Author: Yeomans, Jane
Biography:
YEOMANS, Jane (1799-1857: ancestry.co.uk)
She was born in Smethwick and baptised on 9 July 1799 at Saint Phillips, Birmingham, the second of at least five children of Richard Yeomans (1765-1842) and his wife Sarah Oakes (1764-1858). Three sources confirm her blindness (from birth): an ms note in Poems on Various Subjects (1826), the title page of Verses on Slavery (1826?) which is only eight pages long, and the 1851 Census. Her father was the innkeeper of The Cape of Good Hope public house. On his death in 1842, he left her £200. Thereafter she lived with her mother at Dudley Road, All Saints, Birmingham. She died on 17 April 1757 and was buried on 22 April at All Saint’s, Hockley, Birmingham. She left an estate of under £200, with her brother Thomas as executor. Her mother died the following year and was buried in the same church. (ancestry.co.uk 24 Oct. 2020; findmypast.co.uk; Poems on Various Subjects [1826] Stanford University Library, Felton Collection, PR 4069.B35 [2]; Jane Yeoman [sic], Verses on Slavery [1826?], Liverpool Maritime Museum, Cropper Album, D/CR/12/24) AA