Matthew Bates
The name Matthew Bates is the first name on the monument.
The monument is in St Nicholas church burial ground, Gosforth, Northumberland, England.
There are 1392 other graves within this cemetery that are listed within the GPR database.
Matthew Bates was buried in 1815. The actual date of death is not currently recorded on the GPR database but it may be on the grave monument photograph.
Matthew Bates age is given as 75.
Matthew Bates calculated year of birth is 1740.
Matthew Bates is listed on the GPR grave numbered 741264.
Matthew Bates is listed as the first name on monument on the grave monument.
Matthew Bates has the record number 1533384 within the GPR person name database table.
The record was added to the GPR on 25 October 2018
There is one image available for the monument listing Matthew Bates (see grave detail page).
The follow note is stored against Matthew Bates record:
Matthew Bates of Kenton. Matthew Bates died in 1845 - the gravestone has deteriorated since I last saw it in the 1980s and '1815' should read '1845'. He was born in Eltringham, in Ovingham parish, in 1773 and baptised there on 22 July. His parents were John Bates and Ann (Hartgrove). He was a coal-miner and moved to Kenton in about 1800, having married Catherine Parker in Ovingham in 1795. He was well known and respected as a grower of garden flowers, even evolving his own varieties, and winning prizes at local flower-shows.