Elizabeth
Yeardley
Born about in Jamestown, Virginia
Ancestors 
Daughter of George Yeardley
and Temperance (Flowerdew) West
Sister of
Argoll Yeardly Sr and Francis Yeardley
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 45
in Jamestown, James City County, Virginia
Profile last modified
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Biography
Elizabeth was born in about 1619.[1]
"According to the Muster of the inhabitants of the corporation of James City in Virginia, taken 24 January 1624, the three children of Sir George and Lady [Temperence Flowerdew] Yardley were all born in the colony, namely their eldest child and only daughter, Elizabeth, in 1619..."[2]
After Elizabeth's father died in 1627, her mother married Francis West, but then died the following year. Elizabeth and her siblings -- all minors -- were placed under the guardianship of their uncle Ralph Yardley (back in England) who won a lawsuit to protect their father's estate.[2]
A memorial-only profile on Find-a-Grave claims she died on 19 July 1660 in Jamestown, James City County, Virginia. [3] There is no solid documentation of such a death.
Research Notes
Disputed Spouse
A previous version of this profile claimed citing only the highly unreliable "International Marriages" that Elizabeth Yeardley married about 1631 in Williamsburg, Virginia to Joseph Croshaw.[4] and they had 4 children. There is no independent evidence to support this claim, and it is more likely she returned to England after her parents' death.
Other
From Martha W. McCartney, Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary, p 775:
- Elizabeth Yeardley (Yardley). Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir George and Lady Temperance Flowerdue Yeardly, was born in Virgnia around 1619 and on February 16, 1624, was residing in Jamestown (1) with her parents, brother Argoll, and the family's servants. The Yeardleys were still in Jamestown on January 24, 1625, at which time Elizabeth was age 6. The Yeardly children lost their father in 1627 and their mother (who had remarried) in December 1628. Elizabeth stood to inherit a sixth of her late father's estate, the bulk of which was in the hands of her uncle Ralph Yeardly, who lived in England (CBE 38, 54; MEY 726)."
By
"Sir George Yeardley, or Yardley, governor and captian general of Virginia, and Temperance (West) Lady Yeardley, and some of their descendants"
- Sir George Yeardley was one of the ablest and most popular of Virginia's Colonial Governors. His public acts are matters of history, and as many of them have been published and commented upon in several magazines during the past few years, I shall confine myself in this article to giving a list of as many of his descendants as the limited time at my disposal has allowed me to trace. If simply a matter of mentioning those who have borne Yeardley as a surname my list would be short and easy of compilation, for the name became extinct in his line of descendants, in the fourth generation, and only one son and one grandson lived to have issue, and the surviving children of the latter were three daughters, neither of whom married a Yeardley, and after their marriage the name of Yeardley, except as a baptismal name, disappeared from Virginia so far as I have discovered. It is only recently that the maiden name of Temperance, Lady Yeardley, has again become known in this country. For many years, historians and genealogists have sought it in vain. She came to Virginia in the "Falcon". [5]
> Hotten's Original List of Immigrants; Capt. Nelson Martin, Master
> N. E. Hist. and Gen. Reg. p415 and was Temperance West when she married Sir George. Her parentage is still undecided.
Trees referenced:
Sources
- ↑ https://familysearch.org/tree/person/details/M229-89J
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 James P. C. Southall. "Concerning George Yardley and Temperance Flowerdew: A Synopsis and Review." The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 55, no. 3 (1947): 261, citing Hotten. Accessed March 22, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4245492.
- ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #105929146 for Elizabeth (Yeardley) Croshaw, b: 1614 York County, Virginia, USA; d: 19 Jul 1660 Jamestown, James City County, Virginia, USA; as burial unknown
- ↑ International Marriages on ancestry.com; b: 1619 Brurton Parish, York County, Virginia
- ↑ https://archive.org/stream/sirgeorgeyeardle00upsh/sirgeorgeyeardle00upsh_djvu.txt
- Passenger and Immigration Lists Index 1500s-1900s compiled by Gale Research of Farmington Hills, MI, USA in 2010 on ancestry.com citing P. William Filby; arrival: 1624 Jamestown, James City County, Virginia.
Acknowledgements
- WikiTree profile Yeardley-2 was created on Jun 22, 2011 by Ted Williams through the import of WILLIAMS 2011.GED
- WikiTree profile Yeardley-5 was created on 04 Oct 2011 by Elizabeth Rankin through the import of Rankin-Ridgdill Family Tree.ged
- WikiTree profile Yeardley-11 was created on 29 Oct 2013 by Teresa Abram.
- WikiTree profile Yeardley-59 was created on 08 Aug 2019 by D. Marshall Satterwhite.
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Sorry, I am fairly sure dates dont match for this link....
edited by Marcie Mackechnie
I'd love to know because if she IS the mother of Unity Crowshaw West, then I am a direct descendant of Old Gov. George and Temperance. ♥
We can link to the disputed relations from the narrative, but unless you have something stronger than what's cited here now, there really is not sufficient evidence to keep her spouse or children attached.