My ancestor, Maud Ethel Yardley was born Nov 1887 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire to William Yardley and Emma Smith, according to her birth certificate.
We have been completely unable to find anything on either of her parents though, the only known was her father being a commercial traveller.
In 1901, Maud lives with another Yardley family in Surrey and is classified as a "sister". The former head of that family was an Edward Hamilton Yardley (d. 1893). By 1910 Maud married Herbert George Payne and went on to have several children, including a son she named Charles Hamilton Payne.
We don't know what to think of Maud's childhood, nor her parentage. Edward Hamilton Yardley was also a commercial traveller, so the thought did enter our minds of he being the legitimate father and the rest of the family waiting until his wife died in 1913 to tell Maud the truth...hence her adding Hamilton to Charles name in 1915.
This is pure speculation though.
Really, we'd like to find Maud's parentage and track the correct Yardley family.
I look forward to any input!
We have been completely unable to find anything on either of her parents though, the only known was her father being a commercial traveller.
In 1901, Maud lives with another Yardley family in Surrey and is classified as a "sister". The former head of that family was an Edward Hamilton Yardley (d. 1893). By 1910 Maud married Herbert George Payne and went on to have several children, including a son she named Charles Hamilton Payne.
We don't know what to think of Maud's childhood, nor her parentage. Edward Hamilton Yardley was also a commercial traveller, so the thought did enter our minds of he being the legitimate father and the rest of the family waiting until his wife died in 1913 to tell Maud the truth...hence her adding Hamilton to Charles name in 1915.
This is pure speculation though.
Really, we'd like to find Maud's parentage and track the correct Yardley family.
I look forward to any input!
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