1855 Letter from Mary (Buckton) Hardy to Her Sister, Elizabeth (Buckton) Coates
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Hi, Wonderful that you have this letter! I am directly descended from Elizabeth and Matthew Coates. This confirms the family connection to Jackson Buckton. I must visit Trafalgar, next time (if ever?) I can get to Toronto.
Did you know there is a Coates family connection to Cleveland, Ohio, which was named after Moses Cleveland did the original survey, I believe with a Coates in his party from the North Yorkshire region of England called Cleveland? Where a daughter of Jacksons (Landowners) married a Buckton and founded a village called Lazenby? I think the 18th c farmhouse of Jackson Buckton still exists as a farmhouse. All Jacksons and Bucktons are buried in nearby Wilton churchyard.
The Coates are named from their dwellings in the Doomsday book. "Some families live above the beach in a hamlet of Cotes (now Coatham), and buy coal off the boatman on the beach and sell it to nearby Guisborough Abbey."
Thank you for preserving my family's historical document.
Ken