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Yeamans Hall (1875)
Yeamans is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Annie Yeamans (1835–1912), American actress *John Yeamans (1611–1674), English colonial administrator *Robert Yeamans (died 1643), English merchant *Jennie Yeamans (1862–1906), Australian-born child actress and singer See also *Yeaman {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Yeamans
Annie Griffiths Yeamans (November 19, 1835 – March 3, 1912) was a 19th-century character actress, appearing in many Harrigan and Hart productions.(4 March 1912)Annie Yeamans Dies; Acted for 66 Years ''The New York Times'' Biography Yeamans was born on the Isle of Man on November 19 1835, moving as a young child to Australia to start her theatrical career in 1845. Performer Yeaman was a known performer, who worked in the United States and Australia chiefly. She worked first as bareback rider in the circus in Australia and married her husband Edward "Ned" Yeamans, (an American clown), touring in Asia together. Her first acting role was in 1868 'playing Cinderella at the old New York Theatre'. She visited the United States in 1865, and briefly in Yokohama in Japan, where she was joined by Willie Edouin in 1866.(4 March 1912)Annie Yeamans Dies; Acted for 66 Years ''The New York Times'' In San Francisco in the late 1860's she became a widow, travelling to New York with her children, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Yeamans
Sir John Yeamans, 1st Baronet (bapt. 28 February 1611 – 1674) was an English colonial administrator and planter who served as Governor of Carolina from 1672 to 1674. Contemporary descriptions of Yeamans described him as "a pirate ashore." Life Baptised on 28 February 1611 in Bristol, England, Sir John Yeamans was a younger son of John Yeamans, a brewer of Redcliffe, Bristol who died about 1645, and his wife Blanche Germain. The younger Yeamans was a colonel in the Royalist army during the English Civil War. In about 1650 Yeamans migrated to Barbados, and within a decade he had become a major landholder there (he had held land in Barbados since 1638) a colonel of the colonial militia, judge of a local court of common pleas, and by July 1660 he was serving on the Barbadian council. Carolina In the deteriorating economic conditions of the 1660s and 1670s many Barbadian planters sought better opportunities. In 1663 a number of planters in Barbados made arrangements with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Yeamans
Robert Yeamans or Yeomans (died 1643) was an English merchant of Bristol who in early 1643 plotted with other Royalists to aid in the capture of Bristol by the Royalists. The plot was discovered by the parliamentary governor Nathaniel Fiennes and Yeomans was tried as a traitor, found guilty by court-martial and executed. Early life Yeamans came of a numerous Bristol family, and was probably closely related to William Yeamans (1578–1632?), a graduate of Balliol College, Oxford, incumbent of St. Philip's, Bristol, where he was noted as a puritan, and from 1615 till his death prebendary of Bristol Cathedral. Robert Yeamans was a well-known merchant and councillor of Bristol, and in 1641–2 served as sheriff. He was royalist in his sympathies, and he obtained a commission from King Charles I of England to raise troops from Bristol, but in December, before he could accomplish the task, the city was occupied by a parliamentary force under the command of Colonel Essex. In February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennie Yeamans
Jennie Yeamans (born Eugenia Marguerite Yeamans; 1862 – 28 November 1906) was a child actress and singer popular in the 1870s and 1880s, and later a famous adult singer and actress. She was the younger sister of early silent film character actress Lydia Yeamans Titus and had another sister, Emily Yeamans, who died young. Of the three, Jennie was the most famous and successful right up to her death. Their mother was Annie Yeamans (1835–1912), a character actress in the Victorian era stage. Her father was Edward Yeamans (died 1866 or 1868), a circus clown. The Yeamans family came from Australia and toured China, Japan and Java in traveling shows before arriving in San Francisco in 1865. After arriving in America, Edward Yeamans died in 1866 or 1868. As an adult, Jennie appeared in a popular stage melodramas or musicals; one musical being ''Blue Jeans'' in 1890, which was later made into a 1917 silent film ''Blue Jeans'', starring Viola Dana.''Pictorial History of the American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |