This family history contains MANY Jameses and Williams. The Patrick family especially, had a fondness for the two names. James Patrick from Ireland had two living sons, James and William. Both James and William had sons named James and William. My great-grandfather (a William) broke with tradition and named both his sons . . . William!!! My grandfather (one of the two Williams) seems to have thought the whole tradition was getting silly and named his sons Roger and Alan. But, my brother is named William!
So, I will number the Jameses and Williams. The first time they appear in a post, I will use the number. If there are no others by the same name in the post then I will leave off the number in any further references to them. I have numbered the members of my family tree before those of William Knox Patrick because I expect to talk about them more.
James Patrick, b. Ireland 1779. James(1)
*James Knox Patrick, b. Birmingham, PA 1808. James(2)
********William Knox Patrick, b. Birmingham, PA 1841. William(5)
**************James B. Patrick, b. St. Louis, MO 1866. James(4)
**************William E. Patrick, Sr., b. St. Louis, MO 1885. William(6)
*********************William E. Patrick, Jr., b. St. Louis, MO 1909. William(7)
*********James Blackmore Patrick, b. Birmingham, PA 1845. James(5)
*William Patrick, b. Birmingham, PA 1814. William(1)
*********James McCall Patrick, b. St. Louis, MO 1848. James(3)
*********William Francis Patrick, b. St. Louis, MO 1852. William(2) AKA “Will”
**************William Brownlow Patrick, b. Leadville, CO 1885. William(3) AKA “Brownlow”
**************William Francis Patrick, Jr., b. Leadville, CO 1891. William(4)
