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The Tate family are a family that was introduced in-lieu with Emmerdale Farm's rebranding as Emmerdale and move to primetime in 1989. 

The original family consisted of Frank Tate, his children Chris and Zoe, and his second wife Kim.

Currently, the only family members still residing in Emmerdale are Frank's widow Kim, his long-lost son Caleb Miligan and Caleb's wife Ruby Fox-Miligan, as well as Frank's grandchildren Noah Dingle and Thomas Tate.

Storylines[]

1980s[]

Frank and Chris Tate first arrived in the village in November 1989 as the new rich family running Home Farm. They were joined by Frank's daughter Zoe and wife Kim in December. 

1990s[]

In November 1991, Chris married Kathy Merrick. In December 1992, Frank and Kim's marriage broke down after her affair was revealed and Frank started struggling with alcoholism. The following year, Zoe came out as a lesbian and Chris' marriage with Rachel started to falter. Chris was left paralysed after the infamous plane crash in 1993 and soon pursued an affair with Rachel Hughes which resulted in him leaving Kathy and Rachel falling pregnant.

Frank and Kim remarried in December 1994 and in June 1995, Rachel gave birth to Frank's first grand-child Joseph. In December, Chris married Rachel but their marriage lasted less than a year because of Chris's increasingly selfish and money-grabbing ways. The following May, Zoe had a commitment ceremony with Emma Nightingale which ended even quicker as Zoe had fallen for Emma's ex Susie and left Emma for her just days after the ceremony. In September 1996, Kim gave birth to her and Frank's son, James Tate.

One by one, the original family thinned out; Frank died of a heart attack in 1997, Kim fled the village with James in 1999. The same year, Zoe and Chris discovered that Frank had fathered an illegitimate son Liam Hammond in 1961. However, he was fatally shot by Zoe in November after he kidnapped Chris. 

2000s[]

In 2000 the Tates found themselves in a feud with the infamous Dingles after they were found responsible for the bus crash which killed Butch Dingle. Despite that, Chris pursued a relationship with former prostitute, and Butch's cousin, Charity Dingle. In November 2001 they married, despite her having an affair with Zoe during their engagement. In January 2003, Zoe gave birth to her daughter Jean. Later that year, Chris discovered he had an inoperable brain tumour and committed suicide. The following March, Charity gave birth to Chris' son Noah but they left the village a year later. Zoe remained in the village until 2005 when she left the village for New Zealand alongside her daughter Jean and nephew Joseph.

Noah returned to the village alongside his mother in October 2009. Noah eventually dropped the Tate name and adopted his mother's maiden name; Dingle.

2010s[]

In 2017, Joseph (now simply "Joe") returned as a successful young man, CEO of an international corporation...and all under the alias of Tom Waterhouse. His true identity was revealed in January 2018.

Eight months later in October, Joe left the village to go on the run and Kim was released from prison and returned to Emmerdale. Her son, Jamie Tate, who had lost contact with his mother years ago, also came to Emmerdale in April 2019, and not long afterwards revealed he had a wife and daughter, Andrea and Millie. 

2020s[]

In January 2020, the Tates were all involved in the murder mystery of who killed Kim's latest husband Graham Foster. In the aftermath, Jamie embarked on an affair with Belle Dingle, which resulted in much turmoil between Andrea, Jamie and the Dingle family, including Jamie running over Moira Dingle.

In 2021, Jamie began a relationship with Dawn Taylor, who Kim disapproved of. Jamie later impregnated Gabby Thomas and to his horror Kim took Gabby under her wing and moved her into Home Farm. It was later discovered that Gabby had been stealing from Kim, however Kim forgave her much to Jamie's annoyance. For the first half of the year Kim felt under the weather and worried she may have dementia, but it was later revealed Jamie had been spiking her brandy to take control over her, this resulted in Kim faking her death to catch Jamie out. However, Jamie eventually wormed his way back into Home Farm.

In September 2021, Jamie did a runner from the village and accidentally crashed his car into a lake. The following day, his car was pulled out of the lake, but Jamie was nowhere to be found and presumed dead. The following month, Andrea was murdered by serial killer Meena Jutla, seemingly leaving Millie an orphan. Days later, Gabby gave birth to Jamie's son and makes a deal with Kim to sign over 20% of everything she owned to Gabby, about £4,000,000 worth, to ensure Gabby had resources to fight Kim should it ever come to that, on the condition that she gave the baby the surname "Tate". Gabby accepted Kim's terms and subsequently named her son "Thomas Tate".

In November 2021, Andrea's mother Hazel revealed to Kim that she would be taking Millie home with her as Andrea had named her as Millie's legal guardian, leaving Kim devastated. However, unbeknownst to anyone else, Millie was then secretly reunited with Jamie who was revealed to be alive.

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