The Bateson Family Tree

The Bateson family probably originated in Windhill, a village near the confluence of the River Aire and Bradford Beck in Calverley Parish in West Yorkshire.

The earliest documented reference is for Joseph Bateson, an innovative woollen manufacturer born around 1768.
Some of his descendants went to America, to Australia and to Canada but little is known of these branches.
One was working on the Channel coast of southern England and met a woman whose family came from Perthshire.
They went north to Glasgow and were spliced into stock from the Atholl Stewarts and Hamiltons of Dumfriesshire.

The life histories of these families over the last 250 years or so are recorded in some detail on these pages.
The links on the left give access to the family trees (PAF files) of each branch. Major branches also contain a Births, Marriages and Deaths database.
There are also transcriptions and scans of wills, testaments, gravestones, church records and property documents.
Some historical and geographical background material has also been appended.

There are gaps in each family history as well as likely errors of transcription and conjecture. Assistance with any of these would be greatly appreciated.

The authors would be pleased to receive an acknowledgement from any who find these pages useful.

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