Bates family of Gorey Wexford

[Kiltaglassan]

Thanks Kiltaglassan for providing the link.

A pleasure......here's hoping you connect with Rory 

[Rory Reynolds]

Thank you for the article sadbrewer. I does seem odd that it was published in 1916 and speaks of Bates as if he were still alive whereas we know him to have died in 1914.

Attached you will find, with the kind permission of the Transvaal Archives, two pages which are in the way of an application for employment Bates submitted to the authorities in 1904. He was unsuccessful and, later that year, headed back to England. I have emailed these and other pages to Gary West.

Regards

Rory

[sadbrewer]

Thank you for the article sadbrewer. I does seem odd that it was published in 1916 and speaks of Bates as if he were still alive whereas we know him to have died in 1914.

Attached you will find, with the kind permission of the Transvaal Archives, two pages which are in the way of an application for employment Bates submitted to the authorities in 1904. He was unsuccessful and, later that year, headed back to England. I have emailed these and other pages to Gary West.

Regards

Rory

His wedding notice in the papers give the impression he actually got the job.

[sadbrewer]

Josephine Bates' death.

[Kiltaglassan]

His wedding notice in the papers give the impression he actually got the job.

Marriage link - 6 May 1907
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/marriage_returns/marriages_1907/10090/5670682.pdf
Benjamin described as a bachelor and gentleman living at Ashfield Avenue, Ranelagh, Dublin. No occupation listed in South Africa.
Josephine living at 22 Elm Park Avenue, Ranelagh.

From FreeBMD https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl
Death Jul-Sep 1914   
Bates    Josephine    49    Pancras    1b   4

Death Oct-Dec 1914   
Bates    Benjamin W    46    Pancras    1b   14