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My Yates Family |
The surname Yates is most abundant in Lancashire and Derbyshire and is also found in the English counties of Buckinghanshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire
Current research identifies our line of the Yates family as originating around Bolton le MoorsLostock and Rivington in the Parish of Deane near Bolton, Lancashire in the late early 1700s.
The earliest known member of our Yates line is William James Yates born about 1714. However little is known of the Yates family before the migration to Australia of his grandson, David Yates
Biographies are available for the following members of the Yates line
- James Yates 1742 - 1827