The Fitz-Patrick Mythology

      1200AD - Present

 

NOTE:  THE KING OF OSRUIGHE PAYS HOMAGE TO THE KING OF

                ENGLAND 1172                                                                              

 

NOTE:  THE SCURGE OF THE NORMANS

 

120. Domhnall Mac Gilla Patraic of Magh Lacca (Magh-Laeighse)

 

121. Seaffraidh Mac Gilla Patraic, King of Sliabh Bladhma (Slieve Bloom)

                                                                                                                              1250AD

122. Seaffraidh Bacagh Mac Gilla Patraic

 

123. Seaffraidh Fin Mac Gilla Patraic, Lord of Upper Ossory                 1300AD

 

124. Domhnal Dubh Mac Gilla Patraic, Lord of Upper Ossory

 

125. Domhnall Mac Gilla Patraic                                                                    1350AD 

 

126. Fingbin (Florence) Mac Gilla Patraic, Lord of Upper Ossory             1400AD

 

127. Finghbin Na Culcoile Mac Gilla Patraic, Lord of Upper Ossory.        1450AD

 

128. Sean (John) Mac Gilla Patraic, Lord of Upper Ossory

 

129. Brian Na Luirech Mac Gilla Patraic, Lord of Upper Ossory

 

130. Brian Oge (Barnaby) Mac Gilla Patraic, First Baron of Castletown, Lord of Upper Ossory                                                                                               1500AD

 

 

131. Finghbin (Florence) Mac Gilla Patraic, Third Baron of Castletown, Lord of Upper Ossory                                                                                             1600AD

 

132. John Mac Gilla Patraic of Castletown

 

133. James Fitz-Patrick of Grantstown

         

134. Nicholas Fitz-Patrick

 

135. George Fitz-Patrick                                                                                  1700AD

 

136. John Fitz-Patrick of Clonturk (Clontarf)

 

137. Joseph Fitz-Patrick of Drumcondra

 

138. Joseph Fitz-Patrick (1761 – 1831)                                                          1800AD

 

139. Frederick Thomas Edwin Fitz-Patrick (1790 – 1871)   

 

Rev. Frederick Thomas was a well-educated man of the times.  He received a Bachelors of Arts degree at Eaton in 1813 and a Masters of Arts degree from Trinity College in 1832.  He was the Magistrate for Co. Cavan and Rector of Lugan, Co. Cavan.  Before going to Lugan, he was the Rector of Shercock, Baillieborough, and Virginia in Co. Cavan. He married Edwina Stone, the daughter of Thomas Stone, Esq.

 

140. Frederick Fitz-Patrick (1821 –1898)                                                      1850AD

 

The Rev. Fitz-Patrick was born in Bryn Edwyn and was educated, in Holy Orders, with a Masters of Arts at Trinity College.  He was Rector of Cloone, Co. Leitrim, at Virginia, Co. Cavan, and a Magistrate for Co. Cavan.

 

While at the Rectory in Virginia, Co. Cavan, the Rev. was considered dashing, well educated and the owner of fine horses.  He met with one of his parishioners, the Lady Olivia Taylour (Lady In Waiting to Queen Victoria).  Lady Olivia was the daughter of Lord Thomas Taylour, 2nd Marquees of Headford and the Gentleman In Waiting to the Queen.  The Rev. and the Lady Olivia were married August 10, 1853.

 

The Rev. Frederick Fitz-Patrick was not inclined to the life of a country parson; or, perhaps, the more English minded congregation viewed him with stern disapproval.  The Rev. gentleman was very fond of the chase and would take a morning service with a surplice thrown over his riding kit and hurry through it as fast as he could and then ride off with the hounds.  Sometimes he would forget the evening service; then remember suddenly, throw on a surplice and stole without changing from his hunting outfit.

 

The Rev. retired from Cloone Grange, Co. Leitrim to Warren Hall near Chester, England. He and Lady Olivia later resided at Plas Draw, Llangyntal in the Valley of Clyde, Wales.  Their place of rest may be seen at Llanbedr Church yard beneath a magnificently carried Celtic Cross.

 

141. Oliver Thomas Edward Fitz-Patrick (1863 – 1928)                             1900AD

 

Born at Mohil, Co. Leitrim, Ireland July 24, 1863.  Died July 18, 1928 Saticoy, Co. Ventura, California

As the story goes, Oliver Thomas Edward Fitz-Patrick, Esq., came to Texas from Ireland circa 1885.  He bought sheep from a Mexican Ranchero and Commancheros later stole them back from him.  In the interim, he met Pheobe Lucretia White who was visiting from California.  The Whites had settled west of San Antonio, Texas in the 1840’s.  Colonel John Adams White later moved from Texas to Stockton, California where Pheobe had been born in 1873.

 

Oliver and Phoebe fell in love.  Oliver felt that it was necessary to return to Ireland and settle his accounts before entering a marriage.  He promised Phoebe that he would come back for her.  Seven years later he returned.  They were married in August of 1893 at St. Marks Church in San Antonio, Texas.  They then rejoined her family in Ventura County, California.  They had three children, Mary, John, and Olivia.

 

142. Mary “Mateet” Isabel Fitz-Patrick (1899 – 1986) Co. Ventura, California

 

Mary learned to out ride and out shoot any man west of the Rockies and was renowned for her ability to tame wild horses.

 

143. John Fitz-Patrick (Mateet’s brother)

 

John settled down to run the ranch in Ventura County.  He was an accomplished horseman and cut a fine figure of a cowboy when astride his pride and joy, Yankee Boy.

 

Olivia Fitz-Patrick

 

Olivia married into the Larisch family of Austria and became the Countess Olivia Grafin Larisch Von Moennich of Palfau

 

144. Edward “Uncle Eddie” Fitz-Patrick (John’s son)

 

Uncle Eddie is our current Lord Of The House Of Ossory, referred to by some as the House Of Upper Ossory.  He lives with his wife Betty at the end of a peaceful cul-de-sac in Ventura, California only minutes away from the land his grandfather settled in the late 1800’s along the little trickle of a creek named by the Spanish explorers as Aliso Creek.  He still farms avocados, persimmons, and apples on a portion of the original Fitz-Patrick Estate affectionately known as the Old Home Ranch.

 

145. Mary “Tansy” Isabel Fitz-Patrick Constable (1923 -  )  Co.Inyo,California (Mateet’s daughter)                                                                                           1930AD

 

She was known as the most beautiful young girl in the Santa Clara River Valley.  At 12 years old, already showing the figure of a young women, graceful, and highly intelligent, Mary could ride with the best, hunt and shoot with the rest, and melt the hearts of boys and men alike.  By the time she was 16 she was Queen of every rodeo and beauty contest locally and statewide, a high school graduate, and had already been presented to all the royal courts of Great Britain and Europe as the Lady Mary Tansy Constable Fitz-Patrick of the House Of Ossory and affectionately referred to, as was her predecessors Princess Daisy and Lady Cornwallis-West, as that “beautiful wild west Irish girl”.

 

146. John Hylas Smith (1946 -  ) Co. Ventura, California (Tansy’s son) 1950AD

 

Spring came early along the coast of California in 1946.  The war to settle all wars was a thing of the past, the future bright, and a nation braced for the advent of a calipee of births from the coupling of returning heroes and their waiting wives and girl friends.  It was in the afternoon of April Fools Day 1946 that young Tansy Fitz-Patrick told her husband John Kneale that she needed to go to the hospital and it wasn’t any April Fools joke.  In the early morning of April 2nd, 1946, John Kneale Smith’s wife, Tansy, gave birth to their first son, John Hylas at Foster’s General Hospital in Ventura, California not far from the North American ancestral home of the Fitz-Patrick family in Aliso Canyon, County Ventura.  Soon after Tansy gave birth to John Hylas, she and husband, John K., headed up north to San Francisco.  John K. was enrolled at Stanford University and the two were to move into a small apartment near campus.  Tansy brought along her younger stepsister, Majo, to look after baby John Hylas while she was at work and John K. was in school.

 

After John K. graduated from college, the family moved to Independence California where grandmother, Mateet, and her new husband, Archie Dean were running a pack train back into t he Sierras via Onion Valley.  They moved into a small rental next to a mechanics shop across the street from the American Legion Hall.  At the time, Debbs Yandell had his dairy/farm up for sale.  John K. had gotten a job as an Engineering Aide and wife, Tansy, was anxious to settle in the country.  John K. talked to Mr. Yandell and offered to buy the property.  Being short of cash, he asked his mother-in-law, Mateet, to help him out.  They all went to the Bank of America in Bishop, California where Mateet put up 5 of her prime milk cows as collateral and the deal was signed.  At 2 years old, John Hylas moved with his mom and dad to Independence Dairy.  The year was 1948.

 

I remember the day we moved to the new house.  We had been living in an apartment in town, which was basically a converted chicken coup.  I can remember driving into the driveway at the new place and seeing a toilet out on the front lawn.  It was so exciting to have a place of our own. And, of course, that new place was the Independence Dairy that came to be known as the Smith Ranch.

 

Updated January 28, 2010