page_title: Yeldersley Hall, Derbyshire
section_title: The Evans family
hierarchical_section_title: Yeldersley Hall, Derbyshire / The Evans family
caption_attribution_description: English: Tithe map of Yeldersley Hall 1841
context_page_description: Yeldersley Hall is a building of historical significance in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England and is listed on the English Heritage Register. It was built in about 1800 by a wealthy landowner and was the residence of many notable people over the next two centuries. Today it is a venue for special events, particularly weddings.
context_section_description: Edmund Evans (1757-1824) built Yeldersley Hall in about 1800. He was the son of Thomas Evans (1723-1814) a banker and founder of Darley Abbey Mills. In 1783 he married Dorothy Coles, only child of Francis Coles of Birmingham and for some years they lived in Derby.
  The couple had three children but only one, Elizabeth, survived. She became a wealthy heiress as she inherited a large part of the Snelston Estate from her great uncle as well as her father's property which included Yeldersley Hall when he died in 1824.
  In 1813 she married John Harrison an Attorney and so the ownership of Yeldersley Hall passed to him. He built a large house in Snelston and therefore did not live at the Hall. Instead it was rented to wealthy tenants for many years. In 1840, Mrs Maria Butler, the widow of Ralph Butler a gentleman of Lancaster, was the tenant. By 1850 the Reverend Roger Ryland Vaughton rented the house. He is recorded in the 1851 England Census as living there with his wife Elizabeth, two daughters and three servants. He remained at the Hall until about 1861 when the house was sold to the Wright family.
caption: Map Yeldersley Hall 1841
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