Although the YELLAND family originates from Devon, we are only researching the descendants of THOMAS YELLAND who was born about 1577 in South Brent, Devon, the son of John Yelland and Margaret Cholwell. The family in South Brent spelt the name as Yolland and used the alias Welbrooke, possibly to avoid religious persecution. There are Yolland and Welbrooke families recorded in South Brent as early as 1525.
    Thomas married Mary Lyston on the 6 Aug 1599 in South Brent and around 1605, after the birth of his first three children, he moved to St.Stephen in Brannel, Cornwall. His descendants remained in the parish for the next 200 years, mainly as tenant farmers of the Boconnoc Estate, the principal landowner of the parish.
    From the early 1800’s onwards, with the growth of the china clay industry, many of the family moved into this new industry as labourers, clay agents and captains. Also from around this time, many Yellands moved to adjacent parishes and beyond, and some emigrated to America, Australia and South Africa. We are attempting to identify every descendant of Thomas.
    We have used the normal spelling of YELLAND for everyone for ease of indexing and searching. Any variations in spelling are annotated in the notes.

    For all other Devon YELLAND/YOLLAND families check out the website of Al Yelland at:-  www.yelland.ca

THE EARLY YELLAND FAMILY.
Tree charting the tenancies of farms passed down through the generations. With a map of St.Stephen Parish.

LETTERS.
Written by members of the Yelland family 1832-1919.

THE EXILES LAY.
A book of poetry written by Francis Yelland published 1855.

PAINTINGS.
By Raymond Dabb Yelland 1872-1893.

BUILDINGS.
Designed by William Raymond Yelland.