Within Lanchester ( Co Durham) Registration District the death of a Percy W Keates was registered in Sept Qtr 1931. This Percy was aged 44 yrs at death.
In March Qtr 1922 with Gateshead RD, a Job Keates death, aged 79, was registered, but this Wiltshire-born seemed to have no connection with Percy.
Percy/Alice last child registered 1928 Gateshead.
The Surname Profiler web site shows the surname Keates to be very strongly rooted in Potteries and Oxfordshire, with no showing in the north of England !
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