1624 The will of Marmaduke Coate, of Currey Rivell, was recorded. [1] [2]:
Will of Marmaduke Coate of Curry Revel dated 4th March 1607. He gave unto his son William Coate a legacy. He gave unto John Coate & Joane Coate, "my son's children", legacies. He gave unto Thomas Coate, his son, a legacy. He gave unto Henry Coate, his son, common of pasture in Bindiche together with common of Estones in the same Bindiche "to have and to hold to the said Henry Coate for and during the residue of the term of Four score years yet to come determinable upon the lives of William Coate, Thomas Coate and said Henry Coate. He gave to Rachel Coate his oldest daughter a legacy. He gave unto Mary Coate his daughter a legacy and gave the residue of his goods and chattels to his wife, Mary Coate, who is made his sole executrix. Will proved at Taunton, 1624.
1626 (1 Charles 1) An Inquisition post mortem was recorded for Marmaduke Coate of Somerset. The escheator's warrant recorded: "Warrant of the court of wards and liveries to the escheator of Somerset granting to William son of Marmaduke Coate deceased, formerly of Curry Rivel, yeoman, livery of his father's lands in Curry Rivel comprising a messuage, garden, orchard and 17½ a[cres] of land in Curry Rivel and common of pasture in Binditch and elsewhere (as specified)." [3] [4] [5] [6]
1631 The will of Marie Coate, widow of Currey Rivell, was recorded. [7] [8]:
Marie Coate of Curry Rivel in the County of Somerset, Widow by her will dated the 2nd November 1626, gave as follows: To her son Wtitiam Coate, 6d, To William Coate's 4 children, 6d, To her son Thomas Coate, 6d, To his 3 children, 4d, To her daughter Rachel German, 6d, To her 3 grand children, 4d, To John Woodborne's 3 children, 4d, To Henry Coate's 5 children, 6d, To Mary Woodborne, daughter of John Woodborne, one feather bed, one coverlet and pair of blankets. To John Woodborne the son of John Woodborne the bedstead which she lay on. To the same John her best Crock. To Joane Woodborne, daughter of John Woodborne, "the second brass pan". To her son Henry Coate, her pair of blankets and her best bolster. To the same Henry Coate her chest in the hall and after his decease to his son Marmaduke Coate, To her kinswoman, Alice Skinner, 1 Flock Bed. The rest of her goods after payment of debts she gave to John Woodborne and Henry Coate and appointed them executors. Witnesses: Roger Cole and William Sawble, Wm. Sawellysis X Mark.
A chart of the descendants of Marmaduke and Mary Coate, which includes the heirs named in the wills above, was given by Parks. [9]
Research Notes:
Mary Coate named kinswoman Alice Skinner in her will. The relationship between Mary Coate and Alice Skinner was not stated.
There were many people with the Coate name living in Somersetshire, England in the 1600s. Speculations about relationships among some of them were given by Parks. [10]
The name Coate is an ancient one in England:
"Anything before Marmaduke Coate and Mary Skinner of England comes from the Old Coates Genealogy. This was a genealogy that was done by a hired researcher in the early 1900's. It takes lines back before any first-hand records are available to support any of it. It has no sources. Although widely published (because it was the one used in the Coate Coppock Estate battle in the early 1900's) it is demonstrably in error when records can be found to check against it." [11]
1000 The original name Coate first appeared in the highlands of Scotland between 800 and 1000 A.D. as Coutts, Coats, and Coates. They were a sub-clan of the Farquharson Clan which branched from the clan Shaw in Scotland. [Photocopy] Map showing the Shaw Clan, of which the Coates were a sub-clan, north of the Grampians Mountains and east of Inverness.
1167 This clan was one of the most faithful supporters of the "House of Stewart". The first person of this name that has been found in England was in 1167, when Thomas de Cotes was knighted. He held land in the hamlet of Cotes in Staffordshire. The Coat of Arms of a Cock with the motto "Watchful and Bold" was adopted in the next century by this family.
Drayton and Curry Rivel are close to each other. It is plausible that the Coate families in these communities were related to each other.
1598 John Coate and Margaret Squar were married on October 6. [12]
1601 Marmaduke Coate and Philippe Buffine were married on October 6, at Drayton parish, Somersetshire, England. [13]
1612 The will of Phillip[a] West, of Burton, Drayton parish, Somersetshire, England, widow of Nicholas, was witnessed by Christopher Coate and Marmaduke Coate on November 20. [14]
1613 Mary Cotte and John Pulmore were married on June 7, at Drayton parish, Somersetshire, England. [15]
1616 Catherine Coate and William Burrowe were married on September 2, at Drayton parish, Somersetshire, England. [16]
1617 The existence of a will dated March 4, 1617 at Curry Rivel, Somerset, England is noted in a Coate file by Harriet Blythe. [17]
1633 Frances Coate and George Tailor were married on November 5, at Drayton parish, Somersetshire, England. [18]
1655 Marmaduke Coate and Joan Woodborne, daughter of John Woodborne, were married on June 25, at Drayton parish, Somersetshire, England. [19]
1665 John Coate and Mary Smith were married on November 1, in Somersetshire, England. [20]
[1] Edward Alexander Fry, ed., Calendar of Wills and Administrations in the Court of the Archdeacon of Taunton (Parts I and II, wills only), 1537-1799 (London: British Record Society 45, 1912), 152, part II, figure 12, 1624, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[2] Ernest S. Parks, M. H. Pemberton, and Gary W. Coats, The Ancestors and Descendants of Marmaduke Coate of South Carolina and Ohio (Gahanna, Ohio: Linda Coate Dudick, 1994), 140, [FHLBook], [FHL Library].
[3] UK Somerset Archives, quoted, [Somerset_Archives].
[4] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, C 142/625/29, Chancery, not seen, [UKNationalArchives].
[5] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, Ward and Liveries 7/74/20, not seen, [UKNationalArchives].
[6] Edward Alexander Fry, "On the Inquisitiones Post Mortem for Somerset from Henry VII to Charles I (1485-1649)," Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 47 (1901), 26, Catalogue lists both a Chancery entry and a Ward and Liveries entry, [HathiTrust].
[7] Edward Alexander Fry, ed., Calendar of Wills and Administrations in the Court of the Archdeacon of Taunton (Parts I and II, wills only), 1537-1799 (London: British Record Society 45, 1912), 152, part II, figure 36, 1631, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[8] Ernest S. Parks, M. H. Pemberton, and Gary W. Coats, The Ancestors and Descendants of Marmaduke Coate of South Carolina and Ohio (Gahanna, Ohio: Linda Coate Dudick, 1994), 140, [FHLBook], [FHL Library].
[9] Ernest S. Parks, M. H. Pemberton, and Gary W. Coats, The Ancestors and Descendants of Marmaduke Coate of South Carolina and Ohio (Gahanna, Ohio: Linda Coate Dudick, 1994), 28, [FHLBook], [FHL Library].
[10] Ernest S. Parks, M. H. Pemberton, and Gary W. Coats, The Ancestors and Descendants of Marmaduke Coate of South Carolina and Ohio (Gahanna, Ohio: Linda Coate Dudick, 1994), 26, [FHLBook], [FHL Library].
[11] Linda Coate Dudick website, no longer active.
[12] W. P. W. Phillimore and Douglas LL. Hayward, Somerset Parish Registers, Vol. 1 (1898), 4, [HathiTrust].
[13] W. P. W. Phillimore, D. M. Ross, Somerset parish registers. Marriages, Vol 3 (London: Phillimore's Parish Register Series, Vol. 23, 1901), 104, [HathiTrust].
[14] Almira Larkin White, Ancestry of John Barber White and of his descendants, [FHLCatalog].
[15] W. P. W. Phillimore, D. M. Ross, Somerset parish registers. Marriages, Vol 3 (London: Phillimore's Parish Register Series, Vol. 23, 1901), 105, [HathiTrust].
[16] W. P. W. Phillimore, D. M. Ross, Somerset parish registers. Marriages, Vol 3 (London: Phillimore's Parish Register Series, Vol. 23, 1901), 105, [HathiTrust].
[17] Garst Historical Museum, Research Center, Darke County, Ohio (https://www.garstmuseum.org/research-center), Coate file.
[18] W. P. W. Phillimore, D. M. Ross, Somerset parish registers. Marriages, Vol 3 (London: Phillimore's Parish Register Series, Vol. 23, 1901), 107, [HathiTrust].
[19] W. P. W. Phillimore, D. M. Ross, Somerset parish registers. Marriages, Vol 3 (London: Phillimore's Parish Register Series, Vol. 23, 1901), 124, [HathiTrust].
[20] W. P. W. Phillimore, H. W. Seager, Somerset parish registers. Marriages, Vol 9 (London: Phillimore's Parish Register Series, 1907), 58, [HathiTrust].