Genet Gates

Brief Life History of Genet

When Genet Gates was born on 12 January 1836, in Livonia Township, Wayne, Michigan, United States, her father, Samuel Gates III, was 31 and her mother, Lydia Downer, was 25. She married Willard Bingham on 24 April 1853, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 2 November 1899, in Wilson, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Willard Bingham
1830–1913
Genet Gates
1836–1899
Marriage: 24 April 1853
Flora Genet Bingham
1854–1940
Willard Bingham Jr
1855–1884
Josephine Bingham
1857–1920
Jedediah Grant Bingham
1858–1889
Parley Pratt Bingham Sr
1859–1933
Ida Bingham
1861–1881
Elijah Bingham
1862–1939
Elisha Gates Bingham
1862–1942
Ezra Bingham
1864–1900
Erastus Legrand Bingham
1866–1875
Lydia Maria Bingham
1868–1869
Lucinda Bingham
1870–1926
Zelphia Isadore Bingham
1871–1889
Nancy Jane Bingham
1876–1957
Emmeretta Bingham
1878–1966

Sources (55)

  • Jeannette Bingham in household of William Bingham, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Genet Gates - Government record: Census record: birth: 12 January 1836; Livonia, Wayne, Michigan, United States
  • Utah, Select County Marriages, 1887-1937

World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1850

Historical Boundaries: 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Weber, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Weber, Utah, United States

1854

Historical Boundaries: 1854: Weber, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Weber, Utah, United States

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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Willard Bingham

Willard Bingham, the 7th child and 4th son of Erastus Bingham and Lucinda Gates, was born 19 February 1830, in Concord, Essex, Vermont. He was the seventh generation from Thomas Bingham, who was chr …

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