Re: Bates family from Norfolk England
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In reply to:
Bates family from Norfolk England
12/16/00
No detail, just a family story. Sarah Jane Bates, from England, fell in love with the groom, John Garrity, and they ran off to the US. Married & had my grandfather, James Edwin (Garrity?) on Jan. 15 1898. Sarah and John were killed around 1903, and James E. was adopted in Trumbull County, OH, by Allen & Annie Hamer. At some point he became James E. Bates, taking his mother's maiden name. Named his 2 sons William and James E. (my dad). Perhaps we're a branch of your Bates family.