Mr and Mrs J. S. J. Yates
(1808-1887 and 1821-1899)
31 May 1862

Volume 7, page 37, sitting number 8391.

[Identified in the Silvy daybooks as Mrs and Mrs J. S. J. Yates, this is Joseph St John Yates and his wife Emily Augusta Yates.]

Joseph St John Yates was the son of Joseph Yates of Peel Hall, Lancashire. He was baptised at St Andrew’s Church in Holborn on 16 November 1808.

He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple. By 1845 he was also a director of three different railway companies: the Manchester and Sheffield Railway; the Preston and Wyre Extension Railway; and the Lancashire and Yorkshire North-Eastern Railway. By 1851 he was a judge of the County Court in Cheshire.

On 30 March 1842 at Ashton-upon-Mersey he married Emily Augusta Scott, daughter of David Scott of Brotherton, Johnshaven, Aberdeenshire. Their marriage produced nine children.

When the census was taken in 1861, the family were living at Bradwell Road, Bradwell in Cheshire.

Mr Yates died, aged 78, on 2 March 1887 at Wellbank, Sandbach near Chester. He left an estate valued at £63,422.

Mrs Yates died, aged 79, on 17 December 1899, also at Sandbach.