Catherine Ann (Yeardley) Irby (1576 - abt. 1650)

Born 1576 in England

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Died about 1650 at about age 74 in Bedfordshire England or Sommers Picardie France

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Biography

Catherine Ann Yeardley was born circa 1576 to Parents Ralph Yeardley and Agnes Abbott. Her mother passed away in 1576 and her father Ralph Yeardley remarried to Rhoda Marston. Catherine siblings include 4 (half) brothers. Thomas who died in childhood, John, Ralph and George. (George became Governor of British Colonial Virginia.)

Catherine married Edward Irby and together they had 2 sons John and Walter..founders of all Irby's in America. It was mostly likely Catherine's Brothers George and Ralph'S experiences in the "New World" that fueled their nephews John and Walter move to Virginia.

Catherine died in 1650 and was buried in Odell, Bedfordshire England

From Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography pg. 39 Yardley, George, deputy governor of Vir ginia, from May, 1616, to May, 1617 and governor and captain-general of Virginia from April, 1619 to November 18, 1621, and from May 17, 1626 to November 13, 1627, was son of He was one of four brothers: Ralph; George, the sub ject of the present sketch; John and Thomas; and a sister Anne, who married Edwaid Irby."

Sources

• Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography Vol. 1 pg 39.

by Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, 1853-1935 Publication date 1915 Publisher New York, Lewis historical publishing company Collection robarts; toronto Digitizing sponsor MSN Contributor Robarts - University of Toronto Language English Volume 1 26 Copyright-Evidence reported by lexw@archive.org for item encyclopediaofvi01tyleuoft on February 21, 2008: visible notice of copyright; stated date is 1915. Copyright-evidence-date 20080221200454 Copyright-evidence-operator lexw@archive.org Copyright-region US Identifier encyclopediaofvi01tyleuoft Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t38053946 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Pages 432 Possible copyright status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT Ppi 500 Scandate 20080223022940 Scanner scribe13 Full catalog record MARCXML

Geni.com fIle [1]

Pedigree of Catherine Yeardley [2]

Gen pro file [3]

Myheritage file Agnes Yeardley born Abbott [4]

Notes

Yeardley/Yardley name: Yeardley (also: Yeardlea, Yeardlee, Yeardleigh, Yeardlie, or Yardley) is a given name and a surname. The name means "enclosed meadow" [5]

Last name: Yeardley Recorded as Yardley, Yeardley, Yearsley, and Yeardsley, this is an English surname. It is locational from any of the places called Yardley in the West Midlands, Essex, Northamptonshire, or Yarley in Somersetshire, or Yeardsley in Derbyshire. The derivation is from Old English pre 7th century word "gerd" meaning a pole or marker post, and "leah" a farm in a forest. As a locational name is is usually a 'from' name. That is to say a name given to a person who left their original homestead to move somewhere else, and was most easily identified by being called after their former village. This surname dates back to the 12th century, [6] Read more: [7]

Acknowledgments

• WikiTree profile Yeardley-4 created through the import of Dulaney, Kelley Family Tree.ged on Aug 1, 2011 by Christina Marshall.