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The family name Keats emerged as a notable family name in the county of Devonshire where they were recorded as a family of great antiquity seated at Kitts and they were the Lords of the manor and of now extinct baronets. They also branched into Berkshire and Gloucestershire .

In North America members of the family name Keats had made their way to the New World in such places as Newfoundland , Maryland , Boston and Philadelphia . These first migrants could be considered a kinsman of the surname Keats or a variable spelling of the family name.

Some of early instances of Keats in North America are:

  • John Keates, Justice of Ferryland district, 1730;

  • William Keate(s), of Trinity Bay , 1765;

  • John Keats, Boston, 1769;

  • Thomas Keate of Maryland, 1774;

  • M. Keates, of St. Mary's , 1782;

  • Sarah, of Trinity , Trinity Bay, 1794;

  • Robert Keats, of Bonavista , 1794;

  • - Keat, joint purchaser of fishing room on Pond Island, Greenspond Harbour, 1802;

  • Robert Keates, missionary of Twillingate , 1813;

  • James Keat, of St. John's , 1828;

  • George Keets, school-master of Port Rexton , 1843;

  • Samuel Keates, of Castle Cove, Bonavista Bay , 1856;

  • Thomas J., granted land at Little Placentia (now Argentia ), 1857;

  • Ann Kates, of Herring Neck , 1857;

  • Frederick and John Keats, Philadelphia, between 1868 and 1870;

  • Robert Kates or Keates, of Grates Cove , 1860, of Caplin Cove , Conception Bay, 1871;

  • Samuel Keats, of Musgravetown , 1871;

  • Samuel and William, of Newman's Cove , 1871;

  • Theodore Kates, of Cape Norman , 1871.


Notable amongst the Keats family name would be:

The Coat Of Arms for Keats is a silver shield overlaid with three dark silver mountain cats beneath an Armet and embroidered with vines and leaves of alternating colours of red and silver.

Place names using Keats:


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