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Author Topic: GATES Family Rushden, Peterborough or thereabouts  (Read 7530 times)

Offline rancegal

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Re: Gates Family Rushden, Peterborough or thereabouts
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 19 July 06 08:05 BST (UK) »
To go back a bit, what is the connection with 'St John the Baptist Peterborough', if she was married etc in Rushden? I know P'boro is in Northants, but only technically. It was until comparatively recently the Soke of Peterborough, which was like a mini-county of its own, and it is really more like East Anglia. Within my lifetime, the C of E created a diocese of Brixworth (a very ancient church near Northampton) with its own bishop, to serve the west of the county.
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French: Blisworth,  and W. Northants

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Re: Gates Family Rushden, Peterborough or thereabouts
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 20 July 06 07:40 BST (UK) »
I only mentioned Peterborough because I had already looked at it, searching for the other part of this chain, the Cunworth/Conworths. There were certainly Gates in Peterborough, but the only connection I can find to Sarah is that her proctor when she lodged her renunciation re her husband's estate was one William Gates of Peterborough. It is likely that he was a family member, but I have nothing to support that.
Sorry if I mislead anyone.
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Alwynne
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