Hello all, Will apologize in advance for the length of this one, but I couldn't find a way to condense it; anyway, I have a new theory regarding the maternal ancestry of Wm Coats of Rowan Co. NC. As you read this, please note the names that I cite in all caps. Maybe coincidence is working again, but I don't think so. Would appreciate comments and help with any details that have escaped me so far. 1st: I think it is generally accepted by those working in the Rowan Co. NC Coat(e)s group that Wm Coats of Rowan had a brother named Henry "Cotes"(d.c. 1790)and probably a sister, Louise Rene Coats(who married a Jacob Sutton). And there may well have been others that I can't absolutely place in the tree yet, such as Benjamin Coats. 2d: Henry "Cotes"by wife Sussanah Elliott had at least one son, ALLEN/ALLIN Coates, b.c. 1770. Louis Rene Coats and Jacob Sutton had a son James WILEY Sutton, and Wm Coats of Rowan had a number of sons, including WILEY Coates, who married a Sarah ADAMS. 3rd: Noting the names ALLIN and WILEY, I think that it is at least possible, if not probable, that Henry "Cotes" and Wm Coats above were the sons of Wilson William Coats(b.c. 1725, d.?)and that his wife was likely ________WILEY/WYLY. Here's why I think this. I found a Thomas Willey/Wyly/Wiley b.c. 1703 Ireland, who was a Quaker and a member of New Garden MM in PA before 1754. It also appears that this Thomas was the son of an ALLIN/ALLEN WILEY(b.c. 1670 and d.c. 28 Mar 1748), a member of the Kennet MM in PA(Chester Co.?). However, he is variously styled as being of Cecil Co. MD and/or Chester Co. PA. Allin Wiley was married c. 1694 to a SARAH ADAMS(b.c. 1661-1675, prob. in Westmeath, Ireland, d. 16 Oct 1706 in PA/MD. I naturally am wondering if she is somehow related to the Sarah Adams, who, at a much later date, married Wiley Coates in NC. Maybe coincidence, maybe not. 4th: Thomas Wiley(b.c. 1703 and liv. in PA bef. 1754)apparently married in 1729 to a Rachel Rowland in PA or MD, but removed with a certificate from New Garden MM to Cane Creek MM(NC)on 10-05-1754. His wife Rachel and one unnamed dau. were apparently with him. However, by 4-3-1762, Thomas was disowned by Cane Creek MM and was apparently never taken back "into the fold", so to speak as there is no further record of him among the Quakers in NC. I also noted that the western edge of the Cane Creek MM "jurisdiction"(if that is the right word)was very, very close to Davidson Co. NC(Old Rowan), and since I haven't found any other Wiley/Wyly families in the same proximity to the Coat(e)s families in Rowan, I am wondering if this Thomas might be the father of the wife of Wm Coats???? At this point, I am still working from the presumption that Wilson Wm Coats and son Wm were originally in or near Edgecombe Co. NC before moving west into Old Rowan. 5th: However, despite all of the above, I must state that my theory is not without some hazards. Thomas Wiley may have died before 1772 as a Rachel Wyly was disowned by Cane Creek MM in 1772 for marrying a Benj. Few, a non-Quaker; she may have been the widow of Thomas or his daughter or neither. If she was the daughter, then I am in trouble already. In addition, the Cane Creek MM records also show a Elizabeth Wyly SHARP being disowned in 1763 for marrying out of unity. Similarly in 1772, a Ruth Wiley was disowned as well as a Wm Wiley. I don't if or how these last three are connected to Thomas. Also, Thomas Wyly had these brothers: Wm(1707-1775) John(b.c. 1695) Joseph(1697-1751) And I have not yet traced their travels or their immediate descendants. They may have gone to NC as well or they may have stayed put or moved elsewhere. Should add here that Thomas Wyly also had three sisters: Mary, Margaret, and MARTHA, which brings me to my next point. 6th:Just to round out my idea, I should add that ALLIN WYLY/WILEY(c.1670-1748)was, per info found on the Wiley list in rootsweb, the son of a HENRY WEILLY(b.c. 1632, Gloucester, England, d.c. 2 July 1690 Ireland)by his wife, MARTHA_________. Now from this point, I am going to become even more theoretical, but bear with me while I sort it out.... I think that the Martha above is identical to a MARTHA ALEN, who is shown in the IGI as having been born c. 21 Sept 1636 in Dublin, Ireland, and while I may be making a very long shot here, she MAY have been the daughter of a JAMES ALEN, b.c. 1617 St. Wolstans, Co. Kildare, Ireland, the son of Nicholas Alen, b.c. 1597 at St. Wolstan's by his wife, Aminet Barnewall(of the Barnewalls of Crickstown, Meath). And James Alen apparently married Ann Dillon, dau. of James Dillon, 1st Earl of Roscommon(liv. 1622). Now while I may be wrong about Martha ALEN being the dau. of James, etc., of St. Wolstan's, Co. Kildare, I think that the discovery of the ALLIN WILEY(1670-1748)provides if not a definitive answer to how the names ALLEN/ALLIN and WILEY managed to make their way into the Coat(e)s family in Old Rowan Co. NC. If anyone can throw more light on Wiley/Wyly/Willey families in or near Old Rowan Co. NC or, on Allin Wiley or any of his immediate descendants, we might be able to turn my theory into something better(I hope)and piece together the rest of the Coat(e)s line before they arrived in Old Rowan. For the moment, I am still thinking that Wm Coats of Rowan was a grandson of the John Pomery Coats of Pasquotank Co. NC, but I also know that the iron-clad proof for this is still not there. Am hoping John D. Coates is still monitoring the list as this theoretical reconstruction involves his line as well, and I was hoping he might be able to criticize or see something else that I've missed. Regards to all, Larry
http://www.combs-families.org/combs/ this is a Combs family research site but it does give lots of info on those early areas of MD/PA/VA and then shows how the family fanned out to other areas including TN and SC.... There is a 1799 Grainger County TN tax list showing a Charles Coats early in that area.... Shows info on the Courts/Coarts family of MD as well.... Char
Hello, I received this from another list and printed it out for my own reference. Gup A very useful publication of the Bureau of the Census, Measuring America, The Decennial Censuses, 1790-2000, is available online at: http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/ma.html This book (online in seven parts) contains population census forms and instructions to the census enumerators for censuses from 1790-2000. I have found the printed copy very useful, too.
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FYI... ----Original Message Follows---- From: Jane Digerness <[email protected]> To: Charlotte Coats <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Coats genealogy in N.Ireland Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:25:05 -0700 (PDT) Hi, Charlotte... THANK YOU for your quick response...and I have to apologize for my slow reply. Wednesday I was swamped with one thing after another. Yesterday was "doctor" day 35 mi from home, plus some shopping up there, and today is wash day...but I'm not letting THIS day pass without responding to some e-mails. Like you, I'm fearful of changing e-mail addresses for fear of losing family history contacts!! My CRAIG branch--from Straid (near Gracehill, which is near Ballymena), County Antrim, N.Ireland--first arrived in America in 1864--just two weeks or 2 mos--depending on who is telling the story, and we can't find the ship they came on) before my grandfather was born in Brooklyn. Then in 1865/66, they migrated on to southern Illinois, and I have a "gut" feeling they went to relatives there...but whether it was of the CRAIG family or the associated McCLURKIN family, I don't know...maybe both. The McClurkins landed in SC in the 1700's, and may have come with your Craigs. I just can't help feeling there are connections we are not seeing among some of these different groups!!! RIGHT!! The paper trail is pretty iffy...especially when you get into Ireland!! We have my CRAIG line back to John, b 1717, probably in Larne, Co. Antrim, and his brother Adam, b 1718. But we have no parents for them, nor a clue when they arrived from Scotland, except Grandpa said his ancestors only left Scotland because they were directed to go to N.Ireland and put down the Irish who were giving the English king all kinds of fits. Somehow I got clear out of high school with never having had a history course! I didn't dodge it--have always loved anything associated with history! But I don't have dates and places in my head! I'd guess it was in the latter 1600's, early 1700's that the Irish found Scots taking over N.Ireland, but I don't know that! IF there is a connection from a COATS family to my great-grandmother Jane DUNBAR CRAIG, it would be in N.Ireland, as she was born in (or about) 1823, and she and her husband James didn't bring their family to America until 41 yrs after that. Getting "across the pond" with this ancestry was something else!!! THANKFULLY I had a cousin, though he was not a genealogist, he was interested in the CRAIG origins; he was in England and decided to go to Ireland before coming back to the USA and search out the Craigs. I gave him what clues I had, and he and his wife spent the better part of two weeks searching, until he FOUND them in a little Moravian church in Gracehill! What info we have on them comes from the parish registers of that church. I also have a smidgeon of info from Griffith's Evaluation of 1862. What are some of your Craig names who came to America in the mid-1700's?? I have just a little on a couple of Craig families who came in that time period. Please do keep in touch. I keep hoping all of these things will Click and come together sometime!!! THANKS again... Jane :) --- Charlotte Coats <[email protected]> wrote: > Yep, I'm still here...afraid to change emails > because of the family > history....:) > > Well, my Craigs are from Ireland/Scotland, > Scotch/Irish, but they came here > mid 1700s...my Coats are out of SC....... > > NY is one of those areas where we don't have any > info on the Coats...but my > Craig line is out of PA and SC...these are very > large famlilies out of York > and Westmoreland Counties in PA...so whether any of > them went into NY I > don't know...I can usually get my lines back to the > American Revolutionary > Period but beyound that it gets real murky...not to > mention in MD the names > is spelled Courts and Coarts....the Courts has been > transcribed as Coates > .... > > > Coate, Coates, Coats Digital Archive > http://www.coatsarchive.us > > The above link will take you to the info that I do > have on Coats... > > Char > > > ----Original Message Follows---- > From: Jane Digerness <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Coats genealogy in N.Ireland > Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 09:36:58 -0700 (PDT) > > Hi, Charlotte... > I hope you are still at this "address!" > This morning my cousin Barbara sent me an e-mail > she > had gotten from you sometime back relative to the > possibility that our DUNBAR great-grandmother was > the > daughter of a COATS/COATES woman who married into a > Dunbar family in the early 1800's in Belfast, or > surrounding area, and had a daughter, Jane Dunbar, > born 1823. Jane (for whom I am named) married James > "Red" CRAIG in the 1840's and had a large family in > Straid (near Gracehill and Ballymena, County > Antrim), > North Ireland. We have Craig genealogy for a couple > more generations before that, but Jane has been a > mystery for all 53 years I've been searching for > her. > There seems to be just NOTHING! > James had been raised a Moravian, and when he > married "outside the faith," he was ousted, but > James > was received back in and they took in Jane, too--and > they were Moravians in Brooklyn, NY...then became > staunch Presbyterians in Illinois and Kansas. > The theory keeps popping up--TRADITION, you > know--that Jane's mother was a COATS, and we seem to > be unable to either prove or disprove that idea! > Can you shed any light on it?? > THANK YOU very much for your time and interest!! > Jane D.D. > [email protected] > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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FYI..... ----Original Message Follows---- From: Jane Digerness <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Coats genealogy in N.Ireland Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 09:36:58 -0700 (PDT) Hi, Charlotte... I hope you are still at this "address!" This morning my cousin Barbara sent me an e-mail she had gotten from you sometime back relative to the possibility that our DUNBAR great-grandmother was the daughter of a COATS/COATES woman who married into a Dunbar family in the early 1800's in Belfast, or surrounding area, and had a daughter, Jane Dunbar, born 1823. Jane (for whom I am named) married James "Red" CRAIG in the 1840's and had a large family in Straid (near Gracehill and Ballymena, County Antrim), North Ireland. We have Craig genealogy for a couple more generations before that, but Jane has been a mystery for all 53 years I've been searching for her. There seems to be just NOTHING! James had been raised a Moravian, and when he married "outside the faith," he was ousted, but James was received back in and they took in Jane, too--and they were Moravians in Brooklyn, NY...then became staunch Presbyterians in Illinois and Kansas. The theory keeps popping up--TRADITION, you know--that Jane's mother was a COATS, and we seem to be unable to either prove or disprove that idea! Can you shed any light on it?? THANK YOU very much for your time and interest!! Jane D.D. [email protected]
FYI.... ----Original Message Follows---- From: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [DNA] Newspaper article on SMGF project Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 09:22:20 -0700 (PDT) The link to this Deseret News (Salt Lake City) article came on one of my other mail lists. http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,600129402,00.html Rebecca
We have a new member in our Coats DNA project!! I don't know anything on the family info yet...but you'll be the first to know when I get it...!! Char Coats, Coates, Coate Archive now at: http://www.coatsarchive.us
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----Original Message Follows---- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Found Coates Posting onm Roots Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 16:22:13 EDT Hi Char! I found this in Roots Web. I get automatic updates on all new Coates postings. Don't know if you get these postings too. Anyway, this lookes interesting for someone out there. Wish it was I. http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2JJ.2ACEB/790 Photo of Edd Coates. Author: Denese Alvis Date: 14 Apr 2005 1:23 AM GMT Surnames: Coates Classification: Query Post Reply | Mark Unread Report Abuse Print Message Found in an antique shop in Culpeper, Virginia, a 1'"x1", black and white photo mounted on cardboard. In the picture is a young male child. The picture appears to have been taken in the late 1800's to early 1900's. On the back is written Edd (spelled as written) Coates. We would like to help this little guy find his way back to family. Please feel free to contact me at [email protected] Best wishes.... Dee Happy digging to all of my potential cousins. -Donna Mollaun
Hi Charlotte, I'm connected, but not related. My fourth great grandfather was Thomas Gilbert of Newberry County. When his first wife Rebecca Gauntt died, he married her sister, Mary Gauntt Coats. Mary was the widow of William Coats, and they had sons Daniel P. and Frederick. Thomas and Mary moved from Newberry County to Limestone Co., AL sometime in the late 1820s. Daniel had moved to Nacadoches County, TX by 1850. Jane
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----Original Message Follows---- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Coates from Shawnee Ohio Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:42:19 EDT Dear Char, I have an extensive tree of the Charles E. Coates & Ellen (Taylor) Coates family who cam from England in 1863. Charles & Ellen first settled in Cardon, Huntington Co., PA. They all moved to Shawnee, Perry Co., OH before 1880. Their children were: 1.William Coates: Born <1864> Cardon, PA who married Minnie Thompson 2.Fanny Coates: Born May 1865 Cardon, PA 3.James Coates: Born <1867> Cardon, PA who married Minnie Thompson (not a mistake) 4.Harry Coates: Born April 1870 Cardon, PA who married Mary J. (unknown maiden n.) 5.Charles T. Coates: Born 2/25/1871 Cardon, PA who married Vinnie Harlow 6.Isaac Coates: Born Jan. 1873 Cardon, PA who married Della Pace(?) 7.John Taylor Coates: Born May 1877 Shawnee, OH married to Ethel Smith 8.Thomas G. Coates: Born Sept. 1881 Shawnee, OH married to Abbie (unknown maiden n.) 9.Ellen Coates: Born April 1883 in Shawnee, OH I would like to offer more information to anyone who is researching this line of Coates. I have pages and pages of information with research data and a text tree. Donna Mollaun <[email protected]>
FYI...thanks Joe.... Char ----Original Message Follows---- From: "J.Coates" <[email protected]> To: "Charlotte Coats Siercks" <[email protected]> Subject: bits & pieces Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:54:53 -0400 The following items were extracted from the USGenWeb Archives: 1. Augusta County,, Va. Court records show Elizabeth Coats, orphan of Joshua Coats, to be bound to William Carruthers 8/16/1774. p.180. 2. Oglethorpe County, Ga. 1840 Census show Jesse J. Coats, age 62, file 31. 3. Barren County, Ky. 1810 Census show George Coats, John Coats, Thomas Coats, Walter Coats and William Coats. 4. Chester, Pa. 1790 Head of Household Census shows Moses Coats and Thomas Coats. 5. Pike County, Ga. Marriages 1781-1857 show the following: Elizabeth Coats married Nathaniel Maples 1848; Mary Ann Coats married Charles Sealey 1850; Margaret Ann Coates married Nathaniel Lewis 1851; Francis Coats married George D. Cook 1857; W.J. Coats married Mary P. Thornton 1857. 6. Morgan County, Ga. 1824 Tax List shows James Coats. 7. Gloucester County, Va. 1880 Census shows: Alice Coates Charles Coates George Coates Lucy Coates Calhoun Coats Carry Maude Coats Charles B. Coats Decatur Clyde Coats Fanny Coats Florida Bell Coats India Coats Georgia Ellen Coats George Coats John R. Coats John Walter Coats Kindall Coats Lucy Coats Maggie Lee Coats Margaret Coats Mary Susan Coats Missouri Coats Nancy Coats Robert Coats Sallie Coats Walter Lee Coats William Coats William Dudley Coats. 8. Pike County, Ga. 1860 Census shows: Wilson Coats, p.11 9. Thomas County, Ga. Marriages 1851-1939 show: William G. Coats married Addie McLendon 7/7/1890; Algernon A. Coats married Lula N. Wheeler 2/16/1902; W.J. Coats married Iradella Pippin 8/27/1902; W.T. Coats married I.R. Wheeler 8/29/1902. 10. Morgan County, Ga. 1823 Tax List shows James Coats. 11. 1734 Philadelphia County, Pa. landowners show: Nicholas Coats, Thomas Coats, William Coats. 12. Warren County, Tn. 1840 Census show: Joesph Coats & James Coats. 13. Henry County, In. 1840 Census shows: George Coats. 14.Sussex County, N.J. 1850 Census shows: Calvin C. Coats, Jacob Coats, James Coats, Joseph Coats and William Coats. 15. Jasper County, Ga. Marriages 1821-1841show the following: John Coats married Lydia Pryor 8/11/1825; Wilson Coats married Susan Pryor 12/?/1830; Margaret Coats married W.M. Price 1/8/1832. 16. 1783 Philadelphia Military Muster Rolls show as follows: William Coates, Lt. Col. in the following units: 5th Co. 7th Bat. 1787 8th Co. 7th Bat 1788 6th Co. 7th Bat 1788 2nd Co. 7th Bat 1789 3rd Co. 7th Bat 1789. 17. Tuscaloosa, Al. Marriages 1825 show: Daniel P. Coats married Nancy Neal 2/17/1825; Richard P. Coats married Elinor Leopard 2/3/1825. 18. Philadelphia,Pa. Abstract of Wills 1777-1781 show: Susannah Coates, N. Liberties, City of Philadelphia; 5/10/1781, R 414. 19. Coweta County, Ga. Marriages 1827-1849 show: Marshall Coats married Sarah Endley 11/14/1833. 20. Halifax County, Va. Marriages show: Polly Coates married Richard Coates 6/9/1794; Sarah Coates married Stephen Huddleston 12/23/1793; Milley Coates married Robert Stanfield 5/15/1788; N. Coats married Champness Seamore 1/12/1791. 21. Talbot County, Ga. 1850 Census shows: Hilda Coats- F age 30 John- age 16 laborer Elias- age 12 Nancy- age 10 Sheppard- age 8 Frances- F age 6 Mary Coats age 26. ___________________ thasallfernow-grampajoec
Sandy, I have no information on your Coats. I've copied the Coats surname list which has dozen's of subscribers. Lister's, if you can help Sandy, don't hit reply because it will come back to me. Instead, use: [email protected] Curt Rowe _____ From: s hoard [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 11:12 AM Subject: AmColAn Website Query Hello, I found you here: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~amcolan/ My Charles COATS originated in Kershaw Co., SC. Charles married Martha sometime while they were in South Carolina. They moved from Kershaw Co., SC to York Co., SC between 1838 and 1844. About 1857 or so, the family moved to Shelby Co., AL. Charles COATS, b. May 11 1811 on gravestone, or about 1803 on census records. Martha "Patsy" ........possibly BARNES.....b. Dec 7 1825 on gravestone, or about 1818 on census records. Do you happen to know anything about the Charles COATS family when they lived in South Carolina? Here is a brief timeline that I have of my Charles COATS: 1811 - Kershaw Co., SC (birth of Charles Coats) 1838 - Kershaw Co., SC (birth of James Coats) 1845 - York Co., SC (birth of Margaret Coats) 1850 - York Co., SC (Census) Here is a transcript of a census record: 1850 York Dist., SC Census Free Inhabitants in York in the County of York State of South Carolina enumerated by me, on the 2 day of Aug 1850. ?? Ass't Marshal. 169 Taken Aug 2, 1850 line 6 88 - 88 - Charles Coats - 47 - M - Labourer - Kershaw Martha " - 32 - F - York James " - 12 - M - Kershaw Margaret " - 6 - F - York Mary J. " - 2 - F - York Thank you kindly for any help that you may offer. Sandy Michigan
Stella, I am looking for a Francis Coates around that era, but in the Wash, DC, area. Do you know any more about him? -June
Hello, I have a picture of Jemima Coats if anyone is interested in seeing if she looks like any of your ancestors. Thank You Mary
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In New Bern National Cemetery, Craven Co NC there is a : Francis Coates d. 09/06/1864 M12 NY Cav. PLOT 801 . Stella
I think I've found about all I'm going to find for the moment for John Russell Coats and his descendents and Lemuel Allen Coats and his descendents. They were sons of Wilson Coats who was the son of Rev. William Coats. Thanks to Frances Edmonston and Charlotte, I've also added a number of pictures. The information is extensive so I'm not going to list it here. Please visit http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~amcolan/Coats/coats.html and start in Generation Four. Clicking on the first set of pictures will take you to additional ones. The destination pages contain a lot of picture so will take awhile to download on a slow connection. I hope someone finds the information useful. Good hunting, Curt Rowe