Researching Duke Keats
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 657 people with the Keats surname? In that year Keats was ranked number 2923 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name Duke means "Leader" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Duke Keats on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Duke Keats and the Keats Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 623 people with the Keats surname in the UK? Keats is now ranked number 3452 for popularity in the UK. |
Keats Family Tree Databases
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Some Famous People called Duke Keats
Duke Keats
Gordon Blanchard "Duke, Iron Duke" Keats (March 1, 1895 – January 16, 1972) was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played for the Toronto Blueshirts of the National Hockey Association (NHA), Edmonton Eskimos of the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL) and the Boston Bruins, Detroit Cougars and Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was most famous for his time in the WCHL where he was named a First-Team All-Star by the league in each of its five seasons of existence. He won the league championship and appeared in the 1923 Stanley Cup Final with the Eskimos.
Duke Keats was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1958.
Source: Duke Keats, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Keats
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