Kenneth Hansell Wates^{[1, 2]}

1875 - 1947  (72 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	Kenneth Hansell Wates  [3]
  Born	24 Feb 1875	Greenwich, Kent, England
  Gender	Male
  Registration	Between 1 Apr 1875 and 30 Jun 1875	Greenwich, Kent, England   [4]
  	Birth
  	Volume 1d, Page 852
  Buried	1947	Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  	Mount Pleasant Cemetery
  Died	18 Dec 1947	Canada
  Headstones	Submit Headstone Photo
  Person ID	I27140	The Williams Family Tree
  Last Modified	29 Jan 2020

  
  

  Father	Percy John Wates           b. 2 Apr 1833, London, England           d. 14 Mar 1903, Elmwood, Jamaica  (Age 69 years)
  Mother	Rose Bell Hansell           b. 30 Dec 1848, Norwich, Norfolk, England           d. 5 Jan 1921, Jamaica  (Age 72 years)
  Married	8 Aug 1870	Islington, London, England
  Family ID	F8207	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lillian Roberts           d. 1924
  Children	1. Marjorie Loveday Wates           b. 1905           d. 1957  (Age 52 years)   2. Gerald Charles Percy Wates           b. 1906           d. Yes, date unknown   3. Adelaide Wates           b. 1908           d. Yes, date unknown   4. Kenneth Stanway Wates           b. 25 Jan 1917, Rimbey, Alberta, Canada           d. 2 Jan 2009, St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada  (Age 91 years)   5. John Leonard Gostwick Wates           b. 1 Jul 1921           d. 2 Jul 1944  (Age 23 years)
  Last Modified	23 Jun 2008
  Family ID	F8214	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 24 Feb 1875 - Greenwich, Kent, England Registration - Birth - Between 1 Apr 1875 and 30 Jun 1875 - Greenwich, Kent, England Buried - 1947 - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Died - 18 Dec 1947 - Canada  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Headstones

  Memorial Stone for Kenneth Hansell Wates Courtesy of Alison Glass

  
  

• Notes

  School at Boxgrove School, Guildford.(Grandson John Russell Wates has 2 books presented to him as prizes)He went to Jamaica with bro. Leonard. Later after that failed he took land in Rimbey, Alberta, Canada, under the homesteading plan, where if you worked the land for 2 years, you were given the title to 160 acres. He was town clerk for Rimbey and for Lomond. He brought up his family on the farm but moved to Edmonton in about 1923 as his wife was dying of cancer. In Edmonton he ran a rooming house during the Great Depression. After his father died, his mother and sister moved to Rimbey, Alberta and took up an adjoining homestead. Ken doing the fieldwork and his sister doing the chores, a very tough assignment. He m. Lilian Roberts, d. CA 1924. 5 Chn. (additional information from John Russell Wates 1998)

  
  

• Reference

  The Williams Family Tree. "Kenneth Hansell Wates". The Williams Family Tree. https://williamsfamilytree.co.uk/tree/getperson.php?personID=I27140&tree=wft (accessed January 26, 2021).