Records of Albert Keates on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Albert Keates in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Albert Keates and the Keates Family History

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Keates Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Keates family tree.

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Keates Family Tree Databases

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Explore the Ellis Island Database for information on Albert Keates. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.

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Some Famous People called Albert Keates

Albert Keates

Albert Keates (14 July 1862 in Hanley, Staffordshire – 25 June 1949 in Sheffield) was a pipe organ builder based in Sheffield who flourished between 1889 and 1948.

He started his employment at John Stringer and Co in Hanley. Later he progressed to become head voicer at Brindley & Foster in Sheffield.

In 1885 he formed the partnership Lowe and Keates with Edwin Lowe, but this was short-lived, being dissolved on 8 October 1888, and in 1889 he formed his own business, based in a premises on Charlotte Road in Sheffield, which built some 90 new organs and also some restorations.

He was influenced by the German organ builder, Johann Friedrich Schulze, and adopted his style in the manufacture of Diapasons, which give Keates organs their distinctive tone.

The largest organ built by the company was in 1931 for Uppingham School, which had 44 stops and 3 manuals.

In 1950 the company was absorbed into Harris Organs in Birmingham.

Source: Albert Keates, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Keates

Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.

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