Yates Family History
Yates Name Meaning
English: from Middle English yates ‘gates’, plural of
yate, Old English geat ‘gate’, hence a topographic name
for someone who lived near the gates of a walled town, or a metonymic
occupational name for a gatekeeper.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Yates
Name Distribution of Yates Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Yates families
 4,427 - 8,852  1,476 - 4,426 |
 1 - 1,475  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Yates families
|
80 - 157 27 - 79 |
1 - 26 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Yates census records
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Yates Family Origin
Yates Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Yates Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Yates Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Yates census records
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Military Service by Yates
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