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[roly]

Shaun...

I've been working on Charles Mate for over two years and - I think and hope - that I've found all the references that aren't entirely obscure (and this includes The Gazette, etc.).  I don't mean to be rude at all.  It's this W. Mate that I can't get a handle on.

roly.

[AJ100]

William & Ann MATE had a daughter Harriet baptised at St Leonard's, Deal in 1811.
Charles MATE married Hanna DEVESON in 1802 at St Leonard's.
Susanna MATE maried Joseph ROUSE in 1800.
Specific dates if you want them.

AJ

[roly]

Thanks, A J - the first glimpse I've had of a William Mate; and your notes 'fit' my general Mate enquiry.

roly

[ShaunJ]

There were a few people named William Mate living in that area at that time.

There is one in Dover in the 1841 census, aged 55.

There was another one who was buried at St Mary's Dover in 1833, aged 65.

There was a grocer in New Romney who died in 1812.

[roly]

Managed to find most refs. - from these pages - to Charles Mate but unable to raise the Kentish Chronicle obit of 1825.

Still nothing about the Deal theatre; nor about W. Mate...

roly

[roly]

After my last enquiries - began a search of newspapers and found that the Deal Theatre was converted into a 'manufactory' in 1816.  The only other reference to the theatre (that I found) was to 1806 (Ipswich Journal).

Thus, the search for clues about 'W. Mate' - and, indeed, Charles Mate, the subject of my original enquiry, have hardly progressed.

I do note that there were some newspaper references (from CB53) to W. Mate 'comic/comedian' but have not found any yet.  Likewise, I haven't been able to get hold of  the Kentish Chronicle obit. for Charles Mate in 1825.

If anyone can elaborate on these morsels I'd be grateful.

roly

[ShaunJ]

I haven't been able to get hold of  the Kentish Chronicle obit. for Charles Mate in 1825.

It's quite easy to find in the British Newspaper Archive or in FindMyPast. Just search for Charles Mate in September 1825. They have indexed the paper as the Kentish Weekly Post or Canterbury Journal