Brief Life History of William Edward
When William Edward Bate was born on 12 May 1846, in Bucknall, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Peter Sylvester Bate, was 31 and his mother, Margaret Cross, was 28. He married Hannah Shelley on 14 March 1868, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1859 and lived in Charleston, Wasatch, Utah, United States in 1900 and Wallsburg, Wasatch, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 6 March 1907, in Rigby, Jefferson, Idaho, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Rigby, Jefferson, Idaho, United States.
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- W.C. Bate, "United States Census, 1900"
- 1846 Christening of William Bate, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- William E. Bate, "Utah, County Marriages, 1871-1941"
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1854 · The Crimean War
The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
1856
Historical Boundaries: 1856: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1862: Wasatch, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Wasatch, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
from the Middle English personal name Bate. It could represent an unrecorded Old English name Bata, or a form of Batte, a short form of Anglo-Norman French names beginning with Bart-, such as Bartelmeu (see Bartholomew ) or Bartram (see Bertram ).
perhaps a topographic name from an unrecorded Middle English antecedent of the modern English dialect bate ‘river island or land liable to flooding’.
English:
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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William Edward Bate
William Bate was born in Staffordshire Poteriss, Hanley, England on May 12, 1846. The following is copied from his own handwriting: (Some changes have been made to spelling and punctuation.) I was …
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