Elizabeth Yeardley

The three children of George and Temperance Yeardley (Including Elizabeth) appear to have been still living in 1630 when George's brother Ralph sued Temperance's widower Francis West. See p. 102, "Sir George's three children."

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Temperance Flowerdew survived a hurricane at sea and ate rats for dinner, and she arrived in Jamestown in August 1609, just in time for the winter famine that followed. She lived through that harrowing winter, called the “Starving Time,” when over 80 percent of Jamestown’s residents died of sickness, disease, or starvation. (If she was married to Richard Barrow at all, he probably perished then and left her an eligible widow.)

In 1613, Temperance married Captain George Yeardley. He became one of the wealthiest men in Virginia. The couple had three (or four?) children: Elizabeth in 1615, Argoll in 1617, John(?) in 1620, who died relatively young, and (Col.) Francis in 1623.

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By his will, made on 12 Oct. 1627, Yeardley left his plate, linen, and household stuff to his wife, Temperance (born West), and ordered his notes, debts, servants, and ‘negars’ to be sold, and the moneys therefrom to be divided into three parts—one for his widow, one for his elder son Argall, and the third to be divided between his daughter Elizabeth and his younger son Francis, who migrated about 1650 into what is now North Carolina, where he traded with and evangelised the natives.

An elaborate table of Yeardley's descendants, drawn up by T. T. Upshur, was reprinted from the ‘American Historical Magazine’ in October 1896. AncestryImage

[New England Hist. and Geneal. Regist. January 1884; Brown's Genesis of United States; Neill's Virginia Carolorum, Albany, 1886, pp. 47 sq.; Stith's Hist. of Virginia, 1747, passim; Smith's Governors of Virginia, Washington, 1893, Nos. xv. xviii. xx.; Drake's Making of Virginia, p. 62; Doyle's American Colonies, Virginia; Anderson's Hist. of the Colonial Church; Hotten's Lists of Emigrants to America; Cal. State Papers, Colonial, Amer. and W. Indies, 1574–1660, and Addenda, passim.]

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There is no proof that Elizabeth Yeardley, daughter of Governor Sir George Yeardley & Temperance West, Lady Yeardley, married Maj. Joseph Croshaw. None of the scholarly books on either the Yeardley or the Croshaw families make this claim. It used to be claimed in the Wikipedia article on Joseph Croshaw but, when the claim was shown to be unproven, the Wiki article was edited, showing an unnamed first wife.

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From Martha W. McCartney, Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary, p 775:

Elizabeth Yeardley (Yardley). Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir George and Lady Temperance Flowerdue Yeardly, was born in Virgnia around 1619 and on February 16, 1624, was residing in Jamestown (1) with her parents, brother Argoll, and the family's servants. The Yeardleys were still in Jamestown on January 24, 1625, at which time Elizabeth was age 6. The Yeardly children lost their father in 1627 and their mother (who had remarried) in December 1628. Elizabeth stood to inherit a sixth of her late father's estate, the bulk of which was in the hands of her uncle Ralph Yeardly, who lived in England (CBE 38, 54; MEY 726)."

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Elizabeth Yeardley 1st wife of Joseph Croshaw

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"... the information regarding the marriage of Elizabeth Yeardley (or Yardley) and Joseph Croshaw seems to have sprung from the imagination of one John Monahan of Charlottesville, VA in a letter to the Huguenot Society of Manikin Town. What his connection to the Dumases and Croshaws is unknown. I have always regarded this letter with a grain of salt; his wife was the woman who claimed to be "Anastasia Romanov," daughter of Nicholas and Alexandra, and whose claims proved false. ..."