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We in the broadly sprawling community of Belfast-Patetown have, as my grandfather used to say, more history than we can enjoy.
There are many ancient English families, particularly of the seafaring nobility, represented here. Among these families are those of The Peerage, such as Bedfords, Howells, Lancasters, Montagues, Seymours, etc., as well as lesser known nobility. Among the lesser nobility are my Deans and Pate and other kin subjects of my growing notes.
Those studying the history and genealogy of these families know that the Pett/Pate shipbuilding family came to America out of a religious and political calamity, in associations and relationships that were often deliberately obscured. The Pett shipbuilding dynasty was replaced in England by Greens and Johnsons, while Petts became Pates, in association with Lawsons in association with Indian Padgets in America.
Those with eyes to see will see (in the note below) the significance of Seymour Johnson (naval aviator killed in WWII) AFB, where I ride my bicycle in the mornings, while I mull over the significance of such ancient worthies. Mary Seymour was the daughter of the dowager Queen Katherine (nee‘ Parr), divorced wife of Henry VIII, and wife of Sir Thomas Seymour, first lover of Queen Elizabeth I.
Note On Mary Seymour
Copied From: Memoirs of the queens of Henry VIII., and his mother, Elizabeth of York
By Agnes Strickland (Pages 413-417) (1853)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Company Pub. Date: October 2008 ISBN-13: 9781437142983
http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA416&lpg=PA416&dq=Silas+Johnson+Denmark&sig=1wGu0H99Y48NrSu2531iFEU1gMQ&ei=Ac2CSoj3HKOBtweszYnYCg&ct=result&id=OWYNAAAAIAAJ&ots=lN4DImtbbJ&output=text
" Paul Johnson, a gentleman of good family and estate, residing at his mansion at Fordwich, in the county of Kent, also, having another named Nelhercourt, in the Isle of Thanet, married Margaret Heyman (of the baronet's family of Kent and Norfolk).
"Their son Sylas Johnson, married the daughter of sir Edward Bushel,1 who had married the only daughter of the duke of Somerset's younger brother, lord Seymour, which daughter the lord Seymour had by queen Katharine Parr, whom he married after the death of Harry the Eighth, whose queen she was. The above sir Edward Bushel's daughter was a great fortune to Silas Johnson; and their daughter, Mary Johnson, married the rev. Francis Drayton, of Little Chart, in Kent, where he and his wife lie buried."—From that marriage, the records of the pedigree, down to Lawson, are very clear and certain, and need not lengthen this statement.
Whether from any records, or knowledge, or tradition, the old grandmother declared the marriage of Katharine's daughter to sir Edward Bushel, it is impossible now to say ; but it seems that Silas Johnson, by his marriage with their daughter, Mary Bushel, obtained a great fortune, together with some relics of Katharine Parr's personal property, which have continued in the Lawson family, their descendants, ever since.
The Bushels were a very ancient and honourable family, and sir Edward Bushel, probably the same person referred to in the Lawson pedigree, was a gentleman of the household to Anne of Denmark, the queen of James L, and, with nine other knights, assisted in bearing her body to the grave.”
Silas Daniel Pate, grandson of Charles Pate, youngest son of Major Thoroughgood Pate, was named in honor of Silas Johnson, of the ancient family of my Vinnell mentor Cordell Johnson, of the Johnsons associated with the William Pate of Duplin County Pate cemetery.
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