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 Lostock and Rivington in the Parish of Deane near Bolton, Lancashire in the early 1700s.

The earliest known member of our Yates line is 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
  • William Yates 1785 - ?
    • William Yates 1808 - 1872
      • David Yates 1851 - 1920
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        • Eva Mary Yates 1895 - 1967