 22, 2017

Patton Family Re-union 2018

We are currently determining the level of interest from family members in having a family re-union, the last family gathering was held in Wandong, Victoria in 1980. Interest in knowing more? Email – family@garypatton.net...

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The Tale O’ William Patton

In the Orkney Isles, where the wild winds blaw,
A lad named William, wi' dreams in aw,
At fourteen years, he left the shore,
A cabin boy, seekin' so much more.

### Chorus

Och, William Patton, the sea's yer hame,
Frae Orkney winds to the ocean's maim,
Across the waves, ye sailed sae free,
But the Southern winds, they called to thee.

Frae Viking blood, his line did flow,
Frae Normandy’s shores, where battles grow,
In 1066, they heard the cry,
To William the Conqueror, they did fly.

### Chorus

Och, William Patton, the sea's yer hame,
Frae Orkney winds to the ocean's maim,
Across the waves, ye sailed sae free,
But the Southern winds, they called to thee.

For five hunner years, they stood sae braw,
Frae England’s fields tae the castle’s law,
Then north they wandered in sixteen-hun,
Tae Scotland’s glens where their tale begun.

### Chorus

Och, William Patton, the sea's yer hame,
Frae Orkney winds to the ocean's maim,
Across the waves, ye sailed sae free,
But the Southern winds, they called to thee.

Two hunner years, they made their hame,
'Til William sailed on a southern flame,
On the 27th o’ January, in eighteen-forty-six,
He landed in Port Phillip, wi' dreams and bricks.

### Chorus
Och, William Patton, the sea's yer hame,
Frae Orkney winds to the ocean's maim,
Across the waves, ye sailed sae free,
But the Southern winds, they called to thee.

Frae Port Phillip Bay, where the city now stands,
Tae Upper Plenty’s bonnie lands,
He swung his hammer, laid the rail,
On Comet Village, Sawmills, and Tramway’s trail.

### Chorus

Och, William Patton, the sea's yer hame,
Frae Orkney winds to the ocean's maim,
Across the waves, ye sailed sae free,
But the Southern winds, they called to thee.

On Melbourne's tracks, his hands were strong,
Buildin' the line where the trains belong,
Tae Sydney’s toon, the steel would run,
Under the burnin' Australian sun.

### Chorus
Och, William Patton, the sea's yer hame,
Frae Orkney winds to the ocean's maim,
Across the waves, ye sailed sae free,
But the Southern winds, they called to thee.

### Bridge
Noo in the south, where the winds do moan,
William Patton found his own,
Far frae the isles where his journey began,
A Scottish lad, noo a workin' man.

### Final Chorus
Och, William Patton, the sea's yer hame,
Frae Orkney winds to the ocean's maim,
Across the waves, ye sailed sae free,
But the Southern winds, they called to thee.

### Outro
So raise a dram to the lad who fled,
Frae Orkney’s shores tae the life he led,
William Patton, his name we sing,
A Scottish heart, wi' a builder's wing.

### Final Verse
Frae Normandy’s fields tae England’s shores,
For five hunner years, they settled the scores,
To William the Conqueror’s call they came,
And Patton’s line forever gained its name.

In Scotland’s glens, two hunner mair,
'Til Australia called in eighteen-forty-six.
Och, William Patton, a journey grand,
Frae Viking blood tae this southern land.

His name endures, through history’s sang,
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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

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SHEARGOLD FAMILY

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)

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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.

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