Ancestry of
Bill Gates

Founder of Microsoft

Thomas Gates

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Bill Gates — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 256 
  • Father:
  • Stephen Gates 
  • Mother:
  • Ann Neave   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 3 May 1646 
  • Christening Location:
  • Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 10 Aug 1726 
  • Death Location:
  • Preston, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Freeman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Jul 1670 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Joseph Gates

  Deborah Gates

  Caleb Gates (Ahnentafel No:128 )

• Sources for Thomas Gates

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1966, Vol. 120, pp. 163-165.
  • ² Bollenbach, Willard M., Jr., The New England Ancestry of Alice Everett Johnson 1899-1986, Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, Inc. (2003), 148-149.
  • ³ Gates, Charles Otis, Stephen Gates of Hingham and Lancaster, Massachusetts, and His Descendants, New York: Willis McDonald and Co., Publishers (1898), 10, 12-13.
  • ⁴ Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Increasings, 2nd Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1997), 108.
  • ⁵ Wakefield, Robert S. and Russell L. Warner, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 14, Family of Myles Standish, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2007), 17.

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