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unusual facts about Yeoman



Bay de Verde

1612 - October 1612 Bartholomew Pearson, yeoman of Wollaton, Nottingham, settler in the first English colony in Newfoundland, took part in John Guy’s expedition to Trinity Bay and was among those ship-wrecked at Green Bay (Bay de Verde) on the way back.

Buff, Smith and Hensman

Conrad served in the Navy in WWII at a base in Maryland, which was where he met his wife Elizabeth (Libby), a skipper's yeoman in the WAVES; film editor Conrad Buff IV is their son.

Caston

Caston was the residence of Edward Gilman, a prosperous yeoman of Welsh descent, who died in 1573.

Edward Anthony Hatton

He was probably the son of Edward Hatton, yeoman, of Great Crosby, Lancashire, who registered his estate as a Catholic non-juror in 1717, and whose family appears in the recusant rolls.

Helen Ashton

Also included amongst her fictional works were Bricks and Mortar (1932), republished in 2004 by Persephone Books, and Yeoman's Hospital (1944), on which the 1951 film White Corridors was based.

Herst

Richard Herst, a well-to-do yeoman in England of the 17th century.

Jacksonian democracy

:; Manifest Destiny: This was the belief that white Americans had a destiny to settle the American West and to expand control from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific and that the West should be settled by yeoman farmers.

Joshua John Moore

Lieutenant Joshua John Moore (1790-1864), a grazier and large owner of land by occupation, was born to John Moore, yeoman farmer, at Horningsea, Cambridgeshire, England.

Ľudovít Štúr

In 1846, Štúr got to know the yeoman Ostrolúcky family in Zemianske Podhradie (Nemesváralja), who later helped him to become a deputy in the Hungarian Diet in Pressburg.

Marston Bigot

Marston House and its grounds were used by the US Army during World War II, and were finally rescued from dereliction in 1984 by John and Angela Yeoman of Foster Yeoman Ltd, and used as the company headquarters.

Muggletonianism

Notable Muggletonian writers include Laurence Clarkson (1615 - 1667) an itinerant preacher born in Preston, Lancashire; John Saddington (1634? - 1679) a London sugar merchant, originally from Arnesby, Leicestershire; Thomas Tomkinson (1631 - 1710) a Staffordshire yeoman farmer who moved to London in the 1680s; and Isaac Frost (1793 - 1858) and Joseph Frost (1791 - 1857), brothers who ran the family metallurgy business in Clerkenwell, London.

Richard West, 7th Baron De La Warr

After West's death his widow married, before 1 November 1476, as his second wife, Nicholas Leventhorpe (died c.1505), esquire, of Bramham, West Yorkshire, King's Yeoman and Receiver of Pontefract, son of Geoffrey Leventhorpe.

Robert de Eglesfield

Robert is recorded, aged about 21, as a valettus or yeoman in the service of Sir Anthony Lucy, lord of Cockermouth.

Royal Navy Cyprus Squadron

The two ships of the squadron—Dasher and Pursuer—were fitted with Kevlar armour and the armament consisted of three FN MAG General Purpose Machine Guns, the ships' crews had one extra member (compared to the P2000s assigned to URNU duties) employed as a Gunners Yeoman, because of the weapons fitted.

Stephen Scandrett

Born about 1631, he was a son of the yeoman of the wardrobe of Charles I.

T. R. Shamanna

Recognizing his yeoman service to the society, the park adjoining the Bugle Rock in Bengaluru

Tauxe

It originated as a yeoman line in the 15th century, probably deriving its move to the bourgeousie from involvement in revenue operations ('taux' is French for 'tax' or 'tell' as in 'bank teller').

Thomas Lord

His father was a Roman Catholic yeoman, who had his lands sequestered for supporting the Jacobite rising in 1745 and afterwards he had to work as a labourer.

Thomas Yeoman

Thomas Yeoman (1709 or 1710 – 23 January 1781) was a millwright, surveyor and civil engineer who played a significant part in the early industrial revolution and became the first president of the first engineering society in the world, the Society of Civil Engineers, now known as the 'Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers'.

Venita Wolf

Venita Wolf (born August 25, 1943) is a retired American actress who appeared in the Star Trek episode "TOS: The Squire of Gothos" as Yeoman Teresa Ross.

Worshipful Company of Saddlers

In addition to admitting members as Freeman and Liveryman, the Saddlers' Company has the unique privilege of granting Yeoman status.

Yeoman Credit Racing

The first team to benefit from this commercial relationship was the British Racing Partnership, run by Ken Gregory and Alfred Moss, who were sponsored by Yeoman Credit Ltd. from August 1959.

Yeomen Warders

On 1 July 2007 a service woman, Moira Cameron, became the first female Yeoman Warder in the history of the institution.


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