Sophia (Birch) Yates (bef. 1835 - abt. 1908)

Born before 8 Mar 1835 in Cannock, Staffordshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Hugh Yates — married 1855 in Walsall, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom

Died about Sep 1908 after about age 73 in Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Sophia was born in 1835. She was the daughter of Edmund Birch and Catherine Brindley.

She married Hugh Yates in 1855.^[1]

Sophia died in 1908.^[2][3]

Sources

1. ↑ "England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915", Original data: England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office; Volume: 6b; Page: 851, Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 8913 #2491984 (accessed 11 December 2023), Sophia Birch marriage registered Oct-Nov-Dec 1855 in Walsall.
2. ↑ "Staffordshire, England, Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes, 1837-2017", Staffordshire County Council; Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire, England; Indexes of Births, Marriages and Deaths for the County of Staffordshire; Reference Number: L/59/94, Ancestry Record 61709 #4352503 (accessed 11 December 2023), Sophia Yates death 1908 (age 73) in Staffordshire, England.
3. ↑ "England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915", Original data: England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office; Volume: 6b; Page: 240, Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 8914 #38216162 (accessed 11 December 2023), Sophia Yates death registered Jul-Aug-Sep 1908 in Lichfield (age 73).

• "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NG8T-D2N : accessed 14 Aug 2013), Sophia Birch, 08 Mar 1835.

• "England and Wales Census, 1841," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MQRB-5G4 : accessed 14 Aug 2013), Sophia Birch, 1841.

• "1861 England Census", Class: Rg 9; Piece: 1973; Folio: 69; Page: 2; GSU roll: 542896; ED, institution, or vessel: 13; Household schedule number: 8, Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 8767 #20164492 (accessed 11 December 2023), Sophia Yates (26), wife, in household of Hugh Yates (28) in Burntwood Edial and Woodhouses in Lichfield registration district in Staffordshire, England. Born in Cannock, Staffordshire, England.

• "1871 England Census", The National Archives; Kew, London, England; 1871 England Census; Class: RG10; Piece: 2914; Folio: 130; Page: 1; GSU roll: 836405; ED, institution, or vessel: 15; Household schedule number: 6, Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 7619 #1866927 (accessed 11 December 2023), Sophia Yates (36), wife, in household of Hugh Yates (39) in Burntwood, Burntwood Edial and Woodhouses in Lichfield registration district in Staffordshire, England. Born in Cannock, Staffordshire, England.

• "1881 England Census", Class: RG11; Piece: 2774; Folio: 52; Page: 1; GSU roll: 1341664; ED, institution, or vessel: 16, Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 7572 #19324407 (accessed 11 December 2023), Sophia Yates (46), wife, in household of Hugh Yates (48) in The Green, Burntwood Edial and Woodhouses in Lichfield registration district in Staffordshire, England. Born in Cannock, Staffordshire, England.

• "1891 England Census", The National Archives of the UK (TNA); Kew, Surrey, England; Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891; Class: RG12; Piece: 2213; Folio: 92; Page: 5; GSU roll: 6097323, Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 6598 #16595655 (accessed 11 December 2023), Sophia Yates (56), wife, in household of Hugh Yates (58) in Burntwood, Burntwood in Lichfield registration district in Staffordshire, England. Born in Cannock, Staffordshire, England.

• "1901 England Census", Class: RG13; Piece: 2655; Folio: 142; Page: 65; ED, institution, or vessel: 15; Household schedule number: 382, Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 7814 #34699185 (accessed 11 December 2023), Sophia Yates head of household in Burntwood in Lichfield registration district in Staffordshire, England. Born in Gentleshaw, Staffordshire, England.