Amos Gates

Male1805–1837

Brief Life History of Amos

Amos Gates was born in 1805, in New York, United States. He married Eunice Bernice Wattles in 1829, in New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He died in 1837, in Joliet, Will, Illinois, United States, at the age of 32.

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Family Time Line

Amos Gates
1805–1837
Eunice Bernice Wattles
1805–1901
Marriage: 1829
Mary Almira Gates
1830–1907
Louisa Gates
1832–

Sources (3)

  • Amos Lewis Gates in entry for Mary Almyra Cornish, "Minnesota Deaths, 1887-2001"
  • Amos Lewis Gates in entry for Mary Almyra Cornish, "Minnesota Deaths and Burials, 1835-1990"
  • Amos Lewis Cates in entry for Mary Almyra Cornish, "Minnesota Deaths and Burials, 1835-1990"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    1829New York, United States
  • Children (2)

    World Events (8)

    1808

    Age 3

    Atlantic slave trade abolished.

    1812

    Age 7

    War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.

    1818

    Age 13

    Illinois is the 21st state.

    Name Meaning

    English: variant of Gate with plural or excrescent -s. The English surname Gate has three possible origins: (i) a topographic name from Middle English gate ‘gate’ (Old English geat, dative plural gatum), denoting someone who lived by a gate or set of gates (possibly sometimes an occupational name for a gate keeper; compre Yates); (ii) in northern England, the East Midlands, and East Anglia, a topographic name from Middle English gate ‘street, road, path’ (Old Norse gata) for someone who lived by a road (compare Street ); (iii) a nickname meaning ‘goat’, from northern Middle English gate, gait (Old English gāt, Old Norse geitr).

    Americanized form of German Götz (see Goetz ).

    Americanized form (translation into English) of French Barrière (see Barriere ).

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

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