Genealogy of the Bate Family surname in British Columbia T. E. Bate Family home in Cumberland, British Columbia Mark Bate Sr. Updated 27 January 1999 Mark Bate Sr. was the first Mayor of Nanimo, British Columbia. He was born in England and emigrated with Elizabeth Bate in January of 1857. If you have any documents, images, verbal history, etceteras please submit them. The following Table is the Bate family tree as I know it .
Colors indicate common locations.
Mark Bate Sr. These will be available on request . Any genealogical study builds on the work of others. I wish to thank Gayle Jesperson and my mother Oleta Winona Fitzgerald for their contributions and my wife Ann for helping sort out six boxes of family documents and images. Hopefully our work will help others find out about their roots.