Researching Thomas Patton
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1065 people with the Patton surname? In that year Patton was ranked number 2534 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Thomas means "a twin" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Thomas Patton on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Thomas Patton and the Patton Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 3738 people with the Patton surname in the UK? Patton is now ranked number 1527 for popularity in the UK. |
Patton Genealogy Databases
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Some Famous People called Thomas Patton
Thomas Patton
Thomas William Saunderson Patton OBE (27 July 1914 – 20 October 1993), often known as Tommy Patton, was an Ulster unionist politician.
Patton grew up in Belfast, where he attended the Templemore Avenue School. He worked at Harland and Wolff for twenty-nine years from 1932, when he moved to the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum. He was elected to Belfast City Council for the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) at the 1973 local election. He retired in 1982, but continued to sit on the council, serving as Lord Mayor of Belfast that year. He was appointed as High Sheriff of Belfast for 1992/3.
Patton has been described by journalist Jim McDowell as an example of a "cornerstone of what the unionist working class vote was". Sinn Féin councillor Máirtín Ó Muilleoir notes Patton's malapropisms, giving an example of "the police are no detergent against the IRA". Another example was when he told a journalist that the City Hall would be painted in durex paint, rather dulux paint.
A park in east Belfast is named in Patton's memory.
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