The Yeatts name comes from the old English "geat," and was probably first used as a name for a keeper of a gate.
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Early Origins of the Yeatts family
The surname Yeatts was first found in Gloucestershire, England where they were first on record in 1198. The name spread throughout England and Scotland, and possibly arrived in Ireland in the wake of the Norman invasion of 1172. Bearers of this name definitely came from Britain to Ireland with Cromwell's Adventurers for Land in the 17th century.
"The famous family of Yeats, which had formerly been in Dublin, settled in Co. Sligo at the end of the seventeenth century. There are a number of families of Yates and Yeates elsewhere unconnected with them. " 1
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Early History of the Yeatts family
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Yeatts Spelling Variations
Spelling variations of this family name include: Yates, Yate, Yeats and others.
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Early Notables of the Yeatts family
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Migration of the Yeatts family
Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Edward Yates, who settled in Virginia in 1619; one year before the "Mayflower," Leonard Yeats, who settled in Virginia in 1623; Henry Yates, who settled in Virginia in 1636.
Contemporary Notables of the name Yeatts (post 1700)
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Coleman B. Yeatts, American Democratic Party politician, Member of Virginia State Senate 19th District, 1976-79 2
William Walter Murray Yeatts CIE, (d. 1948), Scottish diplomat from Edinburgh, Scotland, Census Commissioner for the 1941 census of India
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