----Original Message Follows---- From: "KATE WORRELL" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: Coates Family in PA/NJ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 17:30:58 -0500 I came across your website in a search for ancestors. I am descended from a Thomas L. Coates who was born in 1800 and married Deborah C. Johnston. They had a son named William, named after his father's brother. And, a daughter named Laura T. Coates. In William Coates' journal, son of Thomas and Deborah, he states that his father was from a rich and aristocratic family in Pennsylvania, but, through reverses in business, became poor. His mother was of a southern family that came north before the revolution. William states that he was born on Dec. 5, 1859 in Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania at the Old Shipyard near Hollow Creek on the north branch of the Delaware river. Laura T. Coates was born in 1844 and married William Armour Worrell of Burlington, New Jersey. Laura and William are my gggrand-parents. I have not been able to find any information about this line. I just thought that you might be interested, as you have quite an extensive list of Coates. Sincerely, Tom Worrell