Notes:

He was given the age of 59 in his burial record estimating his birthdate at about 1727. This might be in error as that would make him only 11 when his son William was born.

Family/Spouse: Joane. Joane died in Aug 1768 in Goathurst, Somerset, England; was buried on 21 Aug 1768 in St. Edward, Goathurst, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William COATE was born about 1737 in Of Goathurst, Somerset, England; was buried on 15 Apr 1792 in Goathurst, Somerset, England.
2. Thomas COATE was born in 1738 in Goathurst, Somerset, England; was christened on 4 Mar 1738 in Goathurst, Somerset, England; and died.

Notes:

It is theory on Gary W. Coats part that Thomas came to America and lived in Bucks Co., Pennsylvania. If so he could be the Thomas married to Sarah Ann who ended up in SC and is the ancestor of Gary W. Coats of Portland, Oregon. The death of a Thomas is listed in the Bristol M.M. records but it might not belong to the Thomas who is the son of William and Deborah Powell Coats. There are also death dates recorded in the Church of England records for Thomas Coate in 1734 in Goathurst, Somerset, England. If this belongs to him than he was only a Quaker during his childhood. He is of the correct age and place to be the father of William of Goathurst.

Thomas married Hester before 1723. Hester was born before 1715; died in Jan 1745 in Curry Rivel, Somerset, England; was buried on 23 Jan 1745 in St. Andrew, Curry Rivel Parish, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He is the William Coate of Greinton who died on Jan. 21, 1747/8 as stated in Parker's Papers. (Collins BK.) and in Park's book on Marmaduke Coate. He is listed as William Peter Coate in Odessa Collins book the same way he is listed in the "Old Coats Genealogy." He is one of the persons in that genealogy that is verified in the first hand documents I've found. (C-1665, 1670) After his marriage to Deborah, he moved to her hometown of Greinton which was about ten miles from where he grew up in Hambridge.

He was an active Quaker and was persecuted for not paying tythes in 1702, 1703, 1704, 1712 and 1717. This involved imprisonment in the years 1702, 1705 and 1713. (Besse's Sufferings)

His children were all born in the Middle Division of Quaker Somerset Quarterly Meeting records. At least one of his children is believed to have moved to the American colonies, William. Most of his other children are mentioned in the following will in 1733 in Glastonbury, Somerset Co., England."58/1/ 6/1734 Probate of will (1733) of William Blackmore of Glastonbury, yeoman, devising two commons allotted in Common Moor, Glastonbury to kinsman Samuel Blackmore of Glastonbury, 2a at Edmunds Hill, Glastonbury to sister-in-law Hester Blackmore of Glastonbury for life then to Sarah Newman and 5a at West Backwere, messuage in High St., messuage in Butt Town and other estate to son-in-law John Clothier, his executor. Cash legacies to the children of his brother James decd., by his last wife and son William by a former wife, to his sister Susannah Cockram and her children, to his sister Jane White and her children, the four younger sons of his sister Ann Morse decd., the two daughters of his sister Elizabeth Hensle, the daughter of John Hensle the younger of Dulverton decd., to his sister Dorothy, Elizabeth daughter of John Witherill of Ilminster, Jane Walker and Ann Stowey of Glastonbury, servant Thomas Doble, Mary Hensle of Glastonbury, George Fulson, John Hucker and Henry Dyer of Glastonbury, John and Marmaduke sons of William Coate, silver spoons to Hannah, Rachel and Edith Coate, cash, furniture of parlour chamber and other furnishings to Joan Merriott of Glastonbury, cash, his bed and furnishings to maid Jane Scott and ? 20 to the Quakers for the poor of the county. Clothing to son-in-law John Clothier of Street. Proved 1734. (1 doc.)"http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/lists/ddlists/ddfs.txt

William married Deborah POWELL on 8 May 1702 in Middle Division M.M., Somerset, ENG. Deborah (daughter of Thomas POWELL) was born before 1685 in Of Greinton, Somerset, ENG; died on 5 Jun 1744 in Kingsbury M.M., Somerset, ENG. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was listed from Grienton and her husband from Curry Rivel when they married. She and her husband attended the Polden Hill Monthly Meeting where their births are recorded in the Middle Division Meeting records. This like other Quaker Meetings of the time were quite small. A Thomas and Elinor Powell had a son Thomas on Jun 14, 1663 recorded in this meeting that is the likely to be her father and grandparents from their ages, place of residence and religion. William Coate would have become Quaker by the time he married Deborah as their children's births were recorded shortly after they were born. She is listed as Deborah Coate, wife of William Coate, in her Quaker death record. Her name is misinterpreted as Jeberah in the index to England Quaker records.

Notes:

Although the Park book gives the lineage of Marmaduke Coate to be as chosen, an alternative parentage is in Professor Dornans notes. It states that both Marmaduke and John (who married Elizabeth Humphries) are the sons of John Coate of Curry Rivel who married Julian Stone of Martock on July 27, 1628. (C-995) A third alternative is in the United Ancestries Linked Pedigrees on the Automated Archives CD disk 100. According to it, Marmaduke Coate who married an Edith Satterwaite, was born at an estimate of 1643. His parents were John Peter Coate and Emily Jane Buckingham. (C-400)

CD-100 follows the old Coate's genealogy but trys to improve on it's date errors. In this line Marmaduke and Edith Satterthwait had: Archibald, Thomas, Henry, Sampson, Mary Jane, Ann and James (twins), John, Samuel, Sarah Jane, Hannah, Marmaduke, William Peter and Edith. (C-336) Son Marmaduke married Ann Pole. Son Thomas, b. 1641 moved to Ireland to avoid persecution. Thomas's son Moses, b. 1687, married Susannah Weldon, and moved to Pennsylvania founding Coatesville, Pennsylvania. We don't yet have any DNA evidence to confirm or deny this connection to the Moses/Susannah Weldon Coates line. (C-541) Thomas's son's James, b. 1679 and Moses, b. 1687 were threadmakers. This was possibly the beginning of the line related to the two brothers who founded the J & P. Coats Thread Company, James Coats, b. 1803 and Peter Coats, b. 1779. All of Thomas's children, the threadmakers and the founder of Coatesville might be cousins to the Marmaduke who married Ann Pole. (C-418)

Here is why I've chosen the theory I have as to his parentage. 1) This Marmaduke can't be the son of William who named his son Marmaduke and grandson Marmaduke in his 1658 will because of Marmaduke's newly found baptismal record. The baptisms in this family took place while the children were babies of 1 week to a couple months. 2) CD-100 has much 2nd hand sourcing and is full of errors on the Coate line. It said that he was the son of John Peter Coate and Emily Jane Buckingham. We've found NO proof of same. 3) I'm still not ruling out that he could be the son of John Coate married to Julian Stone. The name Julian however, is not carried down in the children's names, nor does it explain a "kinsman" connection between John and Marmaduke that is referred to in Quaker documents of the time. 4) The name of Henry (Marm's possible father) and Edith (his wife) are carried down in this line.

Marmaduke who married Edith was from Hambridge, Somersetshire, England. Though his wife's surname is often listed as Satterwaite or Fell, I believe he is the Marmaduke who married Edith Gilling in marriage records of the area. While his son Marmaduke was young sometime after 1674, he and Edith became "convinced on the truth" and raised their children as Quakers. (C-994)

Marmaduke was an honest, faithful Quaker who suffered over fifteen years in prison for his faith and lost most of his property by fines imposed for his religious beliefs. (C-614e) His prison experience is documented in the following Quaker records:1668: Marmaduke was imprisoned for withholding tithes.1676: "Marmaduke Coate of Hambridge, imprisoned in the 6th moneth 1670 upon an Attachment out of the Exchequer, upon Contempt, as charged, to the Suit of Robert Bambury Impropriator, for not paying Tythes." "Prisoners upon the Account of Truth in the county of Somerset at Ivelchester the 26th Day of the 11th Moneth, 1676."1669-1687: Quaker meetings were literally held at the Ilchester prison for most of this period. The minutes were taken inside this prison.1685: According to a Quaker petition, Marmaduke had been imprisoned for a total of 15 years, 7 months, and 23 days.

He was a prisoner at the time of the proclamation of general pardon by King James, when Friends were released by hundreds. (C-543c,614f)June 22 1686??: This date is very difficult to read in the original Kingsbury Episcopi Monthly Meeting records because the 22 could be an 11 and because someone in dark ink wrote over the original year with the number 7.

He couldn't have died in June of 1687 because his will was probated in April of 1687.1687: Marmaduke's will was proved at Taunton. He is listed as of Curry Rivel. He made bequests to sons Marmaduke and William; daughters Edith, Jane, Elizabeth, and Ann; and widow Edith, the executrice. Note that only one daughter named Jane is listed and we don't know which one this applies too. (It should be noted that only 2 of his daughters, Hannah (died previously) and Anne and son William had their birth records recorded after the fact in the Mid-Somerset Quarterly Meeting records.)

He and his wife Edith, were listed "of Hambrige" when their daughter's, Jane, married in 1686 and Elizabeth, married in 1693. Naturally he was listed as deceased in this 1693 marriage. This is important to note as consistently, he is listed as the Marmaduke "of Hambridge" in the records, meaning that there was only one adult Marmaduke living in Hambridge at the time - even at his death in 1687/1689.

His birthdate has been in question. I've also seen it listed as March 8, 1624 occurring in River, co. Kent, England on a site by Steven T. Ernst at ancestry.com. Please note that there were probably two other marriages for Marmaduke in the Parish of Curry Rivel. A Marmaduke married Ann Lock on June 24, 1651. He also married Joan Woodbourne, d.of John Woodbourne on June 25, 1655. The other possibility is that there were at least two Marmadukes of similar age in Curry Rivel. I find this later idea the most unlikely as town clerks typically distinguished how they described a person if there was a duplication of names in their parish. Also, Marmaduke's daughters names of Ann and Jane would indicate they are all wives of one Marmaduke. Close by in North Petherton, Somersetshire there was another Marmaduke Coat who married Sarah Strong of Curry-Revell on March 9, 1702. (C-995)

I have found a Thomas Coate, son of Marmaduke who was christened in Curry Rivel on Feb. 11, 1659/1660 that could apply to any of these. Marmaduke's death date is listed as 4m 22d 1687 (transcribed as Jun 22,1687 in the Quaker dating system) in the Somerset Quarterly Meeting records for England, but this does not coincide with the probate of his estate which was Apr 4, 1687. Quaker records were often written down years after the fact and are known to have errors. He is listed as Marmaduke Coate of Hambridge in this record.

Marmaduke married Edith GILLING on 13 Sep 1658 in Mark Parish, Curry Rivel, Somerset, ENG. Edith was born before 1642 in Of Somerset, England; died on 24 Dec 1718 in Hambridge, Somersetshire, ENG. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Edith's maiden name is listed as a Fell, Satterwaite or Maxwelton in 2nd hand sources. After exhaustive years of research, I have reached a different conclusion. I theorize that she is Edith Gilling who is the only listed marriage record of an Edith to a Marmaduke Coate of Hambridge in the Parish of Curry Rivel, Somerset, England. The supporting evidence for this theory is: 1) Hambrige was a very small burg in the same Parish where Marmaduke was born in 1634. 2) It has been my experience that the clerks in the courts knew everyone in these small towns. They would describe the person they were referring to in such a way as to distingish them from anyone else of the same name. (Ex. Little John, Big John, Georgia John, John of Edgefield, etc.) In this case, the only adult male of that name who lived in Hambridge called Marmaduke is listed as Marmaduke of Hambridge in multiple court records from Marmaduke's marriage to his death.

A transcription of their marriage record follows: "Groom Marmaduke COATE status - of Hambridge, - Bride Edith GILLING status - of the parish, - married on 13 SEP 1658 at parish Mark: " (Source: www.familyhistoryonline.com, from email by gccoles@aol.com). 3) Their marriage record of 1658 has likely thrown other researchers off because his Quaker obituary says he was born in 1652. It was submitted after his death at an elderly age.

These obituraries notoriously had poor birthdates and "facts" in them. His parents were not of the Quaker faith nor were Quaker records kept in this region until 1667. He was not of the Quaker faith until after his marriage. I suggest that Marmaduke Jr's birthdate was simply not known by his Quaker community. 4) None of the other surnames surmised to be Edith's, have any supporting evidence. In other words, no record has been found that lists a person named Edith of these other surnames in the Parish of Curry Rivel or nearby regions. Ex. Though Satterwaite is often listed, this is a surname from northern England at the time, nearly 500 miles away. Therefore, with an understanding of every record in the Parish of Curry Rivel, I suggest that the only likely conclusion is that Edith was Edith Gilling and that her son Marmaduke was born after 1658. (C-253c)

Edith is listed in Quaker records in Somerset after her marriage. On Nov. 15, 1683 fifteen persons were taken to prison from their meeting at Ilminster, Edith being among them. On Aug. 17, 1689 she and her son Marmaduke were again taken prisoner a couple years after her husband and his father, Marmaduke's death. According to Don Johnson's research, when Marmaduke died, Edith asked his brother's John's wife, Elizabeth to move in with her. Elizabeth had stayed behind in England when her husband moved to Pennsylvania due to poor health. She supposedly took up Edith's offer and both women lived in Marmaduke's homestead till the end of their days barring when Edith was in prison. (C-995)

Notes:

He or is father died Sep. 17, 1702 of Greinton according to Polden M.M. records.