Hi Beverley, I have some Bates from the Kingsclere Woodlands area that Married in to the Hutchins family, whether they link to yours I don't know but they also link up with a Matthews line but not until around 1879 Please feel free to have a look at my website and you will also find a link to John Lewis's Kingsclere site which is like a bible to most of us tracing Kingsclere names Bob Hutchins Email: [email protected] Website & Genealogy Database www.bobhutchins.me.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Beverley Smith" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 7:48 PM Subject: [King] New Member. Bates surname > Good Evening > I have been advised by a researcher that my Bates in Kintbury Berkshire > could have originated in the Kingsclere area. I have John Bates > (birthplace unknown) he was a wheelwright married a Betty Matthews (Father > also a wheelwright) from Hamstead Marshall this marriage took place 12th > January 1793 in Hamstead Marshall. We also have as a witness at a family > marriage a Sophia Bates(nothing else known about her) but the name Sophia > used from that time on in more than one branch of my family. > They had the following children Mary, John, Charles, Daniel, Sophia, > Hannah, Elizabeth. > If anyone is doing Bates I would be very interested. Both Daniel & Charles > Bates mixed up in the machine riots of 1831. > Thankyou > Beverley Smith > ---------------------------------------- >>From Kingsclere.If you get unsubscribed and did not ask to be >>unsubscribed, please contact List Admin. > ---------------------------------------- > Changing your Email address, > unsubscribe with your old address and Subscribe to the List with your new > email address. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.5.1/764 - Release Date: 17/04/2007 > 04:43 > >