CoatesChronicles

[...] . a. Mr John Currans of Richardson Street, Belfast has been in touch. He has researched the Coates family deeply and its links in East Belfast. It seems that many of the street names of the Lower [...]

[...] Cootes was a member of the WWII team of code-breakers that broke the infamous Enigma Code. The Coates family legacy is unmatched. They were involved in an awesome variety of business and charitable [...]

[...] Previously I had mentioned  that the Coates family were keen on hunting. One day Victor Coates of Rathmore (my great grandfather) returned home [...]

[...] While recently researching the Coates family of Rathmore, I stumbled across Dr Michael Bassett’s biographical work of Gordon Coates,e x [...]

[...] in numerous countries in South America, Jamaica, the former Yugoslavia, Australia and New Zealand (where he lived for twelve years). Tropical illnesses took their toll on his digestive [...]

[...] to their collective impact on industrial history. It is the Mullogh, beached on Quail Island, New Zealand, in 1923, and still recognisable as a ship. A century and half ago Victor Coates waved goodbye [...]

[...] I were in Auckland, [whereas] my grandparents [were in] Sydney. While my grandfather enjoyed New Zealand there simply wasn’t enough action for my grandmother, so she went on to terrorize shopkeepers [...]

[...] across Dr Michael Bassett’s biographical work of Gordon Coates,e x prime minister of New Zealand. The work, published in 1995 is called ‘Coates of the Kaipara’. I was interested to [...]

[...] touch to give this permission. Nicholas writes - I explained in an earlier email how my father Victor Coates (Arthur Cootes 1907-2002) took my mother Charlotte Daunt to meet family in Belfast after a [...]

[...] here because two of the sons were called Victor and William, and some time later another Victor Coates changed his surname to Cootes. John told me that Victor Cootes was a member of the WWII team [...]

[...] Previously I had mentioned  that the Coates family were keen on hunting. One day Victor Coates of Rathmore (my great grandfather) returned home from shooting with his clothing thoroughly [...]

[...] a thesis on the family which he has passed to me, with the intention of giving a copy to Nicholas Coates when he visits us. b. Nicholas Coates has told me that unfortunately he won’t be arriving [...]

[...] 1st 1907, he retained US citizenship throughout his life. His early years were spent in Northern Ireland, living with his father and paternal grandparents at Rathmore House, between Dunmurry and [...]

[...] ’. I was interested to learn that Gordon Coates had an ancestral connection to Belfast, Northern Ireland. In this case it seems it came from his mother’s side of the family, the  ’Aickens’. [...]

[...] retired and came back to Northern Ireland, staying initially with a cousin. He joined the Belfast Chess Club, CIYMS Chess Club and Knock Golf Club. It was a member of the Belfast Chess Club who by [...]

[...] Obituary by Gerald Harvey, from Ulster Chess Union Arthur Cootes, past President of the Ulster Chess Union, winner of the Williamson Shield, friend and mentor [...]

[...] permission. Nicholas writes - I explained in an earlier email how my father Victor Coates (Arthur Cootes 1907-2002) took my mother Charlotte Daunt to meet family in Belfast after a short courtship in [...]

[...] the Coates family of Rathmore, I stumbled across Dr Michael Bassett’s biographical work of Gordon Coates,e x prime minister of New Zealand. The work, published in 1995 is called ‘Coates of the [...]

[...] Obituary by Gerald Harvey, from Ulster Chess Union Arthur Cootes, past President of the Ulster Chess Union, winner of the Williamson Shield, friend and mentor to many of us, died on December 1st [...]

[...] road. The house took its name from the stream, now culverted, on whose banks it lay. This Vicxtor Coates is regarded as the founder of Glentoran Football Club. He organised the merger of two [...]