When Frederick Henry Gates was born on 15 July 1857, in Jacksonville, Ulysses, Tompkins, New York, United States, his father, Miles William Gates, was 23 and his mother, Eunice Ann Miller, was 18. He married Cornelia Lavinia Hayes on 5 June 1877, in Cincinnatus, Cincinnatus, Cortland, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Cortland, Cortland, New York, United States in 1920 and De Kalb, St. Lawrence, New York, United States in 1925. He died on 23 December 1926, in Richville, De Kalb, St. Lawrence, New York, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Dryden, Dryden, Tompkins, New York, United States.
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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 ).
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