Yardley family

Helen, to answer about who were the Yardleys. As Neil says they pop up everywhere. It was my maiden name and of course Neil's surname. They were just families that had been around a long time in Coventry and I think as they kept popping up in different posts the Mods eventually gave them their own topic. My family of Yardleys had been in Coventry for at least 400 years and Neil's goes back quite a long way. We would like to link the families but have not managed it yet. I don't know if you have come across my article in "Members articles" that I wrote about "400 Years of Yardleys in Coventry". I think it is interesting that they followed the history of Coventry, going back through the bicycle trade, watchmaking and weaving. I also had the interest of an ancestor who was mayor and his father was a miller at the Bastille Mill. I have never found any connection with the Birmingham Yardleys but you can never say there is no connection unless you go so far back. There are also places with the name Yardley in Northampton but again no connection, although I have connected to Northampton. Incidentally just recently my 3rd cousin and I have managed to connect one of our early Yardley ancestors through a female line to Harwars in Stoke, and then a couple of generations back to the Sacheverell family. This has enabled us to go back to 1066 and beyond to Normandy. The Sacheverells are well documented and we have an ancestor who was knighted by Henry VIII at his coronation to Catherine of Aragon who attended at the Cloth of Gold and another one who was knighted by Richard III at Bosworth but was killed in the battle. I know Neil has always been desperate to find pictures of Silver Street, if you look his posts go back 10 years and I think we are both proud that we belong to such a long line of Coventry families (although our family have let the side down and no longer have a Yardley there) so please excuse us if we do pop up from time to time.

Nice one Anne! Yes I was always led to believe by an aunt that there were two strands of Yardley family going back a long way in the city. I am back to the early 1700's so far and they were all in central Coventry! Yes Anne I was aware of Yardley Hastings and Yardley Gobion in Northants - there are also many Yardley graves in the churchyard at Burton Dassett for some reason. I have found a 3x great grandfather came from West Haddon in Northants but that's going off a father of a 2x great grandmother so veering away from the Yardley line. The thing with Genealogy is you need to be strict with the line you follow - obviously with every generation you go back you get another set of grandparents - and names - so it's easy to lose track! I have also mentioned before that when Derek was looking through the LRC database there were well over 200 Yardleys(!) most in unmarked graves. The ironic thing is today it is a relatively less common name here though with my two boys I'm trying to do my bit!

Thank you both I keep bumping into Yardleys when I look for stuff. My sister is the family history buff. She's making who do you think you are style dvds on various branches. In January we went to the Nantwich Holly Holy Day so we could film Civil War footage. We're both at the same period in history but at different parts of the country.

Yardleys in Croft Road, 1911.

Thanks for that Heathite, the Albert mentioned was my grandad,

You're very welcome Here's the map from the same directory (1911). I've rotated it for ease of viewing. Hope it helps with locating/location.

I just got the year books for Bushills and sure enough the Yardleys pop up. In 1930 a D Yardley is pallbearer for Ann Bushill. He had over 50 years of service with the company. A David Laxon Yardley retires the next year with 51

We get everywhere, Helen, as you know! Don't think they are my lot. Anne?

Interesting. I can't claim these Yardleys, I don't have them on my tree.

Not looking so good yesterday, Neil

Thanks, Cliff - yes that's the later replacement building which I got to nosey around a couple of years ago - Pubs post I need to catch-up with the chap who was trying to do something with it.