Yarnall Genealogy
Driving Forces Wm Penn Land Chester Co Aston

Yarnall Folks came from Worcestershire County
Earliest Documentation
In 1460 there was a window in St James church in the hamlet of Oddingly in the county of Worcestershire dedicated to a Yarnold couple. It is the earliest documented info we have. If we had been able to document ancestors from 1200 BC, 100 BC, 43 AD, 450 AD, 793 AD, or 1066 AD, we might be able to establish a more specific ethnicity. Since I have no documentation earlier than the 1400s, I claim we are English.
 Yarnall Name
The basic name of Arnold is found in the 1400s in England. "Ye" was affixed to Arnold meaning "the son of" just as "O" in Ireland and "Mc" in Scotland were used. So the name shifted from Arnold to Ye Arnold to Yearnolde to Yarnolde to Yarnold to Yarnall to Yarnell over the years.
Our 17th Century Documented Yarnall Line
At a parish in the hamlet of Martin Hussingtree were found Worcestershire County records of baptisms and weddings. One wedding listed in those records was dated 22 April 1648 for John Yarnall to Sarah Yarnall (cousin). The baptisms listed there did not include all of their children. A full list of those Yarnall family members is shown below.		 Hamlets in Worcestershire County Where Yarnall Folks Lived
Oddingley, Hadzor, Martin Hussingtree, Claines (or Cloynes), Grimley, and Norton are towns (called hamlets) where families with the last names of Yarnold, Yarnall, Yarnell, Yarnolde, Yarnoll, Yearnolde, Yarnald, and Yernoll lived. Hamlets details
Off to America on July 25 1683 for Religious Freedom on Penn's Land
Philip (age 19) came on the same ship with his brother Francis. With just personal luggage, he did not have to declare anything and he was not listed as one of passengers on the Bristol Comfort. They came as Quakers. They started with 100 acres.

Philip is in the direct ancestral line for my family.		 Francis (age 28) was listed on the manifest as being from Claines, England when he headed to America in May or July of 1683 on a sailing ship named Bristol Comfort.
On the right and left are some biographical excerpts from page 518 of a book titled "History of Delaware County" by Dr. George Smith. It was written in 1862. He did these biographical sketches for a number of the early Delaware County residents.

Initially I was under the impression that the Yarnall brothers were given 50 acres each if they cleared 10 acres of land and each built a cottage according to the land offering agreements established by William Penn.

Smith's account indicates it was rented land. There is documentation to show that Francis bought the land from George Maris.

NOTE: Delaware County is an area of the original Chester County.
By the time James II ruled England (1685) our branch of the Yarnalls was Americanized. We did not consider ourselves Anglo-Americans. We became Americans. This gibberish about African-Americans of today (2016) is nonsense. After you come to the USA you become an American citizen.
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