Cates Family History
Cates Name Meaning
English: patronymic from the Old Norse byname Káti
(from káti ‘boy’). (Kate was not in use as a pet form
of Catherine during the Middle Ages.Probably in some
instances an Americanized spelling of German Goetz.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Cates Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cates families
 110 - 217  37 - 109 |
 1 - 36  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cates families
|
4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cates census records
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Cates Family Origin
Cates Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Cates Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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