Researching Ian Yeaman
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The name Ian means "God is gracious" and is of Scottish origin.
Records of Ian Yeaman on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Ian Yeaman and the Yeaman Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Yeaman Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Yeaman family tree.
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 454 people with the Yeaman surname in the UK? Yeaman is now ranked number 3613 for popularity in the UK. |
Yeaman Family History Databases
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Yeaman Forums
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Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Ian Yeaman. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Ian Yeaman
Ian Yeaman
Sir Ian David Yeaman (20 March 1889 – 28 February 1977) was an English solicitor.
He was the son of David Yeaman and Catherine, née Sanger. After schooling at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, he was admitted a solicitor in 1911; having joined the Gloucestershire Regiment in 1914, he was commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery and served in France from 1916 to 1918. On demobilisation, he became a partner at Rickerbys of Cheltenham. He served on the Law Society's council between 1936 and 1964 and was its Vice-President (1956–57) and then President (1957–58), for which service he was knighted in 1958.
He married Anne Doris Wood, the daughter of Sydney George Wood, in 1926 and then had two children before she died in 1975. On the death of her father in 1942, Ian and Anne Yeaman moved to his home, Moat House in Uckington. Sir Ian survived his wife, dying on 28 February 1977. After his death, the house passed to his son, Keith, but he sold it on, having settled with his own family in the Cotswolds.
Source: Ian Yeaman, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Yeaman
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