Joseph Coates

Brief Life History of Joseph

When Joseph Coates was born on 3 March 1875, in Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, his father, Augustus James COATES, was 37 and his mother, Jane HORTON, was 32. He married Mary Ann Jennings on 23 July 1898, in Islington Holy Trinity-Cloudesley Square, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Islington, London, England, United Kingdom in 1911 and Watford, Hertfordshire, England in 1939. He died in 1955, in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 80.

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Family Time Line

Joseph Coates
1875–1955
Mary Ann Jennings
1874–1964
Marriage: 23 July 1898
Joseph Coates
1899–1901
Francis Joseph Coates
1902–1989
William Horton Coates
1904–1970
Albert James Coates
1906–1975
Elsie Mary Coates
1908–
Alfred Fredrick Coates
1910–2002
Leonard Augustus Coates
1914–1991

Sources (8)

  • Joseph Coates in household of Augustus Coates, "England and Wales Census, 1881"
  • Joseph Coates, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008"
  • Joseph Coates, "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007"

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Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of numerous places called Coates, for example in Cambridgeshire, Gloucestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Shropshire, Sussex, and Wiltshire; Cotes in Leicestershire or Staffordshire; or possibly from Coat in Somerset, Cote in Oxford and Yorkshire, with excrescent -s; or possibly from any of numerous other places similarly named from the new Middle English plural form cotes of Old English cot (plural cotu) ‘cottage’, also ‘shelter’, and sometimes ‘woodman's hut’. It is possible that some bearers may be from a place whose current name is from the dative plural form of this word, cotum, for example Coatham (Durham) or Cottam, Cotham (Nottinghamshire), or from the plural of the related weak noun cote, plural coten. Cotham (Nottinghamshire) is early recorded as Cotes, and Coton (Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Northamptonshire) have many similar spellings. See also Coate . There are very small places in Midlothian, East Lothian, and Fife called Coates, but the surname seems rarely if ever to be Scottish in origin.

Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Kotz or perhaps German Koths .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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