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I am carrying out research into my family's roots, on both my father's and my mother's side. So far I have the YATES branch back to THOMAS YATES born in Lancashire about 1769. THOMAS who was a cotton manufacturer in Manchester, married in St. Luke's Church, Bramcote, Nottingham to MARY HAWKSLEY on 2nd June 1789, he moved back to Manchester where his five children were born.

In finding the marriage of THOMAS YATES to MARY HAWKSLEY, the long lost reason for the HAWKSLEY name being used in every generation since has been solved. I have now researched the HAWKSLEY branch back to ROGER HAWKSLEY, who was born about 1635.

On my father's mother's side, I have the SIMPSON's back to 1754 in Skerton near Lancaster. Later they moved to Liverpool where my great grandfather WILLIAM SHAW SIMPSON was proprietor of businesses on the Landing Stage, a City Councillor, and prospective Liberal-labour Candidate for Preston in the 1882 Parliamentary Election, he died in 1883.

On my mother's family's side I have traced the ARCHERs back to 1729 in Leicestershire where they were farmers and millers. Later my great grandfather, JOSEPH ARCHER moved to Stone, in Staffordshire. Along the way, obviously many more surnames have been encountered as YATES', SIMPSONs and ARCHERs married into other families and these show up in the Individual Related Files below.

Any useful information members of the family think would be a useful addition to this site, should be sent to me via my e-mail address. Photos should be no more than about 80KB.

I have also published some of my music on the 'Sibelius' site and if anyone would like to see it AND HEAR IT, let me know and I will get the site to send it to your e-mail address.

• Hawksley Simpson Yates and Gladys Mary Archer (58 KB)
  Hawksley Simpson Yates (1909-1979) and Gladys Mary Archer (1908-1988) in their Engagement Day in 1932.
• William Simpson, aged about 30 (45 KB)
  William Simpson was born in Skerton, Lancaster on 18th June 1829 and worked for a time in his father's timber yard. This family moved to Liverpool where William was married in 1851. He was a prominent citizen in Liverpool and ran establishments on the Landing Stage. This photo was taken about 1860. He died in Liverpool on 16th June 1883.
• Mrs L. M. Simpson and five of her daughters. (58 KB)
  Mrs William Simpson had six daughters, but Lily died in 1890, the surviving five are shown in this photo. Standing left to right ~ Violet Pansy, Daisy Louisa and Jessamine Ivy; seated ~ Mrs Simpson, Flora Lee and Bonnie Maggie.
• Louisa Margaret Simpson (nee Swann) c1860 (58 KB)
  Louisa Margaret Simpson (nee Swann) was born in Liverpool on 5th October 1831. She married William Simpson on 15th July 1851 in St. Bride's Church and lived a long life, dying in Liverpool on 3rd December 1921.
• The S.S. "BALTIC" at the Liverpool Landing Stage (66 KB)
  The trans-Atlantic liner S.S. "BALTIC" on which Edgar Louis Lyon Yates emigrated to the USA in 1916. His family followed on the "ORDUNA" in 1919. The "BALTIC" is standing at the Landing Stage where the Simpson family lived from 1858 to 1939.
• Isidor Danby Simpson (1875-1900) (43 KB)
  Isidor Simpson, born in Liverpool on 17th January 1875 was the only Simpson boy to survive into adulthood. Little is known of him except that he was killed at Frederikstad in South Africa (and buried there) during the Boer War on 16th October 1900. Previously he was involved in the fighting at the Relief of Ladysmith and Tugela Heights. In the 1970s his remains were re-interred in a Remembrance Garden.
• Mrs Hawksley~ancestor of George Yates (86 KB)
  This painting in oils dates from about 1780 and was possibly painted by John Raphael Smith. It is of Elizabeth HAWKSLEY (nee Fox), mother of Mary HAWKSLEY who married Thomas YATES. It was given to Hawksley Simpson Yates in 1927 by his relative, Mary Goodwin; two other paintings in the set were given to his cousins Gertrude Lloyd and Margaret Furze daughters of his aunt, Ethel Mountfort Corrin (nee Yates).
• Simpson Memorial Fountain (73 KB)
  The Simpson Memorial Fountain was erected in 1885 with the proceeds of a Public Fund. It will be found in the wall of St. Nicholas' Churchyard, Liverpool. In the 1970s it was renovated by the descendants of William Simpson and is now a Grade II listed structure.
• 'Harry' and Gladys Mary Archer (716 KB)
  This photograph of Robert Henry 'Harry' Archer with his sister Gladys Mary Archer, was taken in Llandudno, North Wales in 1915 shortly before he went to France. He was killed in action on 16th April 1918 in Belgium.
• Arthur Archer & Mary Ann Brown (55 KB)
  Arthur Archer was born in Earl Shilton, Leicestershire on 6th January 1870 and died in Llandudno in c1930. He married Mary Ann Brown in Stone Congregational Chapel on 26th October 1893, and this photo was taken on their Wedding Day. Mary Ann was born on 30th November 1871 in Stone, Staffordshire and died in Llandudno in 1940.
• Wedding of George Herbert Yates 1907 (59 KB)
  George Herbert Yates was the second eldest son of George John Yates and married the youngest daughter of William Shaw Simpson ~ Jessamine Ivy Simpson. The photo has the only known picture of Harriett Yates (nee Neale), George Herbert's mother.
• George Herbert Yates (1862-1912) (40 KB)
  George Herbert Yates was born on 12th June 1862 in Liverpool and died there on 4th April 1912. He married Jessamine Ivy Simpson in St. Luke's Church, Liverpool on 12th June 1907. They had one child, Hawksley Simpson Yates born in 1909.
• Jessamine Ivy Simpson (1871-1947) (44 KB)
  Jessamine Ivy was the youngest daughter of William & Louisa Simpson. After the death of George Herbert, she was postmistress at New Brighton before buying Four Oaks Hotel, in Llandudno. She was born on the Landing Stage, Liverpool on 3rd December 1871 and died in Penrhyn Bay, North Wales in 1947.
• Four Oaks Hotel, Llandudno - late 1920s (60 KB)
  After Jessamine Ivy Simpson Yates had left New Brighton, she bought Four Oaks Hotel in Llandudno, which she owned for over half a century. Outings were frequently arranged for the guests and the photo shows a charabanc ready to leave. During WWII, half the hotel was used as convalescence for army officers before returning to the 'front'.

• Streets & Waterfront of 1825 Liverpool [site in making]
• My Music

David Anthony Hawksley Yates
31 Burnside, Rolleston on Dove
Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire DE13 9DN
Great Britain-England
01283 815 343
d.a.h.yates@ntlworld.com

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