Coates Family History
Coates Name Meaning
English: status name for a cottager (see Cotter 2), or a
topographic name for someone who lived in a relatively humble dwelling
(from Middle English cotes, plural (or genitive) of
cote, cott), or a habitational name from any of the
numerous places named with this word, especially Coates in
Cambridgeshire and Cotes in Leicestershire.Scottish:
variant of Coutts.Americanized spelling of German and
Jewish Kotz or German Koths, from a variant of the
medieval personal name Godo (see Gottfried).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Coates
Name Distribution of Coates Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Coates families
 1,773 - 3,544  592 - 1,772 |
 1 - 591  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Coates families
|
45 - 87 16 - 44 |
1 - 15 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Coates census records
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Coates Family Origin
Coates Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Coates Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Coates Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Coates census records
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Military Service by Coates
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