The Patton's - Family Crest

I know that the Patton family lived in our house for about 70 years - it could have been longer, as we don't know anything prior to 1819 (200 years ago this year!)


I have read mention of members of the family in Bishops Hull prior to 1819 but I don't know if that was in this house or just in the area.


Andy bought me a metal detector and I found a button in the garden believed to be from a servants coat - and it shows the family crest - but you can hardly see the image.  It looked like an eagle - similar to the one that used to be on top of our front porch but was moved to next door - when the house was built and called Eagle House (not by the Pattons, but by the next family: The Waterfields)


So - I found the family crest!


 Patton Family Crest


This came from - https://coadb.com/surnames/patton-arms.html


There were 4 different Patton crests - but the one above said - Stoke Court/Bishops Hall Crest.  As the pattons that lived here also owned Stoke court - I am 100% convinced this is correct.  On the same website I found the following info (which I haven't checked against the family tree I have but it all sounds about right!)


Patton of Clayton Priory

General Walter Douglas Phillipps of Clayton Priory county Sussex was born in 1821 and he was Colonel of the 74th Highlanders, a Knight of Medjidie, and a Brigadier-General in Burmah. He was succeeded his father in 1876 and in 1855, he married Julia, daughter of Sir Howard Elphinstone and five children with her: Walter Denman Elphinstone (1859), Herbert Bethune (born 1860, 2nd Lieutenant 3rd Hussars), Douglas Elphinstone Bethune, Julia Elphinstone, and Anne Florence Louisa Mary Bethune. Burke traces the lineage of Patton genealogy to Colonel Henry Patton of the 6th Royal Regiment of Clatto in county Fide, the eldest surviving son of Andrew Patton, Esquire of Springfield in Donegal (the family gained lands there generations prior for displaying valour in battle). In 1747, he married Mary, daughter and heiress of Henry Bethune of Clatto and Nydie, and he had issue with her. His son was James Susannau Patton, Esq. of Clatto in county Fife and of Priory, Lichfield who was Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant who was born in 1753. He was Major in the 93rd Highlanders and Colonel Staffordshire Volunteers who, in 1780, married Merrial, daughter of Thomas Docksey of Snetsone, and had the following issue with her: Henry (born 1780, Lieutenant 1st Royals), Peter (born 1783, Captain Royal Engineers), James (born 1791, served in Royal Navy), Thomas (of Bishop’s Hall), Richard (married Hannah Cullen), John (born 1793, member of Royal Navy), Maria Elizabeth, Susan, Mary (married Lieutenant-Colonel Elliott), Merrial (married a member of the Dodson family), Emma (married Reverend Richard Winsloe), Charlotte (married Sir William Palmer). He died in 1812 and was succeeded by his son Thomas Patton of Bishop’s Hull and Stoke Court, Somerset, who was born in 1792 and became a Commander in the British Royal Navy. In 1819, he married Matilda, daughter of Reverend Richard Winsloe, and had nine children with her: Walter Douglas Phillipps, Herbert Winsloe (born 1823, Captain in the British Royal Army, married Mary, daughter of Charles Gifford), Henry Bethune (born 1834, married Clara Fripp, was Justice of the Peace, Captain of 27th Inniskillings), Lionel Thomas (born 1839, Captain in the 2nd Somerset Militia, married Annette Isaac), Aubrey de Lisle (born 1841, Captain 14thRegiment, married Agnes, daughter of William Corbett, Esq.), Emma Matilda (married Lieutenant Colonel Rawlins), Clara Agnes, Matilda Winsloe (married Cranstoun Adams), and Isabella (married Theobald Walsh). The Patton Coat of Arms (erroneously referred to as the Patton Family Crest) was blazoned in heraldry as follows: Azure, a sword argent hilted or, between three crescents of the second. Crest: A hawk argent.

Jan 5th 2019

Hi

It is Saturday morning - I woke up at 9.15am - but I still feel really tired.  I am sat in my PJ's in the kitchen with my laptop - with a gingerbread latte, and tissues as I still have the cold that caused us to cancel going to Helen and Pauls and New Years Eve.  We were supposed to go to their house last night instead - but Helen had a migraine...so we should be going tonight.  We always have a good time but atm I am not looking forward to it because it is effort! That's just me being really lazy however and I know I will be glad I went.

I know this blog in the past has been full of my obsession with my weight and fitness - but I need to go on about it again!  I am soooo heavy - I look terrible in all my clothes - coupled with getting older I am looking like an old frump.  What happened to my motivation? why isn't the mirror motivation enough?  Why I am such a glutton? It needs to stop....but I tell myself this everyday and then no doubt that evening I will sabotage any efforts I have made during the day.  I know I can do it if I put my mind to it - as well as get fit - start running again....

This morning - I did 10 x crunches, squats and push-ups.  I intend to increase this by 1 each day - this does not require the gym - I can do it next to my bed.  Its nothing and took minutes but if I can continue that I know I will be pleased when I get to 30 or something. 

RIGHT - I am gonna get this weekend over with (H&P's tonight and Stuart coming round tomorrow night for the football - and I'm making macaroni cheese!) and THEN I am going to remind myself how disciplined I can be!!  I am going to stay within my calories, get exercise, not drink alcohol during the week. I need to find recipes and healthy nice things to eat because this is mostly where I fall down.  I need to get rid of the crap in the house so I can't eat it - and if I can I need to try and influence Andy to do it with me!

I think I should find some exercise classes to go to - but last time I looked around here they were so expensive - like £7 a class.  Maybe it has just been so long since I had to pay for a class that this is just normal.....it'd be great to have classes to go to that I enjoy and become routine....I'm going to have a look now...

Okay - just spent about an hour having a looksy - and I can see that there are the kind of classes I would like at Blackbrook Leisure Centre - about 15 minutes away.  I have booked myself in for a Step Aerobics class on Monday at 18.40pm - £6.50!

I have also found another gym - uses the same log-in details - and it is closer - less classes but still the kinda stuff I'd like to do....called Wellsprings leisure centre.  Full Membership is £58 a month - which I cannot afford and do not want - this would cover 9 classes a month, and I don't think I'd ever do more than 2 a week so it is not worth it - especially as I have a gym of my own - although I don't have a swimming pool....yet lol.

It is now 11.23am - Andy is still in bed lol...I am still in my PJ's...but I feel better that I have booked a class - I am hoping that this is the begining of me getting my act together.

2019!!

Happy New year - 2019....one day I'll read back and think - ohhh wish it was still only 2019! lol

Resolutions? As usual...lose weight, get fit....

House resolutions........by this time next year - we have a finished and working holiday annex/airbnb...and a decorated front hallway, a decorated guest bedroom, a finished living room, finished games room.  I'd love to do the downstairs loo and the upstairs one which is so bad everybody calls it the workmans toilet.  If I could do all that and maybe the upstairs hallway too....I'll be very happy!!

There would still be a whole conversion of a front car park to a front garden, and the whole of the attic.....so still more than we can do in the next year.  If we had lots of money I'd have no doubt we could get everything done!

Anyway - we had all the kids here over Christmas - mostly from 23rd to 27th Dec.  Was nice having everybody about - everybody and their partners, who have all been around a while now so its a comfortable, nice family feel.  Most of the time lol. Adam and Erika felt a bit left out by the twins and their partners, and I can see what they mean - Lissa and Connor and their partners seem very like-minded...drunken, loud, fun-loving and reckless! Adam and Erika are a little more reserved, like to have fun, but not so loud and reckless!

Christmas Eve we all went to the local Constitutional club and played skittles - Connor won lol - I came 2nd....but I may have cheated on the score board! lol we had a good laugh as usual...

So....christmas morning - we got up and exchanged gifts - which is always loads of fun!!  Gifts of note - new GoPro, GHD hair curlers and fitbit off Andy - plus tons more stuff as usual lol....a light up Jaguars jumper, Game of Thrones book, coffee, a game....can't remember! I got a pool cue off Adam and Erika! An awesome Freddie mercury canvas pic off Lissa and Antony - and an awesome light up neon sign for the games room off Connor and Emily - plus other stuff!!  After opening pressies, we got tidied up and as is tradition - we did fancy dress on Christmas day.  This year we mixed it up a bit and chose each others outfits.  I knew who Andy had got (Antony) and that I had Lissa, but I had no idea who else had got who until xmas day.  

We left the room with our parcel one at a time - and came back to the group dressed up.  It was so funny seeing ppl coming back with their outfits on!!  I ended up last and thought mine wasn't as funny as everybody else's - but not according to the reaction I got!  I had no idea who I was supposed to be until i put the wig on!! Then I was like - ooohhhh....I'm Donald trump!! hahah

Here are the first pics taken of ppl as they get changed.....

First - Adam:

Then Connor.....

Then Lissa - this is the outfit I chose for her - only somebody like Lissa could carry this off!!

Then Antony - his outfit chosen by Andy!

Erika - outfit chosen by Lissa

Andy's outfit - chosen by Erika - who apparently consulted with helen (thank god - because I believe lycra was mentioned at some point!)

Then my horrendous outfit! Chosen by Connor!!  If I had known Connor was getting mine I'd have been a lot more worried than I was!

Emily spent the day with her family - but when she arrived - she promptly got changed in to her outfit - chosen by Lissa.....

HHmmm I seem to have credited Lissa with 2 - and missed ppl out - I cant remember who got who!!

What I do know is that I was secretly hoping for something where I could still do my hair and make-up and try and look nice.  NO....I ended up looking THIS BAD:

At least this has given me more incentive to lose weight!!

So, once the excitement of all that was over with - we started on Christmas dinner - Connor did the roast potatoes and yorkshire puds, which helped as he did them in his kitchen - then it was chaos trying to get the food out as there was so much of it.  It wasn't bad - not the best and I didn't like the turkey cos it tasted like garlic! (cooked over onion and garlic)....but it was fun sitting down with everybody.

After dinner ppl went off and did their own thing for a while - me, Lissa and Erika had a play with my hair curlers - those two looked awesome - but my hair is thicker and older! lol.  Lissa curled my fringe and it just went at a right angle and into my eye! We could not stop laughing for quite some time!!

Eventually we all re-grouped and played a game that Connor and Emily invented - and then made up properly and gave it to Lissa and Antony as a pressie.  It was surprisingly good - well not that much of a surprise as we have seen them play it before and have a great time!

It ended up a good, late night!!!