My Gt. Gt. Grandfather was James Yarrow and he was the third child of publican and farmer, John Yarrow and the first child with his second wife Elizabeth Jeffery.
During the early 1850's, his mother was the publican of "The Wheat Sheaf" in Little Thetford and his half-brother, Owen Yarrow, was the publican of "The Three Horseshoes", also in Little Thetford. Owen Yarrow is noted on the 1861 Census with his family and also their House Servant, a Miss. Mary Gothard of Witcham, Cambridgeshire. Seven years later, James married Mary and they lived opposite The Three Horseshoes pub.
James Yarrow died in late October 1930 and to add to the distress that his wife, Mary would have suffered, on the 5th November (Guy Fawke's Night), only a few days later, a stray firework landed on the thatched roof of their family home and burnt it down to the ground. Mary died the following February.
Born:
1846 at Little Thetford, Cambridgeshire.
Died:
October 1930, Little Thetford, Cambridgeshire.
Buried:
30th October 1930, Little Thetford, Cambridgeshire.