Patrick married Gertruida Theodora Collette at St. Joseph's church in Batticaola on September 9, 1897. Gertrudia was born March 16, 1869. Her parents were George William Collette and Theodora Frederica de Koning.
Gertrudia married Edward Bingham Jonklass on June 5, 1907.
Batticaloa is the provincial capital of the eastern province of Sri Lanka. It became part of the British Empire in 1815 and was called Ceylon.
