Researching Simon Yorke
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 957 people with the Yorke surname? In that year Yorke was ranked number 2630 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Simon means "he who hears" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Simon Yorke on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Simon Yorke and the Yorke Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 2275 people with the Yorke surname in the UK? Yorke is now ranked number 2174 for popularity in the UK. |
Yorke Genealogy Databases
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| Did you know that there are currently 3038 people with the Yorke surname in the USA? Yorke is ranked number 156 for popularity in the USA. |
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Simon Yorke
Simon Yorke (27 July 1771 – 12 December 1834) was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1793 to 1802. Yorke was the son of Philip Yorke of Erddig and his first wife Elizabeth Cust daughter of Sir John Cust, 3rd Baronet, and was born on 27 July 1771. He was educated at Eton College in 1784 and entered St John’s College, Cambridge, on 29 November 1788. He married Margaret Holland, daughter of John Holland of Terydan on 11 March 1807. Yorke was returned as Member of Parliament for Grantham on the united Brownlow and Rutland interest in a by election on 7 January 1793. The vacancy had arisen six months earlier, but as he was then under age, his father filled the seat in the meantime. No speech or vote of his is known. He was a lieutenant in the Wrexham yeomanry from 1795 to 1797. In the 1796 general election, he headed the poll at Grantham, but he declined to stand in 1802. He was High Sheriff of Denbighshire in 1807–8.
Yorke died on 12 December 1834.
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