Brief Life History of Francis
Francis Bates was born about 1692, in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
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Name Meaning
English: variant of Bate with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also common in Ireland.
Americanized form of German Betz . See also Betts .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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