Issue #24 Fall 1998

Estella Yule Pryor, editor, PO Box 818, Gresham, OR 97030-1146, USA

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ROYAL NAVY



There were a number of Yules who served in the British Royal Navy in the 1800-1900's. One of the most interesting is John YULE of Devonshire.



John YULE was born around 1775. He joined the British Navy in 1793 and served until 1840. John was placed on the General Service Medal Roll in 1840. This was at the time of the Napoleonic Wars which were against France and Spain.



From 1793 until 1797 he was on the HMS Benbow as a Master. John was present at the retreat of Cornwallis. (The Trafalgar Roll, by Col. R.H. Mackenzie; Naval Inst. Press)

During 1797, he was made a lieutenant. This promotion would have given him his own sleeping quarters in an area with other officers, although his space would have been quite small. John would have had his own food supplies and meals would have been cooked for him by either the wardroom servants or his own personal servant. He most probably paid a treasurer who would have been the officer's caterer and in charge of their eating area or mess. There would have been an enclosure on the ship for livestock so they could have fresh meat, eggs and milk.

In 1798 he was promoted to the first Lieutenant of the HMS Alexander during the skirmishes and the blockade of the Nile River off the coast of Egypt. In this position he would have served as the president of the mess and presided over the meals. Mealtimes were the only chance the officers would be together. In the Battle of the Nile only four ships survived and over 5,000 men died or were lost at sea.

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By 1805, he was one of the Lieutenants on the HMS Victory. This promotion would have given John his own tiny sleeping cabin. The mess hall, where he would have his meals and any recreation activities, would have been a large room under the admiral's cabin. He would have been responsible for one work area such as the signaling or the gunnery detachments. Later in the year he was promoted to the commander of the ship. He would have had responsibility for the complete running of the ship.

The HMS Victory was classified as a flagship so would have had an admiral in charge. The admiral over John was Lord Horatio Nelson. However Nelson would not have had much to do with the day to day operations. The actual running of the ship would have been the responsibility of the captain, John Yule, and his team of lieutenants along with a crew of 850 men.



On 21 October 1805, the British Fleet commanded by Admiral Nelson met the combined fleet of the French and the Spanish Navies off the coast of Spain. During the Battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Nelson was hit during a shower of musket and pistol fire from the guns of the French ship Redoutable and died a few hour later. His body was returned to London and he laid in state in the Great Hall of the Greenwich Royal Hospital. On January 9,1806 there was a four hour state funeral and burial at St. Paul's Cathedral. John YULE carried the banneroll of lineage during the funeral.

John retired in 1835 and received a Greenwich Hospital Pension. He must have been injured in active service to be given this pension. The hospital at Greenwich was founded by William and Mary and was designed by Christopher Wren. It was built for the use of those sailors injured in active service. When a sailor was injured, he applied for a 'hurt certificate' which entitled him to a pension or admittance to the hospital. In 1873, the building was made into a training college for officers of the Royal Navy.



John YULE died on the 10th January 1840. The cause of death was apoplexy. He was living at the Squire Terrace in the parish of St. Andrews, Plymouth, Devon. His death certificate does not give any family information.

We believe that John married Rebecca Jane FRYAR b. 1808 Exeter, Devon, daughter of William FRYAR. On 22 January 1844, Rebecca Jane YULE, widow, married Henry MAYNE a widower, in the Parish Church of St. David's in Exeter, Devon. He was the son of William MAYNE and a Quarter Master for the 49th Regiment of foot.

Rebecca is on the 1881 census for Whistones Parish, Worcestershire as a widow.

Rebecca Jane FRYAR YULE MAYNE died in 1884.



NOTE: In 1758, the board of the British Admiralty commissioned the construction of a 100 gun ship. It was to be the largest ship ever commissioned and to be built at the Dockyard at Chatham, Kent. The ship cost 63,176 pounds and used over 2,000 oak trees. It was 227 feet long and speed in good weather was 8 knots. The HMS Victory was launched in 1765 but did not see service until the American War of Independence. In 1778, the ship was used to blockade French ships supplying the Americans during the war. It was taken out of service in 1812 and left to decay. In 1922 it was repaired and now can be visited at the Naval Museum in Portsmouth. The ship is to be refitted again by 2005 and the celebration for the bicentennial of the Battle of Trafalgar.





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OTHER ROYAL NAVY LISTINGS



Robert YULE: Lt. RN Illustrious Master and Mate on the HMS Penlope. He saw service throughout the Mediterranean Sea in 1800 and helped capture the French ship "Guillaume Tell". He saw service in Egypt from 8 March to 2 September 1801. He was at the siege and capture of Java, July to September 1811.



William YOULE: was an orderly on the HMS Cambridge (no date given)



Robert YULE: was a gunner on the HMS Heron and at the Battle of Algiers, 27 August 1816.





1851 CENSUS: Devonshire, England



Sidmore Parish:

Sarah YOUELL, aged 75, Naval Officer's wife, born Jamaica.



Wembworthy Crediton Parish:

Robert Alexander YULE, aged 39, Farm Bailiff, born Cruden, Aberdeenshire.

Reported with The Honorable Newton FELLOWS, landed proprietor of Hampshire.



NOTE:

Robert was born 26 September 1812, Cruden, son of Alexander YULE and Mary WATSON.





REGISTER OF DEEDS, 1668 Scotland



YUILL (including YOOL, YULLE, ZOWALL, ZUILL)

Andrew, farmer Braidwoidsyd

Bessie relict of Ephraim Melvill minister at Linlithgow

James in Hill

John, provost of Inveraray

Jonet spouse of William LAWRIE of Portsburgh

Nicoll in Inveraray younger

Nicoll notary, Inveraray

Partick in Over Bridgend

William, timber man in Leith.



Obituary:



Peacefully, at Morningfield Hospital, Aberdeen, on Tuesday, February 3, 1998, Maggie Jessie (nee BROWN) aged 90 years, wife of the late Reverend William YULE, late of Sherwood Parish church, Crief and latterly Kemnay Parish Church, dear sister and dearest aunt of the Eaton Family, cults. Funeral service at Rubislaw Parish Church, on Saturday, February 7, at 9.15 a.m. thereafter to Springbank Cemetery, to which all friends are respectfully invited.

(Aberdeen Press and Journal 5 Feb. 1998).



LIVERPOOL, Lancaster, England

1767 Second Directory; ZUILL, John, merchant, Cable Street

1769 Third Directory; ZUILL, John, merchant,. King Street

1773 Fourth Directory; ZUILL, John, merchant, King Street



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Burgesses of Aberdeen



ZUIL, Alexander, butcher, student at Aberdeen Grammar School, 21 Dec. 1627

ZUIL, Robert, servant to Sir James Learmond ex gratia, 31 Aug. 1629



Aberdeenshire to Australia:



From Union Chapel, Kemnay:

Abraham MUIL: and Barbara GRAY were married, 22 March 1827, by Rev. Wm. Lyon, minister. Abraham MUIL was a carter in Aberdeen; Barbara Gray daughter of John GRAY, resident Udney. Witnesses; John FRASER and William MACKIE.



In 1832, Barbara GRAY married George BROWN, carter. She was the widow of Abraham MUIL, late carter in Aberdeen. Witnesses; William BLAIR, cooper and Robert DAVIDSON, carter, both of Aberdeen.



This marriage was also registered 22 March 1827 St. Nicholas Parish, Aberdeen as Alexander YULE and Barbara GRAY both of this parish. The marriage of Barbara GRAY to George BROWN was registered 23 February 1832, Old Macher Parish, Aberdeen.



Alexander was the son of Francis YULE and Elizabeth HILL who were married 12 November 1792, in the parish of Kemnay, Aberdeen. Francis and family lived on the Farm at Whitton. They had nine children: Lamont b. 4 April 1796 Kemnay, d. 23 February 1869 Aberdeen, married 6 April 1819 to Alexander MILNE; John b. 4 April 1796 Kemnay, married 29 April 1826 St. Nicholas to Janet YEOMAN; Francis b. 31 July 1797 Kemnay and who is on the 1851 census for Norpeth, Northumberland, England; Anne b. 26 Feb. 1803 Kemnay and married Hugh SHERER; Abraham b. 26 February 1803 Kemnay died ca. 1831, married 22 March 1827 to Barbara GRAY; Peter b. 21 November 1809 Kemnay; Robert b. 21 November 1809 Kemnay, d. 17 March 1879, Aberdeen, married 15 March 1832 Old Macher to Barbara MATHIASON and 1839 to Ann THOMPSON; Charles b. ca. 1814 Kemnay, d. 19 June 1862 Aberdeen, married 22 December 1837 to Ann PAUL; George b. 22 August 1862 Aberdeen.



Alexander and Barbara (GRAY) YULE had two children Jane b. 13 November 1828, St. Nicholas Parish and John b. 24 June 1830 St. Nicholas Parish.



George and Barbara (GRAY YULE) BROWN and their family moved to Australian in 1838. John YULE changed his name to BROWN around 1870. He married Mary FOWLEY from Ireland and died 7 December 1886, Delungra, Australia.



(Wendy Kearney and Mrs. Godfree are researching this family)



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