When Was Stephen Gates Born? 1634? -1707

Question

Stephen Gates, according to Wikitree, was born in about 1640 in Hingham, Massachusetts Bay, but he is shown as part of the PGM project. The NEHGS (Vital Records from The NEHGS Register (Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.)  https://www.americanancestors.org/DB522/i/14267/163/264741357 Vol 120 (1966): 163) shows that he was the son of Stephen Gates, probably born in co. Norfolk, England, in about 1634.  He married Sarah Woodward of Watertown about 1664. He deposed in 1678, saying he was 44 years old, and in 1691, saying he was 57 years old.

His father came to New England in 1638, so he couldn't have been born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and the two depositions confirm that he was born about 1634.

Can we change the date and location of his birth?

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Stephen Gates

mentioned in the record of Daniel Gates

Name	Stephen Gates
gender	Male
Wife	Sarah
Son	Daniel Gates

Other information in the record of Daniel Gates

from Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records

Name	Daniel Gates
Event Type	Birth
Event Date	25 Apr 1685
Event Place	Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Gender	Male
Father's Name	Stephen Gates
Mother's Name	Sarah

View the original document. The original may contain more information than was indexed.

Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001

Reference ID	p 118
GS Film Number	892249
Digital Folder Number	004198966
Image Number	00225

Citing this Record

"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC99-TX5 : 13 July 2016), Stephen Gates in entry for Daniel Gates, 25 Apr 1685; citing Birth, Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 892,249.

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Daniel Gates born 1685 is his youngest child.

Answer 1

Text that I have for him in my genealogy software, cut and pasted from Torrey's series of articles about the family states (omitting the list of children):

Stephen Gates(2), born probably in county Norfolk England about 1634. Died in Stow, Mass., 9 July 1707. Married, probably about 1664, Sarah Woodward of Watertown, Mass. (born 1642/3, died after 15 September 1707). He came to New England with his parents in 1638. After he came of age he resided in Lancaster, Cambridge, Boston, Marlborough, and Stow, Massachusetts.

Source: Clarence Almon Torrey, "Stephen Gates of Hingham, Lancaster, and Cambridge, Mass., and Some of his Descendants," in New. Eng. Hist. Gen. Register, Boston, MA: NEHGS: 120 (1966):161-70, 260-72; 121 (1967):45-54, 217-23, 250-60

Note: His mother's name was Anne Neave, not Anne Veare. (See his father's profile for the source of this.)

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So, heck yes -- the birth data on that profiles should be corrected!

PS - The four-generation sequence of men named Stephen Gates was one of the first ancestral lines I investigated when I got engaged with the subject of genealogy. I guess I stayed away from these profiles after I joined WikiTree because the profiles had little relation to the data in my files, and I was intimidated by the long lists of sources and long lists of profile managers on some of the profiles.

Answer 2

Stephen Gates, Jr

 

Birth:	1634, England
Death:	Jun. 9, 1707 Stow Middlesex County Massachusetts, USA
A son of Stephen & Anne (Veare) Gates. He married Sarah Woodward on April 18, 1662 at Stow, MA.     Family links:   Parents:   Stephen Gates (1597 - 1662)   Anne Veare Gates (1603 - 1683)    Spouse:   Sarah Woodward Gates (1642 - 1706)    Children:   Stephen Gates (1665 - 1732)*   Simon Gates (1667 - 1752)*   Isaac Gates (1673 - 1748)*   Rebekah Gates Gibson (1682 - 1754)*   Daniel Gates (1685 - 1759)*    Sibling:   Stephen Gates (____ - 1702)**   Stephen Gates (1634 - 1707)   *Calculated relationship **Half-sibling
Burial: Lower Village Cemetery  Stow Middlesex County Massachusetts, USA
Created by: Diana L. Brace Record added: Apr 16, 2009  Find A Grave Memorial# 35927529 Added by: Marilyn   Added by: Barrenlander   Added by: Barrenlander

Comments

Many with the Gates surname in the Lower Village Cemetery.

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Please rely on find a grave info with caution. Most fall into same category as unsourced family trees.

Answer 3

See also: Harrison, Edward J. The English Origins of Stephen Gate, 1638 Immigrant to Massachusetts.  NEHGR: Vol. 160: p. 14    (2006)

Briefly: Stephen bp in Hingham, England 1597; married Anne ''Veare'' (sic) in England in 1628; migrated in 1638 on the Diligent, which confirms if their child was born/bp in 1634 - he would also have been born in England and emigrated.  . 

https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image/?volumeId=11733&pageName=14&rId=143408334

The same author identifies Anne's  LNAB  as Neave in  : NEHGR: Vol 163 p. 134 (2009)

Answer 4

I believe this is in Baptism in Reymerston, not far from Hingham also two other children of Steven and Anna baptised there 

Norfolk : Reymerston : St Peter : Parish Register : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/5818bde5e93790eca3be939a : viewed 3 May 2022) baptism Steven Gates 10 Aug 1634

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That looks like good information -- particularly seeing (in a profile comment on this man's profile) that there is a record in the same parish for older sister Elizabeth that matches her other data, as well as a record for a child named Nathaniel who does not have a profile here.

 Could you please add the biographical info and the other record details to the text of the profile?

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Thank you, Ann Browning. I have added this information as a research note to Stephen's profile, attributed as your contribution. --Gene

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Thanks Gene,

I only ran across this one as I’m transcribing john Atdam’s Will in he has Neave relations so was looking for Norfolk Neave family. Now whether there is a connection I don’t know I’m trying to find out.

Ann

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Thank you!