Jacob Gates was a Mormon and an early arrival in Salt Lake valley. Other Gates descendants were to be found in Worcester, Massachusetts. One line through his son Thomas came to New London, Connecticut. He arrived in 1638 from Hingham near Norwich in England on the Diligent and settled with other Puritans from Hingham in Hingham, Massachusetts. The Puritan Stephen Gates stayed in New England.
He became governor of Virginia briefly in 1611, but then returned to England. Sir Thomas Gates sailed for Virginia as head of the rescue party for the original Jamestown inhabitants. The Gates name appeared early in the history of America. The Gates surname was recorded as early as 1480 in Horsham in Sussex Henry Gates lived at the Kings Barn nearby in Cowfold in the 1660’s and the Gates of Alton in Hampshire date from the time of the Civil War.Īmerica. Gates may in some cases refer to the Sussex place-name of Eastergate, known as Gates in the 13th and 14th centuries. The Gates name spread around the southeast, from Essex to Kent, Sussex, and Hampshire. Three days later he was brought out to Tower Hill where at three blows his head was struck off.” “On Aughe was tried at the Tower and sentenced to death for treason. Sir John Gates prospered as a courtier under Henry VIII, but then lost his head when he backed the abortive attempt to put Lady Jane Grey on the English throne. This family purchased the Garnetts manor in High Easter (near present-day Chelmsford), which remained in their hands until 1582. Silvester atte Gates was rector of Brinton in Norfolk in 1354 and Thomas Gates, born in 1327, was the first of the Gates gentry family of Essex. The earliest appearances of the name were in East Anglia.
Grandparents of Henry Louis Gates Jr.Įngland. Thomas Gates in Massachusetts and descendants. Gates in America is often an anglicization of the German name Goetz. The Gates and Yates spellings developed separately in different parts of the country and probably reflected earlier pronunciation differences. The surname described a gatekeeper or one who lived by the gates of a walled town. Gates and Yates are both surnames that derived from the Old English gatu, plural of geat, meaning “gate.” Since medieval gates were usually arranged in pairs, fastened in the center, the plural name came to be used.
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