SKEATS/SKATES (VARI)
Seeking links to Nathaniel Skeats (Variation) who was an Innkeeper in Hampshire U.K. Nathaniel was married to Mary Brown and when she died he married Sarah Saunders.
A daughter Celia Ann SKEATS was b.c.1843 and she married Thomas Down Montomgery who eventually came to Australia.
Thomas was born to John Montgomery b.1810 at Halifax Nova Scotia. He married 1832 to Jane Down b.1814 to Thomas and Jane Down at Stoke Damerel, where Thomas was a Sawyer.
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Sincerely Thelma & Matthew Birrell in Queensland Australia.