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The IGI has the following baptisms:

• Sarah YEATES 1 July 1744 (to Moses and Mary)
• Isaac YEATES 27 December 1746 (ditto)
• Ann YEATES 19 August 1750 (ditto)
• Mary YEATES 28 May 1738 (ditto).

Dave Erasmus

FamilySearch has a baptism record for Moses YEATES in "Chicklade", Wiltshire. The date of birth is recorded as 6 July 1735 and the date of Baptism as 13 July 1735. The father is shown as Moses, but there is no mother's name.

Yes, it's possible that this is your man. I suggest you try to find out what happened to this particular Moses YEATES to see if you can rule him out. Did he marry/die locally? Did he have any siblings? What happened to them? etc etc

You seem to have researched many of the places I would have suggested

I did find this in Somerset Record Office!   - seems to suggest he was a Yeoman Farmer.

Repository Somerset Heritage Centre
Level Piece
Ref No Q/SR/328/4/22
Title Conviction.
Description Moses Yeates of Bedminster, Yeoman, is convicted of cursing 5 profane curses. JP: John Brickdale.
Date 23 Jul 1760

You might try the Overseers' Account Book to see if he is entered there as a tax payer - it might give an address for him.

The burial of Moses YATES [sic] on the 17th Jan 1788, aged 57,  was at St John's Church Bedminster.  The transcription by the Bristol & Avon FHS does not mention Bedminster Down - have you seen the original?  However,when  Jane YEATES was buried at St John's Bedminster it does give the abode as Bedminster Down but there is also mention of a Mr JONES - what does that mean?

There is always the possibility that Moses might have been christened as a child or young adult so have you looked in a wider year range?   (One of my ancestors was christened when he was 65!)

Perhaps some other members have some ideas.

In case you haven't seen it the was a query about the WASHER family last year which prompted several comments and may lead you to other people researching the same family.  You can read it here  

There was also an article in one of our Journals in 2012 about the graveyards at Berrow and Brean which you may find interesting, especially as it concerns war graves.  You can read that here

That article mentions some booklets published by this society in the 1990s and as I can't see them in the list of Publications for Sale I will quote from them.

WASHER Flight Lieutenant Charles Alan (NZ) Died 12 June 1940 29 years - Burial of Ashes 14 June 1940.

In the same grave:-

• Edward died 24 March 1918, 79 years;
• Eleanor wife of Edward, died 1 April 1892, 48 years
• George died 26 June 1899, 62 years.

The Memorial on the Grave does not include George but does say

"Also in proud memory of Flight Lieutenant Charles Alan WASHER (NZ) aged 29 who bravely gave his life that others might live June 12th 1940"