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Yuill - Clydesdale, Scotland/ Boston, Ma/Truro, Nova Scotia

Yuill - Clydesdale, Scotland/ Boston, Ma/Truro, Nova Scotia

Anna Lennerton (View posts)
Posted: 8 Jun 2001 9:16AM GMT
I am trying to find any relatives that are decendants of James Yuill 1717 - March 1807 Married Jane Baily. Had two Children James Yuill 1752 - January 1811 married Eleanor Mahon and Jane Yuill 1757 - February 1828 married Thomas Gourley. Any information would be great. My grandparents lived in Old Barns, Nova Scotia.

Re: Yuill - Clydesdale, Scotland/ Boston, Ma/Truro, Nova Scotia

Posted: 25 Feb 2002 4:13AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: yuill/gourley
hello Anna,
my ancestor was Jane Yuill m. Thomas Gourley
thomas,thomas,thomas,charles,john,horace,phillip
If you were to write to the Historical Society in Truro Nova Scotia(Im sure there must be an email address) they have a lot of early genealogy for the Yuills. There is earlier info that traces them back into Scotland, and there is a gathering in Nova Scotia each year(at least there was) in July I believe. There is a Book, The HIstory of Colchester County, Nova Scotia(known as "The Miller Book" This includes much of the first three generations of the two children of james and jane(appropriately named james and jane) one had 11 off spring and the other (my ancestor jane) had 14 and most of them produced families. If you need more direction please feel free to email me. good luck,phil

Re: Yuill - Clydesdale, Scotland/ Boston, Ma/Truro, Nova Scotia

Posted: 7 May 2004 11:48PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 2 Mar 2006 8:41AM GMT
Hello cousin, I have tons of info on the yuills. Who were your
grandparents.? Where do you live? I live in Washington State

Re: Yuill - Clydesdale, Scotland/ Boston, Ma/Truro, Nova Scotia

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 10:59PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Yuill
I am trying to chase down a lead of a slightly different kind. I live in Scots Bay, Nova Scotia on the Bay of Fundy. The source of the place name has always been a bit of mystery and I am trying to track down the source of the story...which may well be James Yuill.

Israel Longworth writes that James Yuill, in an attempt to get supplies for the settlement, sailed for Boston but was driven ashore in the place now named Scots Bay....so called because he and some of his crew were originally from Scotland...and here is what the story from Eaton says...

Historical Note:
�In 1764, three or four families located at Scots Bay and began the present settlement there, among them people of the name of Andrews and Loomer. Tradition has it that shortly before this a vessel with some Scotch emigrants sailed up the Bay of Fundy, its passengers intending to settle at Cape D�Or. In a squall the vessel was driven ashore at the present Scots Bay, where she lay stranded, her passengers and crew, however, being saved, For some time the shipwrecked people wandered helplessly about, but at last they came on a solitary hunter. The man gave them food and led some of them down the mountain, but these soon returned to their first landing place. During the winter that followed, the Scotchmen made frequent journeys into the valley for food, but what became of them in the end we do not know. From the temporary residents the place got its names Scots Bay.�1

1 Eaton, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton, M.A., D.C.L., The History of Kings County, Nova Scotia, Heart of the Acadian Land, The Salem Press Company, 1910.

I think this may well have been James Yuill and his crew. Any more evidence I could get my hands on would be appreciated. This has been a mystery long enough. Yuill deserves his due if it was indeed him.

Thanks in advance,
Ian McKay
ian@amimcaky.com

Re: Yuill - Clydesdale, Scotland/ Boston, Ma/Truro, Nova Scotia

Posted: 22 Feb 2009 3:15PM GMT
Classification: Query
Sorry...I mistyped my e-mail

ian@amimckay.com

Re: Yuill - Clydesdale, Scotland/ Boston, Ma/Truro, Nova Scotia

Posted: 29 May 2012 5:56PM GMT
Classification: Query
I just read your post. My maternal grandmother was a Yuill, Cordelia Ruberta. She was born in Old Barns Nova Scotia her family originate in Clydesdale, Scotland.
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