RE: "King's Third Guards" 1812

From: "Chris Westmoreland"

If your Yellow ancestors migrated from somewhere in the Borders in the
17th century, they were unlikely to have used the Drover road, much
easier (and more logical) north - south routes existed through the
vale. I doubt that there was much of a distance Droving trade in the
17th century. The ability to grow enough fodder to over winter
substantial numbers of livestock, and therefore have any spare to
drive, only came about in the 18th century through Jethro Tull's
invention of the seed drill and Charles 'Turnip' Townsend's
introduction of crop rotation and the turnip. Without the stock to
drive, there would be no need for Drovers' roads. When big time
droving commenced, the Drovers used their more torturous routes to
avoid having to pay the turnpike fees and turnpikes didn't exist in
the 17th century. The traffic on the Drove road built up throughout
the 18th century, and peaked in the early 19th century.>

Yes, I've read some of the history of the drovers and the drove road
across the escarpment of the Hambleton Hills. I take your point but one
reason I suspected they might have come down the drove road is
because the Yellows/Yellowleys appear at Eaglescliffe, on the Yorks-Co
Durham border, earlier in the 17th century and I believe they were my lot
who subsequently ended up at Sutton-under-Whitestonecliffe because
the same names are repeated in the family. I have traced the line of the
drove road and I think it went through Eaglescliffe as well as along the tp
of Sutton Bank.

You may well be right that they came by another route, especially as
family legend (which I shall probably never prove) has it that the Yellows
were Border reivers and one Thomas Yellow or Yellowley had to get out
of Scotland rather quickly in the late 1500s or early 1600s. They were
certainly up to something because the will and inventory of one Yellow in
the early 1700s establishes that he was a horse dealer (thief?) and
money lender!

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