John Bates
Events
Date of Baptism: 26 October 1656.
Place of Baptism: Standish, Gloucestershire.
The baptism is recorded in the parish register.
Date of Burial: 21 October 1700.
Place of Burial: Painswick, Gloucestershire.
The burial is recorded in the bishop's transcripts to the parish registers.
Relationships
Father: John Bates.
Mother: Elizabeth.
See the Commentary section.
Spouse: Ruth Wheeler. Married 19 February 1687/88 in Painswick.
The marriage is recorded in the parish register.
Spouse: Elizabeth King. Married 27 February 1692 in Painswick.
The marriage is recorded in the parish register.
Children (by Ruth):
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
William (baptized 26 November 1690 in Painswick - buried 23 December 1690)
Children (by Elizabeth):
John Bates (baptized 18 May 1694 in Painswick) married Joan Hornet 22 September 1715 in Painswick.
Elizabeth Bates (baptized 12 February 1696/97 in Painswick) probably married Anselme Ridler 2 December 1718 in Painswick.
Hannah Bates (baptized 10 March 1701 in Painswick)
Evidence
from the Standish parish registers:
John the Sonne of John Bates and of Elizabeth his wife was Baptised the 26th of October [1656]
from the Painswick parish register:
[Weddings]
1687/88:
John Bates & Ruth Wheeler Febr: the 19th
[Baptisms]
1690:
William the son of John Bates and Ruth his wife Novemb: 26.
[Weddings]
1692/23:
John Bates and Elizabeth King the same day [Febr: 27]
[Baptisms]
1694:
John the Son of John Bates and Eliza: his wife Baptised May 18th
[Baptisms]
1696/97:
Elizabeth the daughter of John and Elizabeth Bates February 12th
[Baptisms]
1701, March:
10. Hannah Daughter of John Bates deceased Labourer
from the bishop's transcripts to the Painswick parish register:
[Burials]
October 21 John Bates [1700]
Commentary
John’s parentage:
John was married in Painswick in 1687/8 and 1692, had children baptized there, and was buried there. The Standish parish register records the baptism of John the son of John and Elizabeth Bates in 1656. Standish is about 6 miles from Painswick, but there is additional evidence that this is the correct baptism. John and Elizabeth had a son Samuel baptized in 1658/9 in Standish, and this Samuel also turns up in Painswick in the 1690s (There are no other Samuel Bates in the indexes in the period.) In his 1689 will, John Bates of Standish, husbandman, names his two sons John and Samuel, leaving them land in Highnam, which is also some distance from Standish.
References
Painswick Parish registers, Gloucestershire Archives; Gloucester, England; Reference Numbers: P163 IN 1/3 (digital images on Ancestry.com accessed 14 February 2015).
Will of John Bates of Standish. Proved 1689 in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Gloucester. Digital images accessed 19 December 2020.