Notes on looking for sources - No sources found for William Leefe Oates in the time frame given. His birth, marriage and children would be before parish registers. Some Ancestry trees give his death as 23 July 1572 at Halifax but there is no burial near this date.[1]
The link below, BMD of William Oates, goes to a list of over 900 Ancestry family trees but none of them appear to have any relevant sources; the few sources given are hundreds of years later.
Middle names were not in use at this time and the names Leefe and Cannar would be virtually unknown in this area. As a couple, they would probably be unique, but there is a marriage of William Leefe Oates and Emily Cannar in Bradford, Yorkshire, in 1947, and this date of marriage is actually given on the few Ancestry trees with sources, even though it is 400 years after his lifespan. It does look as though someone has transported this couple back in time.
There is no baptism to connect this couple with son John as his birth was well before parish registers start. If no sources can be found for his correct parents, this couple could be detached and changed to the correct dates, as there are plenty of sources for them. Details of later William Leefe Oates - born 29 April 1917, married 1947, died 1972.[2][3][4][5]
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