Newspaper clipping for Thomas Yelding circus in Wales at Merthyr
http://newspapers.library.wales/view/3284339/3284343/81/There is a huge amount of information about Thomas Yelding and his circus horsemanship by subscription at Genes Reunited
http://www.GenesReunited.co.nz/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=thomas%20yelding"THE YELDINGS
The Yeldings are another prolific circus family: their name has appeared on circus programmes all over the world for the last 100 years. Thomas Yelding, a jockey act, died just before the war while with Pagel's Circus in South Africa. He was eighty-one. His three brothers, Robert, Harry and Johnny, were also riders, Robert being distinguished for his finished displays in such scenas as "The Gambler," "The Shipwrecked Mariner," "Shaw the Lifeguardsman" and "The Indian" Harry, for some reason tiring of the family name, called himself Sloane and his two sons and two daughters, who clown on stilts, are known as the Sloane family. Johnny's three sons all performed with the Mills Circus, Tony as a rider, Claude and David as trapezists. At one performance Claude, missing a catch, fell and was killed. Bob's daughter, Eleanore, is the only English girl who performs on the sliding wire. Once she was nearly killed. This was about ten years ago when she was performing with Ray Stott's Circus. The light failed and in this emergency the circus ring was lit with the lamps of a motor car: the audience, mostly miners, shouted they couldn't see and rioted, destroying the seating and cutting the rope for the dive to death act just as Eleanor begun her slide. She crashed and sprawled in the ring, everyone thought she must be dead, but she was all right, only badly bruised." - credit to this link
http://www.twjc.co.uk/books/thecircusbook.html"Ohmy’s real name was a rather plain and ordinary one; it was Joe Smith, who came from Nottingham. He was married and had at least two children, Claude and Minnie who were both circus artistes and appeared regularly in Ohmy’s circus. Claude, while in Blackburn, lodged at 44 Mill Lane and was married to Lizzie Yelding who was a bare back rider from Nottingham. They were both interned in Germany during World War One." Lizzie Yelding was Thomas Yeldings daughter
http://www.cottontown.org/Culture%20and%20Leisure/Theatre/Pages/The-Show-Must-Go-On.aspx"Kate Hanneford the youngest of the children, married Henry Yelding, son of another well known English circus family. She had thick red hair and an eighteen inch waist, and was considered a top equestrienne. While she was appearing in Paris with Circus Medrano she was photo- graphed sitting on a horse. She was being presented a bouquet by a clown while the ring- master and her dog, Boo Boo, looked on. Her costume was quite outrageous for the time - a tutu - female riders being expected to dress modestly at that time. The interesting point about that picture is that the famous French painter, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec painted a series of circus pictures, some of which resembled the photograph. Thus, it is considered by most people that Kate is the subject of those paintings - in particular "In The Circus Fernando" circa 1888.
Kate and Henry had four children, Henry Edwin, Dolly, Millie, and John. Henry became a champion stilt walker and, under the name "Harry Sloan", came to the United States in the late 1920's to appear in the Ringling show with sister Dolly and brother John. The family still performs today. After Henry died, in 1918, Kate retired and ran a boarding house in Lowestoft, England. Each year, until her death in 1957, she traveled to London for an annual circus performers' Christmas party where she was recognized as the oldest female rider." credit to this link
http://www.hanneford.8m.com/history/earlydays.htm