Brief Life History of Otis Eli
When Otis Eli Gates was born on 1 May 1909, in Petite Rivière Bridge, Municipality of the District of Lunenburg, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, Emmett Reginald Gaetz, was 23 and his mother, Lulu Young, was 19. He married Francis Elizabeth Alders on 5 October 1931, in Kentville, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada. He lived in Municipality of the District of Lunenburg, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1911. He died on 6 February 1972, in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 62, and was buried in Port Williams, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Family Time Line
Sources (6)
- Otis Gates in household of Emmet Gates, "Canada Census, 1911"
- Otis Eli Gates birth record, Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics
- Otis Eli Gates, "Nova Scotia Marriages, 1907-1932"
Spouse and Children
1909–1972 Male
1904–1941 Female
Parents and Siblings
1886–1953 Male
1890–1973 Female
Siblings (6)
1909–1972 Male
1911–1983 Female
1913– Female
1914–1963 Male
1916– Female
+1 More Child
World Events (3)
1921 · Racing Schooner Launched
Age 12
1945 · HMCS Esquimalt Torpedoed
Age 36
1955 · Canso Causeway Completed
Age 46
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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