page_title: Youds
section_title: Early records
hierarchical_section_title: Youds / Early records
caption_attribution_description: La Danse macabre. Paris, Guy Marchant, 1486&#160;: Un maître d'école et un homme d'armes. Illustration numérisée d'après le microfilm R 1760, Paris, BnF (Réserve des Livres rares et précieux), cote&#160;: Res Ye 189/Microfilm R 1760
context_page_description: Youds is an English surname originally from the Wirral peninsula, historically part of Cheshire.
  The name must not be confused with the similar-sounding Youd surname.
  The earliest record dates from 1434 and in 1588 the name appears in Bebington, Wirral.
context_section_description: The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be John Euddes in 1434, an English soldier stationed in Vire garrison in Normandy. He is listed as a man-at-arms on a muster roll from the Hundred Years' War with France.
  The surname next appears in 1588 recording the marriage of Richardus Yoldes & Margareta Collye in St Andrew's Church, Bebington.
  Church records there start in 1558.
  For the next 180 years the Youds name is only found on the Wirral, in villages such as Bidston, Greasby, Hoose, West Kirby etc. Around 1770 the name starts to appear also in Liverpool.
  Many variants of the surname were recorded in the 16th and 17th century, including Yewds, Yewdes, Yuedes, Yeuds, Yeudes, Yowds, Yauds, Eudes, Euddes, Eaudes, Ewds, Ewdes, Ewdds, Youlds, Yoldes, Hewds, and others.
  Today only the variant Youds is still in use.
caption: Danse Macabre - Schoolmaster and Man-at-arms, 1486
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