Welcome to everyone who has taken up the challenge of researching the ancient family name of Mote. Hopefully, you will find something to help you in your quest in these web pages.
My web site is a compilation of Mote references that I have discovered in documents and indexes for the UK. Where possible, I have linked records for people into families. But, be warned, some of these links are "best guesses" and require further research.
In creating this data base of Mote events I have started with family groups as shown in various UK Census records and then added birth, marriage and death dates when I have been able to locate them. This process has in turn led to linking some of the family groups into possible family trees (refer to the charts). Eventually I hope to find relationships to my own family tree which currently starts with John William MOTE, born circa 1809, Southwark, England.
The ultimate aim would be to link everyone into one large Mote Family Tree. Oh well, I am allowed to dream :-).
This data base is a working data base where dates and relationships may change frequently as new information comes to hand.
The phpGedView Charts & Reports link in the top menu will take you to a seperate site where the same data is used to produce charts and/or reports of your own choosing which download to your own computer.
As a guide to the spread of the Mote surname in England, the following are the number of Mote census entries in England & Wales in 1891.
Buckinghamshire - 1, Cambridgeshire - 17, Derbyshire - 1, Devonshire - 5, Glamorgan - 15, Gloucestershire - 3, Herefordshire - 1, Hertfordshire - 3, Huntingdonshire - 12, Kent - 1, Lancashire - 8, London - 96, Middlesex - 13, Norfolk - 10, Northamptonshire - 3, Oxfordshire - 2, Shropshire - 1, Suffolk - 4, Surrey - 2, Sussex - 8, Staffordshire - 2, Warwickshire - 7, Worcestershire - 1