FACHRS Ref: LYMA01 Researcher Name: Martin Allen Name: John Yelland Age in 1881 Census: 36 Source: - RG Number: RG11 Piece: 2218 Folio: 104 Page: 9 Reg. District: Tavistock Parish: Lydford County: Devon
Migration, Employment and Social Status
Police Constable Birth place: Cheriton Bishop, Devon Occupation of his father: Agricultural labourer
Information from each census about x and the household he lived in:
YEAR 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891
CENSUS HO107 Not found RG10 RG11 RG12
PIECE 1885 2090 2218 1751
FOLIO 615 40 104 62
PAGE 10 1 9 30
REG DIS Okehampton Totnes Tavistock Tavistock
SUB DIS Bratton Clovelly Paignton Tavistock
PARISH Drewesteignton Paignton Lydford Mary Tavy
ADDRESS Flood Collyend Police Station Blackdown
TOWN Drewesteignton Paignton Princetown Mary Tavy
COUNTY Devon Devon Devon Devon
RELATIONSHIP Son Head Head Head TO HEAD
AGE 6 26 36 46
OCCUPATION Farm Labourer Police Police Constable Constable
WIFE’s NAME Betsey Betsey Betsey
NO OF 3 (2b,1g) 7 (4b,3g) 3(1b,2g) CHILDREN
Is this a Police No Yes No House?
OTHER Twin boys Moved to MT 1892 moved to information 1882 Bere Alston Children born Paignton, Died 1900 Kingskerswell and Stoke Gabriel
Age at marriage? 22/3. He married Betsey Bailey in 1866 before joining police
Did he have any other employment before becoming a Policeman? Yes – farm labourer
Did he have any other employment after leaving the Police? No
Does he move to different locations as a policeman? Yes
Do you think his social status changed over the period of his life? Yes, from farm labourer.
Did he get promoted while in the Police? No
How does your Policeman fit this stereotype? He dealt with a double murder in Mary Tavy
The Community
What is the size and type of the community he would have been serving in 1881? Small Village plus prison
Can you answer the same questions for the other places he served in. Princetown, Mary Tavy 895, Bere Alston
Did the type of community he lived in change through his career? No, all rural villages.
Retirement
Did he retire? No
Did he get a pension? No? A year after his death his wife is living with married son “on own means”.
Family Connections
Did any other members of his family work in a Police Force? If so please give details. No
Trade Directory or other Sources:
YEAR
Newspaper (OR Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post or Plymouth Royal Cornwall Gazette OTHER SOURCE) and Cornish Advertiser
PAGE NUMBER 2 Oct 1878 24 Nov 1892
INFORMATION PC Yelland stationed at Stoke Gabriel (arson Double murder at Peter Tavy Yelland case) mentioned)
There are two PC John Yellands in Devon, apparently unrelated.
Dell, Simon, The Beat on West Dartmoor, Forest Publishing, 1997