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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- 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
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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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