Digitized images. Login to find your connection. Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, 1853-1935. married 31 Mar 1628 (to Dec 1628) in James City, Virginia Descendants Mother of Elizabeth (Yeardley) Croshaw , Argoll Yeardly Sr and Francis Yeardley Died about Dec 1628 at about age 38 in Jamestown, Virginia https://www.eclectibles.com/product-p/25020104.htm, which says in part that on 28 November 1618, John Pory wrote to Sir Dudley Carleton that he had been chosen to be "Secretary of Estate" in Virginia and "this Sir George Yardley hath married my cousin German and infinitely desires my company" citing Alexander Brown, The First Republic in America. She does however have that Temperance married George Yeardley in Virginia in 1613.[19]. [1] He owned another private plantation upriver on the south side of the James River opposite Weyanoke, named Flowerdew Hundred. Harper Collins Publishers, New York, 2003. He served as a captain of Lt. Resend Activation Email. Other than US/Intl Marriages and other online trees, there is a reference to "Pub. The search for descendants of Sir George Yeardley - YouTube 1. Lady Yeardley, as she had become on her husband being knighted, witnessed the will of John Rolfe on 10th March 1621/2,[11] He had at least 2 sons with Temperence Flowerdew. Hi! Exactly a month later he was appointed to serve three years as governor of Virginia, and was knighted by James VI and I during an audience at Newmarket on 24 November". Her future husband, Yeardley, had apparently also sailed with the 1609 Somers expedition, but separately, travelling with Somers and Gates on the doomed flagship, and eventually arriving at Jamestown from Bermuda in 1610. Several writers say that Temperance and Yeardley were married in England on 18th October 1618. By genealogy.com user April 03, 2000 at 06:02:13. It also turned out that the "The Treasurer" was partly owned by one of the wealthy investors in the Virginia Company, Samuel Argall, the man who proceeded George as governor and who George had named his first son after. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4242747. Presumably these reports trace back to a single original source, not yet identified. Also spelled Yeardley Last updated Fall 2000 Table of Contents Descendants of Gov. The flagship of the convoy, the Sea Venture, had the new leaders for Jamestown aboard, including George Yeardley. The Memorial Church in Historic Jamestowne. You may not upload any more photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 15 photos to this memorial. Make sure that the file is a photo. Due to the struggling finances of the Virginia Company and the effects of the 1622 Massacre the crown decided to dissolve the company. The following month a ship called "The White Lion," captained by John Colyn Jope arrived at Point Comfort. Ancestry.com. All rights reserved. George Yeardley, Sr. 1515 - 1593. [3], After leaving office, he left Virginia for Ireland and England to settle his father's estate. This is incredibly upsetting to see, but an ephemera store in Tolland, CT has an extensive record for this family, on sale for $1200 , ugh. Because we have found no contemporaneous record of her in Virginia, we wonder if we might find something in England. [6] Upon her death, the estate was transferred to her children despite the efforts of her third husband to claim it. He was also a church commissioner for the county in 1651, 1652, and 1654 and a colonel of militia in 1653. Although George Yeardley acquired the thousand acres that he named Flowerdew Hundred in 1619, it seems very likely that some settlement had begun there before that date, for his brother-in-law Stanley Flowerdew took a shipment of tobacco to England in the same year, probably grown on the same property. P. Smith 19681951. There is a problem with your email/password. Now They Have to Prove He Is Who They Think He Is. The Washington Post, 24 June 2018. Temperance Flowerdew, Lady Yeardley (1590 1628)[1][2] was an early settler of the Jamestown Colony and a key member of the Flowerdew family, significant participants in the history of Jamestown. Dec 1628 Charts Descendants of Sir George Yeardley (Ancient Planter) Argoll was born on 31 August 1618 at London, England.1 Argoll Yeardley was born 1616-17 although shown as aged 4 in the muster, 1624/5, on 6 Sep 1638 repatented 3700 acres in Accomack County, the patent reciting that the land had been granted to Sir George Yeardley, Kt . George Yeardley's brother, Ralph Yeardley, became trustee for the property. Learn more about merges. However, the land appears to have been in use by Stanley Flowerdew, Yeardley's brother-in-law, before it was patented by Yeardley. After seven weeks at sea, and eight days from expected landfall, the convoy ran into a tropical storm and the Sea Venture was shipwrecked in the Bermudas. Just do what you can. A Stanley Flowerdew, apparently her brother, is said to be mentioned in colony records in 1619, and a nephew, Edmund Rossingham,[5] represented Flowerdew Hundred at the first Assembly in 1619. With her marriage to Francis Yeardley, the youngest son of Sir George Yeardley, the royal governor of Virginia, Sarah's prestige in the colony continued to prosper. Curabitur sollicitudin porttitor nisi. SIR GEORGE YEARDLEY OR YARDLEY, GOVERNOR AND CAPTAIN-GENERAL OF VIRGINIA, AND TEMPERANCE, LADY YEARDLEY, AND SOME OF THEIR DESCENDANTS. The American Historical Magazine, vol. Learn more about making a lasting impact by including the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation in your estate plans. Curabitur mattis purus ornare augue finibus, sed tempus ex eleifend. Francis Veisey 1571 - 1616. Close this window, and upload the photo(s) again. Later in 1627 George founded another 1,000 acre plantation on Mulbery Island, 10 miles down river from Jamestown on the north side of the James. Note that Yeardley named his Mulberry Island plantation "Stanley Hundred". Susan Myra Kingsbury, ed., Records of the Virginia Company, 16061626, 3:241242, 243245, 247248. She married Richard Barrow on April 29, 1609 at St Gregory by St Paul's, London,[15] by special licence[16] a month before the Falcon left Plymouth on 2 June 1609, after a number of delays, as part of the fleet headed for Jamestown and the New World. ""to quit many of our Plantacons and to vnite more neerely together in fewer places the better for to Strengthen and Defende ourselve. By the end of the winter, the five hundred English who had been left in Virginia only numbered about sixty. Capt Sir George Yeardley aka Yardley, Yearley Born 28 Jul 1588 in St. Saviour's Parish, Southwark, Surrey, England Ancestors Son of Ralph Yeardley and Rhoda Marston Brother of Catherine Ann (Yeardley) Irby [half], Thomas Yeardley [half] and Ralph Yeardley Jr [9] The next morning, they encountered a long-boat with dispatches from Lord De La Warr. The body was believed to have laid in-state because of the positioning of the remains and the way in which the body was wrapped. Can the England project help in this matter? Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. George Huguely Loses Lawsuit By Victim Yeardley Love's Family | Crime News Temperance is now placed [3] as a daughter of Anthony Flowerdew, of Hethersett, Norfolk, and his wife Martha (Stanley). George Yeardley died at Jamestown on November 10th, 1627 and was buried inside the church three days later. And if he was trying to keep the estate for himself, that would further mean he wouldn't have the rightful heirs- George's children's best interest in mind in this court case- hence neglecting to represent them, and as they were in Virginia, was probably easy to do so. The National Society of the Claiborne Family Descendants What happened to Elizabeth Yeardley daughter of Gov George Yardley George assumed the role of Governor and began implementing The Great Charter. [30], In 1622, Temperance Yeardley witnessed the will of John Rolfe, a fellow native of Norfolk. [2] On March 31, 1628, Flowerdew married his successor, Governor Francis West. When he arrived, Yeardley found the Virginia colony in financial and political difficulty caused largely by acting governor Samuel Argall. 1625 Account of the sinking of the Sea Venture, The Father of Representative Government in America (PDF). That ship and another called "The Treasurer" sold the first African slaves in the Colony. Eventually the state government issued a patent to George for the property. [22] It may simply be based on daughter Elizabeth's year of birth. 298302. Original data: Prerogative Court of Canterbury: Wills of Selected Famous Persons. He served from November 1639 until February 1641 and was then succeeded by Sir William Berkeley. Encyclopedia Virginia. Good Luck and please get back to us when you find out more! The Yeardleys were still in Jamestown on January 24, 1625, at which time Elizabeth was age 6. He was made Deputy Governor in 1616, but was replaced by Argall in 1617. You are only allowed to leave one flower per day for any given memorial. So, it's considered to be the birthplace of democracy in what became the United States of America.The condition of the remains looks pretty good and while working with ancient DNA is notoriously difficult, we have managed to extract DNA from the remains that we can work with.In order to identify the remains, we need to find individuals who are related to him either through an all-male line back to him or an all-female line back to his mother, ideally with a verified genealogy.We know that George Yeardley was born in 1587 in Southwark in London, England to Ralph Yeardley and Rhoda Marston.So, we're putting a call out to anybody who fits the criteria. "Squires and Dames of Old Virginia, 1950" p. 21 Los Angeles, Calif: Miller Print Co., 1950, Sturtz, Linda, Within Her Power: Propertied Women in Colonial Virginia, New York: Routledge (2002) p.24, Campbell, Charles. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA. Can we clean up the four Joseph Croshaw profiles? Governor Sir George Yeardley of Virginia By genealogy.com user August 12, 1998 at 03:14:01. When Gov. (We've asked for details about this source.). Yeardley named the property after his wife, Temperance Flowerdew. Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Series PROB 1. We will review the memorials and decide if they should be merged. He was the son of Ralph Yeardley (1549-1604), a London merchant-tailor, and Rhoda Marston (d. 1603). Governor Sir George Yeardley o - Genealogy.com https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42557848/george-yeardley. Co, 2007. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4243597. Fusce nulla turpis, efficitur eu tempus eu, accumsan malesuada sem. A.S. Salley, (New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1911), 21-29, This page was last edited on 20 April 2023, at 16:26. [2], Wyatt was governor of Virginia from November 1621. Her family has now won a wrongful death suit they filed against him. George Yardleys will left his house and household goods to his wife and directed that all his other property be sold for tobacco and the tobacco sent to England and exchanged for English money. He was the first English royal governor of Virginia. ", "Archaeological Excavations at 44JC568, The Reverend Richard Buck Site", The History Channel Interactive Jamestown Exhibit, Starving Winter of 16091610 Temperance Flowerdew, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Temperance_Flowerdew&oldid=1150886159. Analysis of the skeleton showed abnormalities in the leg and collar bones that indicated some type of long-term chronic disease. He was granted 300 acres (1.2 km2) of land to help defray the cost of maintaining himself as governor.In 1618, he patented 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) of land on Mulberry Island. [32], In 1619, her husband George Yeardley patented 1,000 acres (4.0km2) of land on Mulberry Island. With a population of about thirty, the plantation was economically successful with thousands of pounds of tobacco produced along with corn, fish and livestock.Yeardley paid 120 pounds (possibly a hogshead of tobacco) to build the first windmill in British America in 1621. Francis Wyatt's grandfather was Sir Thomas Wyatt the younger, who had led the Kent faction of Wyatt's rebellion to the Spanish marriage of Queen Mary in support of Lady Elizabeth, and was executed for treason as a result. [5], Flowerdew was one of the few survivors of the winter of 160910, known as the "Starving Time", which killed almost ninety percent of Jamestown's inhabitants. [12], But he was to have no children by Temperance, as she died in December the same year, not leaving a will. p415 and was Temperance West when she married Sir George. When his ship, the Sea Venture, was wrecked on Bermuda, he was stranded there with Gates and other leaders of the expedition for over nine months. A similar thing happened to a daughter of another "ancient planter": Dorcas Bargrave. Mary Yeardley 1516 - 1567. ( Ser Amantio di Nicolao/ CC BY SA 3.0 ) This is the location where the headless remains, possibly belonging to Sir George Yeardley, were found. [27] One of the representatives from the Flowerdew Hundred sent to the first General Assembly in Jamestown in 1619, was named, Ensign Edmund Rossingham. The year 1618 for their marriage seems to crop up as early as 1912. Gov. George Yeardley (1588-1627) FamilySearch They all returned up the river, back to Jamestown, on the same day, and Lord De La Warr arrived two days later. In 1622 he rallied the defence of Jamestown which was attacked by Native Americans, during which the lives of some 400 settlers were lost and he then oversaw the contraction of the colony from scattered outposts into a defensive core. [2] The newcomers were "shocked to discover the state of the colony". Morbi vestibulum libero et metus porttitor, vel ultrices lorem facilisis. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. 1588, d. 1627), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, R. C. D. Baldwin, Yeardley, Sir George (bap. Use the links under See more to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. The plantation elected two representatives to the first General Assembly in Jamestown in 1619: one was an ancestor of President Thomas Jefferson. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. Temperance Flowerdew - Dameron & George We know it's short notice, so don't fret too much. In 1625, at the age of 37, his occupation is listed as deputy-governor of virginia in Virginia, British Colonial America. He returned to Virginia in 1619. The sponsor of a memorial may add an additional. Opinions differ as to who was the mother of Francis West's children, if indeed they ever existed. F > Flowerdew | W > West > Temperance (Flowerdew) West, Categories: Jamestown, Virginia Colony | Ancient Planters of Virginia | Starving Time | Featured Connections | Jamestown Colonists | Jamestowne Society Qualifying Ancestors, WIKITREE HOME | ABOUT | G2G FORUM | HELP | SEARCH. [5], His younger brother, the Reverend Hawte Wyatt (15941638), who was the rector of Maidstone, Kent, travelled to Virginia with Francis in 1621 and returned with him to England in 1624 after their father died. He had sold their tobacco, servants and already the land in Jamestown was sold to Sir John Harvey in 1628. Temperance Flowerdew,[1] wife of Governor Sir George Yeardley and of acting Governor Francis West, was related by blood or marriage to several people of significance in the first 20 years of the Virginia colony; but not much is on record about the lady herself. The award-winning Archaearium museum houses over 2000 artifacts that bring James Forts story to life. Sir George Yeardley (1588 - 1627) was a plantation owner and three time colonial Governor of the British Colony of Virginia. Are you sure that you want to delete this flower? 13, no. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. There is no contemporary record of the Falcon passengers, so Temperance's surname at the time is not known, nor is it known what family members she might have travelled with. 2021 Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation. There was an error deleting this problem. Notable? This page is not available in other languages. With representatives from throughout the settled portion of the colony, the group became known as the House of Burgesses. 0 cemeteries found in Jamestown, James City County, Virginia, USA. Crime Junkie Podcast's 'MURDERED: Yeardley Love' focuses on a 22-year-old student-athlete who was killed in her bedroom in May 2010. In the summer of 2018 archaeologists at Jamestown announced that they were excavating a grave at Jamestown Church that they believe to be George Yeardley.
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