Gates Family History
- Gates Name Meaning
- English: topographic name for someone who lived by the gates of a medieval walled town. The Middle English singular gate is from the Old English plural, gatu, of geat ‘gate’ (see Yates). Since medieval gates were normally arranged in pairs, fastened in the center, the Old English plural came to function as a singular, and a new Middle English plural ending in -s was formed. In some cases the name may refer specifically to the Sussex place Eastergate (i.e. ‘eastern gate’), known also as Gates in the 13th and 14th centuries, when surnames were being acquired. Americanized spelling of German Götz (see Goetz). Translated form of French Barrière (see Barriere).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 2,777,684 Historical Documents with Gates on Ancestry
- 582,722 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 431,752 Census and Voter Lists
- 76,185 Military Records
- 52,773 Immigration Records
- 1,634,252 Member Trees
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Number of Gates families
 589 - 1,176  197 - 588 |
 1 - 196  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gates families
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88 - 173 30 - 87 |
1 - 29 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Gates census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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