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From: "Caroline Gurney" <>
Subject: Re: Keats of Newfoundland
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 01:19:23 -0000


Hi Thomas,

Thank you for this extra information about the Newfoundland KEATS. I have
one Sarah CATES in my tree, but she was baptised on 8 Feb 1707 - so too old
to be the mother of your Job.

Just shows how variable spellings could be in the days before mass education
& how careful we have to be in checking every spelling variant. CATES &
KEATS are a long way apart in any surname list - easy to miss a whole bunch
of ancestors that way.

Caroline Gurney
Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK

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