User:Robin Patterson

Twitter: @Robin_Patterson. WordPress site. Google Plus. Family file on Geneanet.

See some of my ancestors on this wiki starting at Robin Forlonge Patterson (1940) (and you may look at the partly-written Robin Forlonge Patterson (1940)/autobiography).

http://robinfpatterson.tribalpages.com/ is my tribalpages site with over 14,000 relatives, collaterals, inlaws, and a few strays, updated to 2014 - or March 2018 if the latest upload goes well. No guarantee of total accuracy but mostly fairly well checked; corrections welcome! In April 2022 my FTM file was updated on Geneanet- see above.

My WorldConnect file (similar to TribalPages but with truly excellent ancestry and descendant charts) was still unable to be updated on 13 May 2018, though other parts of RootsWeb had been fixed. To find it once you reach WorldConnect, search for William Gibson Patterson, born 1915 in Wellington. Mine is ~robinp but there are partial copies by other people.

My data on Geni was uploaded in 2009 and I have done little with it since; other people have extended it backwards in time in several lines and added numerous distant cousins - not all genuine.

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New Castle County, Delaware.

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Scottish ancestry.

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. Possible descendant of Muhammad (though The Henry Project severs a link in the line that Geni.com showed me)

Prominent relatives[]

second cousin: the recently-deceased Sir Bruce Slane KNZM CBE, with Forlong ancestry
second cousin seven times removed: John (Longitude) Harrison (1693-1776), with Harrison ancestry
second cousin nine times removed: William Penn (1644-1718), founder of Pennsylvania, with Gobels ancestry (in common with the late William Addams Reitwiesner)
third cousin: Thea Margaret Gordon Gronvold, Marchioness of Ely (1911-2006), with Forlong ancestry
third cousin once removed: the recently-deceased astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, with MacGregor ancestry
fourth cousin: actor Hugh Grant (1960), with Maclean ancestry
fifth cousin eight times removed: Rob Roy - common ancestor James IV of Scotland
sixth cousin thrice removed: James K. Polk (1795-1849) (11th President of the United States), according to Geni.com - but I think the link is a little longer because Geni has a few Pollok/Polk generations mixed up there! See, for what it's worth, the path page (which used to say "4th cousin thrice removed", which was definitely wrong).
eighth cousin thrice removed: George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) (he of the "last stand"), with Pletjes ancestry - though a little questionable at the top end
ninth cousin once removed: Camilla Rosemary Shand (1947), Duchess of Cornwall
ninth cousin twice removed: Diana Frances Spencer, Princess of Wales (1961-1997), with common ancestor Lord Lee - but there is a shortish zigzag link through Snow and Baring families - https://www.geni.com/path/Robin-Patterson+is+related+to+Lady-Diana-Spencer-Princess-of-Wales?from=6000000003043152168&to=6000000013313514628
ninth cousin thrice removed: William Mountbatten-Windsor (1982), commonly known as "Wills" and 2nd in line to the throne of the UK
10th cousin: genealogist William Addams Reitwiesner (1954-2010), with op den Graeff ancestry, which the venerable William was sure did NOT descend from Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Julich Cleve and Berg (1562-1609); see his note 3208
10th cousin five times removed: Familypedia contributor J. Quinn C. Bradlee (1982-), with Hamilton ancestry
11th cousin thrice removed: Drew Michael Chansky (2001), Familypedia contributor, with Cromwell ancestry
12th cousin 4 times removed: author Tabitha King, with Lovett ancestry - see Elizabeth Lovett (1521-1577) and https://www.geni.com/people/Elizabeth-Weston/6000000006444618043
13th cousin a few times removed: Rachel Meghan Markle (1981), with common ancestor James IV of Scotland (1473-1513); see Markle subpage
maybe not 14th cousin: Donald John Trump (1946) - see Geni's path - however, by January 2018 that path has been cut by the removal of Murdo Macleod; a new zigzag path says "Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the USA is your fourth cousin's ex-partner's second great uncle's wife's first cousin thrice removed's ex-partner's ex-husband." - https://www.geni.com/path/Robin-Patterson+is+related+to+Donald-J-Trump-45th-President-of-the-USA?from=6000000003043152168&to=6000000007106626344 - and the "fourth-cousin" is Hugh Grant
17th cousin: Hillary Diane Rodham (1947) - see Geni's path, but some experienced genealogists disbelieve some of the Rodham line
17th cousin thrice removed: author and actress Brooke Shields (1965) - or 13th cousin once removed if Herman op den Graeff WAS really a son of Johann Wilhelm, Graf von Jülich & Kleve: Path found by Geni.com - see 10th cousin above
20th cousin once removed: New Zealand's new PM, Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern (1980), with Ardern(e) ancestry in Cheshire; there's a shorter path traceable on Geni.com through her mother's mother's mother's mother (but it's one of those zigzaggy ones that don't represent meaningful relationships)
24th cousin, 4 times removed: Sarah Jessica Parker (1965)
32-x-great-grandfather: Charlemagne (747-814) (according to Geni.com - see Charlemagne subpage, which shows a possible flaw)
and Geni.com told me "Gaius Julius Caesar III is your 34th great grandfather" (which is probably absolute nonsense, as you can see where I set out that line at my Caesars subpage; not recently checked).

Tangata whenua[]

Much more likely than Caesar is the current relationship to the man believed to be the last full-blooded Moriori: Geni.com tells me that Tame Horomona Rehe (1884-1933) "is Robin Forlonge Patterson's third cousin's wife's second great uncle's wife's second great niece's husband's father!" - http://www.geni.com/path/Robin-Patterson+is+related+to+Tame-Rehe?from=6000000003043152168&to=6000000012989247082 - but that doesn't make him a relative in the normal sense of the word. As that zigzag path includes Cochrane relatives, my "Patterson" cousins and second cousins have the same relationship to Tame, while the Patterson and Cochrane third cousins have a slightly closer relationship. Most of the New Zealanders in the path were born in the South Island, unsurprisingly. See more on my Moriori subpage.

Related question: are there any full-blooded Maori left? If so, would they please display their known whakapapa on Familypedia? (See also my Maori links subpage.)

Other connexions[]

Member of New Zealand Society of Genealogists since 1974.

I was one of the "top" 20 volunteer contributors to web directory Zeal - where my first interest was genealogy.

I have been active on a few Wiktionaries and a dozen Wikipedias etc; see, for example, http://sm.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits; commended on the "Te Reo" Wikipedia by the fellow whom I had promoted but who later demoted me.

Pages I should upgrade[]

(Because I started them. I have reduced this a bit in 2015 and a few since; the Peize people will need special treatment, possibly worth employing a bot for.)

Spam patrol if I have time[]

(which can be several times most days)

Some Essex relatives[]

(and related Scots)

0 - William LUCKYN b: c 1570 Shinges? otherwise Mascalls, in Great Baddow, Essex d: c 1610
  -  +Margaret JENNY b: c 1570 Father: Thomas JENNY 			
--	1 [Sir] William LUCHAN/LUCKYN b: 1594 Gt Baddow, Essex? d: c 1659
----- +Mildred CAPELL b: c 1594 [3rd dau] m: c 1619
------- 2 [Sir] Capell LUCKYN b: c 1621 d: c 1680
---------- +Mary GRIMSTON b: c 1632 Father: (Sir) Harbottle GRIMSTON, 2ND BT	Mother: Mary CROKE d: 18 Mar 1718/19	
------------	3 [Sir] William LUCKYN b: c 1663 d: c 1708	
--------------- +Mary SHERRINGTON b: c 1663 m: 1 Dec 1681 St Peter's, Cornhill, [London? Essex?]	Father: William SHERRINGTON	Mother: Elizabeth [SHERRINGTON] d: c Nov 1749	
---------------- 4 [Sir] Harbottle LUCKYN b: c 1682 d: 4 Feb 1636/37 Messing, Essex [unmarried]	
---------------- 4 William LUCKYN/GRIMSTON b: c 1686
-- *2nd Wife of [Sir] William LUCHAN/LUCKYN:
----- +Elizabeth PYNCHON	b: 1604 to 1614 m: 1 Dec 1634 St Bride's, London	Father: Sir Edward PINCHON Mother: Dorothy WESTON d: 7 Jul 1667	
------- 2 Dorothy LUCHAN	b: c 1650						
---------- +John/James LOCKHART b: c 1656 m: c 1685 Father: William LOCKHART Mother: Robina SEWSTER			
------------	3 Ann/e LOCK[H]ART b: c 1690
--------------- +[Capt] John POLLOK OF BALGRAY b: c 1690 Father: Sir Robert [1st Bt] POLLOK	Mother: Annabella STEWART
---------------- 4 [Lady] Robina POLLOK b: c 1730 d: 1820
-------------------	 +[Sir] Hew CRAWFORD-POLLOK [2ND BT] b: c 1730 m: c 1755 Father: Hew CRAWFORD OF JORDANHILL Mother: Mary GREENSHIELDS d: 1794
---------------------5 Mary CRAWFURD b: c 1758 d: 1842
------------------------ +John Hamilton of BARDOWIE
--------------------- *2nd Husb of Mary CRAWFURD:
------------------------ +General Fletcher of SALTOUN m: 1775
--------------------- 5 [Sir] Robert CRAWFORD-POLLOK [3RD BT]	b: 1762 d: 7 Aug 1845 [dsp]	
--------------------- 5 Hew CRAWFURD b: c 1763 d: 25 Dec 1831
------------------------ +Jane JOHNSTONE Father: William Johnstone of HEADFORT
--------------------- 5 Robina Lockhart CRAWFURD b: c 1766 d: 1837 [unmarried]	
--------------------- 5 Lucken/Luchan (Lucy) CRAWFORD	b: c 1767 (3rd daughter) d: 13 Dec 1850	
------------------------ +John GORDON-CUMING-SKENE b: 9 Jun 1761 Pitlurg, ABD, SCT m: 1782 to 1783 Father: John GORDON-CUMING OF PITLURG ETC	Mother: Mary FULLERTON d: 6 Apr 1828

Lucken Crawford and John Gordon were my nearest ancestors among those. Robina Sewster's mother was Anna, sister of Oliver Cromwell.

TODO?[]

http://family.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Navbox_county-uk&limit=500 - see Category:City of Bristol, go on from there using {{ctycat-eu}}

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