Oldham
Gates
Jr
Born in Annapolis, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, British Colonial America
Ancestors 
Son of Oldham Gates
and Thankful (Adams) Gates
Brother of
Mehitable (Gates) Clayes [half], Susannah Gates [half], Ruth Gates [half], Jonas Towbridge Gates [half], Dorothy (Gates) Whitman [half], John Gates [half], James Gates [half], Thankful (Gates) Crocker, Mary (Gates) Brown, Hannah (Gates) Fales, Amos Gates and Samuel Gates
Husband of
Rachel (Stronach) Gates
— married
13 Jan 1806 in Nova Scotia
Husband of
Eleanor (Slocum) Gates
— married
13 Jan 1814 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died
at about age 85
in Middleton, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, British Colonial America
Profile last modified
| Created 13 May 2012
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Biography
Oldham Gates Jr. (1765-1851), son of Capt. Oldham Gates Sr. (1716-1798) and Thankful Adams (1734-?), was a farmer and married twice.
He married his first wife, Rachel Stronach, around 1806, who died before 1814, and his second wife was Eleanor Slocum, aka Slocomb.
At the time of the 1838 Census, Wilmot contained 541 families. The total population was 3,358. The township of Wilmot was 16 miles in length and about 5 1/2 miles in width between the Annapolis River and the Bay of Fundy. There was also the District of Nictaux, part of Annapolis Township, on the south side of the river, containing 106 square miles. The area contains 125 miles of road.
Sources
Research: Both Oldham Gates Sr & Oldham Gates Jr are recorded in the 1791 Wilmott, Annapolis County Poll Tax Records.
- Nova Scotia Archives:
1791 Poll Tax Oldom Gates Jr. Wilmot, Annapolis County-1791 Reference no.: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 vol. 444 no 37. [1]
1792 Poll Tax Oldham Gates Wilmot, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia Commissioner of Public Records, Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 vol. 444 no. 59. [2]
1794 Poll Tax Oldham Gates Wilmot, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia Commissioner of Public Records, Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 vol. 444 1/2 no. 55. [3]
- Nova Scotia Census:
1827 Census Wilmot, Annapolis County- Farmer-Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 vol. no. 446. Males 2 Females 4 Total 6. [4]
1827 Census Wilmot, Annapolis County-Farmer-Religion Baptist- Males 5 Females 5 Births 1 Total 10.
1838 Census Wilmot, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia. Male under 6 -1/Female under 6-0/Male under 14-1/Female under 14-1/Male above 14-2/Female above 14-2/Total 9. Oldham & Eleanor Gates-Farmer-Commissioner of Public Records, Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 vol.449 no.17.[5]
- Find A Grave. [6]
- Stronach Saga [7]
- Y-DNA testing.
Paternal lineage confirmed by Family Tree DNA Big-Y700 test of Gates-5485 matching and grandson of , with private variants 4472653T & 17244266A on this line.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Oldham by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Oldham by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Barry Gates
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 700 markers, haplogroup I-BY189611, FTDNA kit #B750202, MitoYDNA ID T18242 [compare]
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~1.56%
~3.12%
Susan Martin :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA
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~1.56%
Barry Gates :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch HG9066800 [compare], Ancestry member BarryGates1
-
~0.78%
Leland Surette :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #157997
+
Autosomal DNA Test
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~0.78%
Irene (Long) Cole :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch a519778 [compare]
-
~0.39%
Donald Harvey :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A538205 [compare], Ancestry member DonaldHarvey38
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~0.39%
Carol Sullivan :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A417170 [compare], Ancestry member CarolSullivan17
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~0.39%
Tina Ward :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch YG6516884 [compare], Ancestry member Kortina
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~0.39%
Debbie Shafner :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
Gary Cole :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A456820 [compare], Ancestry member GC
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~0.39%
Robert Fletcher :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
William Harvey :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T548420 [compare], FTDNA kit #19310
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~0.39%
Barbara (House) Sefried :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T459494 [compare], FTDNA kit #48651
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~0.39%
Barbara Ricker :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #672561
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~0.39%
Robert Hammond :
MyHeritage DNA
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