Happy New Year!
Glad to hear you're both back to health.
We now live in SW France, so access to physical records is a bit difficult. Also we too are on the "have nots" side of the Bathe family so regular return visits are out of the question - and when we do get back to the UK it is to see descendants in Sussex and Yorkshire, not West Country ancestors!
I had a Bathe great uncle who was convinced there was "money in the family" and he wanted to find out where it was, so started doing some family history back in the 1930s. He stopped suddenly because he found a skeleton in the family cupboard - a murder, was the legend - but I have found no evidence to back that one up. However I also found that his grandmother, who did come from a relatively wealthy family (to whom my great uncle paid tribute by giving one of his sons that family name as a second Christian name) had had a daughter three years before she was married - father unknown! That, I suspect, was a much more compelling reason to stop his researches!!!
My Bathe Wiltshire connection is definitely through GGGrandfather William (b Wroughton c1817 - 5 censuses agree on that), son of William, a gardener - that's from GGGrandfather's marriage certificate.
It was my brother-in-law who came up with Patience Chivers as his mother - via IGI, so I'm not that certain about her. Now someone on Ancestry has put his mother as Martha Patience Hawkins - but there are no sources given, so, again, I'm not sure.
If either of these names appear even on the outermost twigs of your tree, it would be very interesting.
Best wishes
Peter