The headstone of Richard W Scoates and his wife Sophia Teresa Osborn in the cemetery at Redwood Falls,Minn. 

These were the first of our SCOATES family to settle in the United States Of America in 1853.

Richard W Scoates was the elder brother of Samuel Francis Scoates, both were sons of William Scoates and Elizabeth Bowles of Margate, Kent,England.

The website of the SCOATES family of Kent, England, The pages of this website are about our Family History, Genealogy, Coats Of Arms associated with our family, Baptisms, Deaths and Marriages from the church registers of St Johns, Thanet, St Lawrence,Thanet, and St Peters, Thanet.

The emigration of part of our family to America in 1853.

Included is the event of Capt Samuel Francis Scoates receiving an award from President Ulysses S Grant of The United States of America.