Issue 9, Winter 1994
"HAVE A COOL YULE"
LANARK:
From: Wishaw life and labour in a Lanarkshire Industrial Community
On May day 1868, John Yuille, described as being about 11 years of age, met his death in Muirhouse pit. the boy, a pony driver, was busy taking empty hutches to the coal face when part of the roof above the underground road caved in upon him. He died within an hour of being carried home.(p65)
John YUILLE, the son of John and Margaret (QUINTON) YUILLE, was born 25 May 1857, New Ferme, Rutherglen and died Main Street, Wishaw.
John YUILLE was the son of John and Jean (BAIN) YUILLE and was born 3 August 1832, Rutherglen. He was a coal miner and was deceased by 1868. He married 5 October 1855, Rutherglen to Margaret Quinton, daughter of James and Margaret (FERGUSON) QUINTON.
Children: Margaret b.20 July 1855 Old Monkland, Lanark
John b. 25 May 1857 Rutherglen d. 1868, Lanark
Jeannie Bain 26 May 1859 Cambusnathan, Lanark
Mary b.19 May 1861 Cambusnathan, Lanark
Perthshire:
John YULE married Warburton BAXTER 26 October 1765, Kilmadock, Perthshire. They had two children:
Warburton b. 10 August 1766, Kilmadock
John b. 1 May 1768, Kilmadock
It would appear that this is the John YULE who married Jean WATSON 1796 Stirling since they did have a daughter Warburton. Warburton is a name which only seems to be in this YULE family.
Kilmadock Parish is 8 miles north west of the town of Stirling.
Notes:
Mickey ROONEY (Joe YULE jr.) from his book LIFE IS TOO SHORT
Joseph YULE jr. was born 23 September 1920 at 57 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn, New York in the Greenport area of Brooklyn. In his autobiography he mentions that his father was Joseph Ninian YULE and he was born in Edinburgh. He came to the US at the age of 6 years. He married Nell (Brown) Carter and they worked the vaudeville circuit. Joe jr. joined them on stage when he was 17 months old. Joseph sr. died 13 March 1950 and is buried in the Forest Lawn Cemetery, Los Angeles next to Wallace Beery.
Tasmania was known as Van Diemen's Land. The administration of justice was extreme until law courts were established in 1816. In 1822, Launceston was described as a place of "ignorance, blasphemy, drunkenness, adultery, and vice of every description which abound in it, ..every effort should be made to send more missionaries". Rev. John Youl came here to preach in a small wooden building which was used during the week as a police office and in front of the building were the public stocks which were used frequently as punishment for inebriates. Women could be sentenced to twelve hours in these stocks where they could be gaze at and jeered by passer-byes.
John YOUL, son of John YOUL, was born 1777, Epsom, Surrey, England, He died March 1827, Symmons Plains, Perth, Tasmania. He is buried in the St. John's Cemetery, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. John was described as a short lean and active man of honourable character. (p78)
He married 31 January 1810, Parameter, New South Wales, Australia, to Jane LODER, daughter of Sergeant George LODER.
In 1798, John YOUL sailed from England for the South Pacific however he was captured by the French and returned to England via Lisbon arriving back on 12 October 1799. Along with other members of the London Missionary Church Society, he sailed for Australia on 5 May 1800 and arrived at Port Jackson 20 November 1800. He remained in New South Wales as an assistant preacher at Toongabbie, Kissing Point and Hawkesbury settlement. John continued his missionary journey to Tahiti. However the Tahiti natives were hostile causing bloodshed and making the missionaries in grave danger so they were withdrawn by the church. According to his family he was captured by cannibals and in ordered to be released had to shave thirty of his captors without damaging their skin, which he did. The family still have the razor (2).
He arrived in Sydney, Australia in 1807 and became a teacher and assistant chaplain at Windsor. He worked without pay as a lay reader and schoolmaster for the Presbyterian Ebenezer Church at Portland Head on the Hawkesbury River. The Ebenezer Church is claimed by the Presbyterians to be the oldest church in Australia. In 1813, he returned to England and was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Chester 15 March, 1815, and in June was ordained as Priest by the Bishop of London. He was appointed to the post of chaplain at Dalrymple on the island of Tasmania and returned to New South Wales January 1816. However it seems for he was first assigned to work as a chaplain and schoolmaster in Liverpool, New South Wales. In January 1819, he arrived at Port Dalrymple and made a tour of the area. It is reported he married forty-one couples and baptized sixty-seven children on this tour.
Launceston consisted of 279 free settlers and military, 306 prisoners in the government employ, 146 assigned or ticket-holders, thirty females and a further thirty-nine in goal (prison)(2). Transportation of convicts to Tasmania came to an end May 1853. In November 1819 he settled in the Government Cottage, Launceston. By September 1821 a parsonage had been built for him in George Town and he moved there although he was required to return to Launceston twice each year. It is mentioned that he would march around the settlement in his canonical robes beating an iron drum hung from a post with a wooden mallet to call the people to his worship services.
Two hundred acres of land was supposed to be set aside in each township for the minister and the schoolmaster however this was not always done. John did receive 400 acres of land about twelve miles from Launceston near Gilbon's Farm, and also a grant of 700 acres on the Esk River. He became a successful breeder of both sheep and cattle at Symmons Plains about 30K south of Launceston.
In 1824, he arranged for the construction of the St. John's Church in Launceston. He opened the church for services 16 December, 1825 although the church was far from finished. The bricks were made with convict labor from clay across the street from the church. This left a large hole on the property for years before a park was planned there. In 1831 the following was written "On Sunday there was only St. John's church to go to, at which there was a nice congregation, consisting principally of officers of the Imperial Service, but during the service there was a constant interruption from the clanking of chains by the prisoners in the gallery above".
John Youl died of asthma brought on by a bad cold.
His last duty was to attend to the scaffolding
for some men to be hanged upon.
John was the first person to be buried in the
Cypress Street later named St. John's Cemetery.
(1) The Story of Port Dalrymple, Life and Work in Northern Tasmania)
(2) John Youl the Immigrant 1803-1882)
(3. History of Tasmania James Fenton, 1884)
Children:
(i) James Arndell b. 28 Dec. 1811, d..1904
John b.1812 d. 1871
Jane b.1813 Symmons Plains
William b.1817 d.1870
Elizabeth b.1819 m.James Webster
(ii) Richard b. 8 Dec. 1821 d. 1896
Charlotte b.1823 d. 19 September 1905, Perth.
(iii) George b.1825
(iv) Ebenezer b. 26 May 1827 d. 1900
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(i) James Arndell YOUL, son of John and Jane (LODER) YOUL was born 28 December 1811, at Cadi, New South Wales. He died 5 June 1904, Waratah House, Claphan Park. He is buried at Norwood Cemetery.
James married 9 July 1839, Clarendon, Tasmania, to Eliza COX, daughter of William COX. She died 4 January 1881. James married 30 Sep. 1882 to Charlotte WILLIAMS, daughter of Richard WILLLIAMS of Philipville, Belgium and the widow of William ROBERTSON of Caldecott House, Clapham Park.
James was educated in a private school near Romford, Essex, England. After the death of his father, he inherited the property at Symmons Plains and he became the county magistrate. In 1854, he returned to England and from 1861 to 1863, he served as agent for Tasmania in London. He was the honorary secretary and treasurer of the Australian Association in London. He was one of the founders of the Royal Colonial Institute. He was instrumental in the introduction of salmon and trout into the rivers of Tasmania. James discovered the proper method of shipping the fish eggs and had 100,000 salmon and 3,000 trout eggs shipped on the Norfolk clipper ship. He was also responsible for shipping salmon eggs to New Zealand.
In 1866, he was awarded a gold medal from the Society d'Acclimatation and in 1868, a medal from the Aclimatisation Society of Victoria. In 1874, he was made C.M.G. and K.C.M.G. in 1891.
(Australian Dictionary of Biography 1851-1890 vol. 6)
Children:
Harry b.1841 d.1876 m. Emma MARTIN -5children
Jane b. 1842 m. William ORD -2 children
Charles b. 1843 d.1906 m. Lochina FLEXMORE -3 children
Rebecca b. 1845 m. Arthur CARPMAEL -3 children
Alfred b.1849 m. Margaret MANSELL and Annette WIGAN
Ann b. 1851
Emily b.1853
Luisa b.1851
Grace b.1854
Florence Nightingale b. 1856
Cecil James b. 1857 m. Mary MacMichael - 5 children
(ii) Richard YOUL, son of Rev. John and Jane (LODER) YOUL, was born 3 December 1821, George Town, and died 6 August 1897, Melbourne. He is buried in the Heidelberg Cemetery Victoria.
Richard married 15 September 1855 to Sarah Ann MARTIN daughter of Dr. Robert MARTIN of Heidelberg. She died 8 January 1881 Melbourne and is buried in Heidelberg Cemetery, Victoria.
Richard was educated in England and obtained his MD at St. Andrew's University in 1844. He studied in Paris, London and Edinburgh before settling in Melbourne. He became acting coroner for Melbourne. In 1857, he was accused of helping John Price (who was murdered) to conceal injuries and the cause of deaths from the maltreatment of convicts. He was reputed to have conducted over 12,000 inquests. His interested in accidental deaths , led to various safer working conditions such as nets under ship's gangways, and improvements in sanitary conditions in public institutions. He was the founder and physician of the Victorian Infant Asylum and official visitor to industrial schools, lunatic asylums etc.
He believed in flogging, He also felt that parents should be punished for failing to control their children and that the majority of mothers were unfit for their role.
(Australian dictionary of biography 1857-1890 vol. 6)
He had nine children.
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(iii) George YOUL son of John and Jane (LODER) YOUL was born 1825 Launceston. In 1847, he settled in Quamby near Woolsthorpe, Victoria. He later sold the property.
(John Youl The Immigrant 1803-1882 p89)
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iv Ebenezer YOUL son of John and Jane (LODER) YOUL was born 28 April 1827 St. John's, Launceston and died 1 February, 1900 Yambreth, Victoria. He married 1848, Tasmania to Hannah BONNEY.
(Index of Deaths from Examiner Newspaper, Launceston)
Ebenezer Youl obtained land near Yambuk/Yambreth, Victoria and became a well known grazier there. The family still owns the land.
Children: William Joseph b.1850 m. Ellen Huntley
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We will continue with this family in another edition of the newsletter.
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John YOUL of Australia and descendent of John Yool/Yule/Yuil of the town of Stirling suggests that this family may have come from Scotland and been related. There is no evidence that this YOUL family ever came from Scotland. There were many Youl, Ewell, and Yule families in the south of England and have been since records began to be kept. The Youl spelling seems to have been an English form of Yule and it is not often in Scotland.
He also mentioned the Amoral Family Crest which would seem to link all YOUL families with the YUILLES of Dumbarton/ East Lothian. Members of this YUILLE family never lived in Perthshire/Stirlingshire.
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Issue 9, Winter 1994
"HAVE A COOL YULE"
LANARK:
From: Wishaw life and labour in a Lanarkshire Industrial Community
On May day 1868, John Yuille, described as being about 11 years of age, met his death in Muirhouse pit. the boy, a pony driver, was busy taking empty hutches to the coal face when part of the roof above the underground road caved in upon him. He died within an hour of being carried home.(p65)
John YUILLE, the son of John and Margaret (QUINTON) YUILLE, was born 25 May 1857, New Ferme, Rutherglen and died Main Street, Wishaw.
John YUILLE was the son of John and Jean (BAIN) YUILLE and was born 3 August 1832, Rutherglen. He was a coal miner and was deceased by 1868. He married 5 October 1855, Rutherglen to Margaret Quinton, daughter of James and Margaret (FERGUSON) QUINTON.
Children: Margaret b.20 July 1855 Old Monkland, Lanark
John b. 25 May 1857 Rutherglen d. 1868, Lanark
Jeannie Bain 26 May 1859 Cambusnathan, Lanark
Mary b.19 May 1861 Cambusnathan, Lanark
Perthshire:
John YULE married Warburton BAXTER 26 October 1765, Kilmadock, Perthshire. They had two children:
Warburton b. 10 August 1766, Kilmadock
John b. 1 May 1768, Kilmadock
It would appear that this is the John YULE who married Jean WATSON 1796 Stirling since they did have a daughter Warburton. Warburton is a name which only seems to be in this YULE family.
Kilmadock Parish is 8 miles north west of the town of Stirling.
Notes:
Mickey ROONEY (Joe YULE jr.) from his book LIFE IS TOO SHORT
Joseph YULE jr. was born 23 September 1920 at 57 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn, New York in the Greenport area of Brooklyn. In his autobiography he mentions that his father was Joseph Ninian YULE and he was born in Edinburgh. He came to the US at the age of 6 years. He married Nell (Brown) Carter and they worked the vaudeville circuit. Joe jr. joined them on stage when he was 17 months old. Joseph sr. died 13 March 1950 and is buried in the Forest Lawn Cemetery, Los Angeles next to Wallace Beery.
Tasmania was known as Van Diemen's Land. The administration of justice was extreme until law courts were established in 1816. In 1822, Launceston was described as a place of "ignorance, blasphemy, drunkenness, adultery, and vice of every description which abound in it, ..every effort should be made to send more missionaries". Rev. John Youl came here to preach in a small wooden building which was used during the week as a police office and in front of the building were the public stocks which were used frequently as punishment for inebriates. Women could be sentenced to twelve hours in these stocks where they could be gaze at and jeered by passer-byes.
John YOUL, son of John YOUL, was born 1777, Epsom, Surrey, England, He died March 1827, Symmons Plains, Perth, Tasmania. He is buried in the St. John's Cemetery, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. John was described as a short lean and active man of honourable character. (p78)
He married 31 January 1810, Parameter, New South Wales, Australia, to Jane LODER, daughter of Sergeant George LODER.
In 1798, John YOUL sailed from England for the South Pacific however he was captured by the French and returned to England via Lisbon arriving back on 12 October 1799. Along with other members of the London Missionary Church Society, he sailed for Australia on 5 May 1800 and arrived at Port Jackson 20 November 1800. He remained in New South Wales as an assistant preacher at Toongabbie, Kissing Point and Hawkesbury settlement. John continued his missionary journey to Tahiti. However the Tahiti natives were hostile causing bloodshed and making the missionaries in grave danger so they were withdrawn by the church. According to his family he was captured by cannibals and in ordered to be released had to shave thirty of his captors without damaging their skin, which he did. The family still have the razor (2).
He arrived in Sydney, Australia in 1807 and became a teacher and assistant chaplain at Windsor. He worked without pay as a lay reader and schoolmaster for the Presbyterian Ebenezer Church at Portland Head on the Hawkesbury River. The Ebenezer Church is claimed by the Presbyterians to be the oldest church in Australia. In 1813, he returned to England and was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Chester 15 March, 1815, and in June was ordained as Priest by the Bishop of London. He was appointed to the post of chaplain at Dalrymple on the island of Tasmania and returned to New South Wales January 1816. However it seems for he was first assigned to work as a chaplain and schoolmaster in Liverpool, New South Wales. In January 1819, he arrived at Port Dalrymple and made a tour of the area. It is reported he married forty-one couples and baptized sixty-seven children on this tour.
Launceston consisted of 279 free settlers and military, 306 prisoners in the government employ, 146 assigned or ticket-holders, thirty females and a further thirty-nine in goal (prison)(2). Transportation of convicts to Tasmania came to an end May 1853. In November 1819 he settled in the Government Cottage, Launceston. By September 1821 a parsonage had been built for him in George Town and he moved there although he was required to return to Launceston twice each year. It is mentioned that he would march around the settlement in his canonical robes beating an iron drum hung from a post with a wooden mallet to call the people to his worship services.
Two hundred acres of land was supposed to be set aside in each township for the minister and the schoolmaster however this was not always done. John did receive 400 acres of land about twelve miles from Launceston near Gilbon's Farm, and also a grant of 700 acres on the Esk River. He became a successful breeder of both sheep and cattle at Symmons Plains about 30K south of Launceston.
In 1824, he arranged for the construction of the St. John's Church in Launceston. He opened the church for services 16 December, 1825 although the church was far from finished. The bricks were made with convict labor from clay across the street from the church. This left a large hole on the property for years before a park was planned there. In 1831 the following was written "On Sunday there was only St. John's church to go to, at which there was a nice congregation, consisting principally of officers of the Imperial Service, but during the service there was a constant interruption from the clanking of chains by the prisoners in the gallery above".
John Youl died of asthma brought on by a bad cold.
His last duty was to attend to the scaffolding
for some men to be hanged upon.
John was the first person to be buried in the
Cypress Street later named St. John's Cemetery.
(1) The Story of Port Dalrymple, Life and Work in Northern Tasmania)
(2) John Youl the Immigrant 1803-1882)
(3. History of Tasmania James Fenton, 1884)
Children:
(i) James Arndell b. 28 Dec. 1811, d..1904
John b.1812 d. 1871
Jane b.1813 Symmons Plains
William b.1817 d.1870
Elizabeth b.1819 m.James Webster
(ii) Richard b. 8 Dec. 1821 d. 1896
Charlotte b.1823 d. 19 September 1905, Perth.
(iii) George b.1825
(iv) Ebenezer b. 26 May 1827 d. 1900
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(i) James Arndell YOUL, son of John and Jane (LODER) YOUL was born 28 December 1811, at Cadi, New South Wales. He died 5 June 1904, Waratah House, Claphan Park. He is buried at Norwood Cemetery.
James married 9 July 1839, Clarendon, Tasmania, to Eliza COX, daughter of William COX. She died 4 January 1881. James married 30 Sep. 1882 to Charlotte WILLIAMS, daughter of Richard WILLLIAMS of Philipville, Belgium and the widow of William ROBERTSON of Caldecott House, Clapham Park.
James was educated in a private school near Romford, Essex, England. After the death of his father, he inherited the property at Symmons Plains and he became the county magistrate. In 1854, he returned to England and from 1861 to 1863, he served as agent for Tasmania in London. He was the honorary secretary and treasurer of the Australian Association in London. He was one of the founders of the Royal Colonial Institute. He was instrumental in the introduction of salmon and trout into the rivers of Tasmania. James discovered the proper method of shipping the fish eggs and had 100,000 salmon and 3,000 trout eggs shipped on the Norfolk clipper ship. He was also responsible for shipping salmon eggs to New Zealand.
In 1866, he was awarded a gold medal from the Society d'Acclimatation and in 1868, a medal from the Aclimatisation Society of Victoria. In 1874, he was made C.M.G. and K.C.M.G. in 1891.
(Australian Dictionary of Biography 1851-1890 vol. 6)
Children:
Harry b.1841 d.1876 m. Emma MARTIN -5children
Jane b. 1842 m. William ORD -2 children
Charles b. 1843 d.1906 m. Lochina FLEXMORE -3 children
Rebecca b. 1845 m. Arthur CARPMAEL -3 children
Alfred b.1849 m. Margaret MANSELL and Annette WIGAN
Ann b. 1851
Emily b.1853
Luisa b.1851
Grace b.1854
Florence Nightingale b. 1856
Cecil James b. 1857 m. Mary MacMichael - 5 children
(ii) Richard YOUL, son of Rev. John and Jane (LODER) YOUL, was born 3 December 1821, George Town, and died 6 August 1897, Melbourne. He is buried in the Heidelberg Cemetery Victoria.
Richard married 15 September 1855 to Sarah Ann MARTIN daughter of Dr. Robert MARTIN of Heidelberg. She died 8 January 1881 Melbourne and is buried in Heidelberg Cemetery, Victoria.
Richard was educated in England and obtained his MD at St. Andrew's University in 1844. He studied in Paris, London and Edinburgh before settling in Melbourne. He became acting coroner for Melbourne. In 1857, he was accused of helping John Price (who was murdered) to conceal injuries and the cause of deaths from the maltreatment of convicts. He was reputed to have conducted over 12,000 inquests. His interested in accidental deaths , led to various safer working conditions such as nets under ship's gangways, and improvements in sanitary conditions in public institutions. He was the founder and physician of the Victorian Infant Asylum and official visitor to industrial schools, lunatic asylums etc.
He believed in flogging, He also felt that parents should be punished for failing to control their children and that the majority of mothers were unfit for their role.
(Australian dictionary of biography 1857-1890 vol. 6)
He had nine children.
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(iii) George YOUL son of John and Jane (LODER) YOUL was born 1825 Launceston. In 1847, he settled in Quamby near Woolsthorpe, Victoria. He later sold the property.
(John Youl The Immigrant 1803-1882 p89)
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iv Ebenezer YOUL son of John and Jane (LODER) YOUL was born 28 April 1827 St. John's, Launceston and died 1 February, 1900 Yambreth, Victoria. He married 1848, Tasmania to Hannah BONNEY.
(Index of Deaths from Examiner Newspaper, Launceston)
Ebenezer Youl obtained land near Yambuk/Yambreth, Victoria and became a well known grazier there. The family still owns the land.
Children: William Joseph b.1850 m. Ellen Huntley
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We will continue with this family in another edition of the newsletter.
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John YOUL of Australia and descendent of John Yool/Yule/Yuil of the town of Stirling suggests that this family may have come from Scotland and been related. There is no evidence that this YOUL family ever came from Scotland. There were many Youl, Ewell, and Yule families in the south of England and have been since records began to be kept. The Youl spelling seems to have been an English form of Yule and it is not often in Scotland.
He also mentioned the Amoral Family Crest which would seem to link all YOUL families with the YUILLES of Dumbarton/ East Lothian. Members of this YUILLE family never lived in Perthshire/Stirlingshire.
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Copies of all sources available from the editor.