Records of William Meates on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of William Meates 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 William Meates and the Meates Family Tree

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Meates 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 below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. 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 Meates family tree.

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Meates Genealogy Databases

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Meates Forums

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Miscellaneous Meates Databases

Study the Ellis Island Database for information on William Meates. 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 William Meates

William Meates

William Percival Meates (1875–1910) was an English professional footballer who made 14 appearances in the Football League playing for Small Heath. He played as a goalkeeper.

Meates was born in Bournemouth, which was then in Hampshire. He began his football career with Eastbourne before joining Small Heath in 1895. He took over from Jim Roach as first-team goalkeeper in the middle of the 1895–96 season after the club had suffered some heavy defeats. Meates made his debut on 3 February 1896 in a 3–0 defeat at Everton, and retained the starting place for the remainder of the season, but failed to stop the rot sufficiently for Small Heath to avoid relegation via the test match system. He played only twice the next season, having surrendered the goalkeeper's jersey to Ernest Pointer, and left for Warmley of the Southern League in 1897. The following year he had an unsuccessful trial with Nottingham Forest.

Source: William Meates, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Meates

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