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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 553,826 Historical Documents with Cates on Ancestry
- 156,416 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 81,110 Census and Voter Lists
- 20,002 Military Records
- 6,655 Immigration Records
- 289,643 Member Trees
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Number of Cates families
 110 - 217  37 - 109 |
 1 - 36  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cates families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cates census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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