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Subject: [YEA] Dorset Branch & 1865 Harrod's Directory
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 22:23:21 EST

Hello Yearsley Researchers:

I found the following Yearsley entries in the J. G. Harrods 1865
Directory of Dorsetshire ( purchased from Rod Neep's site
archivecdbooks.com). Brothers James, John and Cornelius are in the commercial
sections.

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James:

Posting Houses:
Antelope - James Yearsley, Cornhill Steet
Kings Arms - William Manley, High East street (The Kings Arms is written
about in Thomas Hardy's 'The Mayor of Casterbridge')

James Yearsley - agent to the Great Western company

Yearsley, James, Antelope Family and Commercial Hotel, Posting-house and
Excise office, Cornhill Dorchester

Yearsley, James, Burdon Family Hotel and posting establishment,
Esplanade Weymouth
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John my 3ggrandfather:

Yearsley, John, butcher & cheese factor, 23 High East street Dorchester

Yearsley John, grocer & butcher, Dorchester House, King street Weymouth

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Cornelius:

Yearsley Cornelius, Red Lion Family & Commercial hotel and posting
establishment, wine & spirit merchant, maltster, brewer, &c, and agent by
appointment to the London and South-Western Railway Company, West st., and
North street Wareham

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Fascinating finds!!


Tom Hipp

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