Hello - New here

[Dayan]

Hi from Australia.
This is how my family tree on ancestry looks. Unsure if it’s correct, only just started researching further. Have a friend helping me with my tree. Looking for information if this is correct and what my ancestors did as jobs , children, relatives, pics ect
I’m following my family tree of the Oates family.
Mother Janice Oates (is still living), mum is now 83
Reginald Oates (deceased) 1901-1981 - married Agnes Roberts (welsh) no information at all on my tree after Agnes.
Richard Oates 1871-1934 married Mary Binney
Thomas Oates 1823 Married Jane Thomas
Thomas Oates 1798 married Mary Grenfell
Hugh Oates 1774 Married Married Mary Cock
Martin Oates 1751 Married Amy Leggoe
Hugh Oates 1715 Married Jane Lawry
Richard Oates 1682 Married Jane Mason
Richard Oates 1657 Married prudence Adams
Richard Oates 1630 Married
John Oates 1605 Married Mary Cock
Thomas Oates 1568 Married Margaret Williams

[Cornish Terrier]

Hello and Welcom to Penwith Genealogy Dayan.

I have done bits and pieces of work on various parts of the variuos Oats/Oates families but not in any extensive way that would include the direct line you have outlined.

My first suggestion to you is to use the information you have found on Ancestry as a 'guide' only. Input to Ancestry family trees is, in my opinion, notorious for 'follow the leader' information whereby one person states a 'fact' and multitudes of others treat that 'fact' as gospel and then copy it to their own information. Many times these 'facts' are easily proven to be wrong which then affects a complete line of descent.

My best advice to you as I said is to use this information as a guide only and to, basically, start from scratch yourself. Compile information that you know and can prove to be true and accurate about your own immediate family for as far back as you can. Often this might only be to grandparents or possibly great-grandparents but that is an excellent starting point with the amount of information that can be found nowadays.

If you can accurately determine when your family first came to Australia and the identities of those family members then it becomes easier to identify the next generation in the line. Research each generation to ascertain as much accurate information as possible then move to the previous generation and so on.

In Cornwall you will find that many families used the same or similar names when naming children. Many at least into the 19th Century also used some form of naming pattern where children were named after grandparents, parents, siblings etc. but that was not always the case.

You may also find multiple families where the parents have the same names and those families also use similar names for their children. For example - two families in the same or nearby Parishes where the parents are William and Ann Oates. Both fathers might be labourers and both families might be using the same names for their children. When that happens it can take quite some time to sort things out.

There are a number of members here who will be able to help you along the way so gather your known and accurate information and then work back to the family who left Cornwall. Once we have that Cornwall to Australia link we can work back through the Census records along with the information from Parishes Registers to help track your family backwards.

There is no specific area for the Oats/Oates families on the forum but once you identify which Parish your family was from we can conduct all discussion under the banner of that Parish. There is a specific section for each of the Parishes in West Penwith.

So gather together what you can about that first family to leave Cornwall then post a query and we can start to help. The conversation can then be moved to an appropariate area of the forum.

CT

[white]

My name is Roy White
Contact me direct at
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I can help a great deal with the Oats family

[zibetha]

Oh maybe, Roy, My last post did not go through. Thank you so much for sharing your research!

Your cousin,

Zib