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From: P. Freeman< >
Subject: Re: Yarboroughs
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 16:06:09 +0000 (GMT)

In article <>, diane singleton <> wrote:
>My ancestors were Richard and William Yarborough from Lincolnshire. They
>were friends to the king. They won a card game (the Yarborough hand was
>named after them)and the king gave them land in America as payment. They
>started over here and William died and was buried at sea. Richard is
>buried in Petersburg VA. He arrived here several years before the
>Mayflower. My question is, are there any Yarboroughs still in
>Lincolnshire or nearby?

Could be. I've just been looking through a collection of documents called
the Yarburgh Muniments at the Borthwick Institute in York (a wonderful
place) that were donated by, I believe, a Yorkshire landowning family
with extensive Lincolnshire estates.

Pete Freeman @ Leeds.

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