The name Patch is one of several derived from the word ?pasches? meaning Easter.
Forms such as ?Pache? may have been used as personal names for those born at Easter or
during the Passover Festival. Other derivations and spellings include Paeche, Pace,
Patche, Patchette, Patchin, Payche. Amond the earliest recorded members of the Patch
family in England were Henry Patche 1248, Nicholas Paeche, 1248, Richard Pacche 1273,
John Pacche 1273, William Payche 1327, Robertus Pache, 1379.