Skyrme family history and one-name study website
Description: The website of the one-name study of the surname Yardy and variants Yardey, Yarday etc.
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This is the one-name study website for the surname Yardy and its variants (Yarday, Yardey, Yeardye etc.). A one-name study is a project that researches all occurences of a name, rather than the family tree of one particular family. Our research therefore covers the stories of Yardys across the world. If you are a Yardy or interested in finding out about them, then this website is for you. I encourage you to submit information so that this can become a collaborative venture.
This study was started by me - David Skyrme (you can see my profile here) - when restarting in earnest the research of my own family tree in 2010. With an unusual name like Skyrme I was able to find a lot of material about the Skyrmes of Pembrokeshire. I have documented this and published the first output on the Skyrme family website at www.skyrme.info .
Now it happens that my maternal grandmother's name was Yardy, and to my surprise I find that it is a surname that is three time rarer than Skyrme. It is as a result of my researching Yardys that I embarked in mid-2012 on writing The Yardys of The Fens (in Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire and Norfolk). This is still work in progress but as a result I have been in touch with other Yardys and descendants of Yardys, and so registered the Yardy surname as my One-Name Study with The Guild of One-Name Studies in Febru
Skyrme family history and one-name study website